BiCities! #293 Melinda Brown @BECAUSE Conference 2019: Bi+ Identity and Activism in Nashville
Channel: Bi Cities!
Date: 2019-11-17

BiCities! ventured beyond the studio this past October to film on location at the Bisexual Organizing Project's annual BECAUSE Conference in St. Paul. There, we spoke with many presenters, organizers, and attendees, who come from all over the country and the world. In addition to our twice-monthly, half-hour episodes, we will be uploading these shorter-form interviews intermittently.

Our first interview is with Melinda Brown, who is the women and gender studies librarian at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She spoke with us about her own experiences of Bi+ identity and activism in Nashville as well as the workshop she presented at BECAUSE on ways for organizations and activists to cultivate genuine inclusion of marginalized communities within their spaces.

The BECAUSE Conference, which stands for "Bisexual Empowerment Conference, A Uniting Supportive Experience," is the annual conference of the Bisexual Organizing Project, dedicated to building an empowered bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, and unlabeled (bi+) community in the United States. BECAUSE 2020 will be held October 2-4 at the Wellstone Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. For more information, visit www.becauseconference.org.