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About Margaret RobinsonAcademic InterestsI am a doctoral student at Regis College, at the University of Toronto. My area of specialization is sexual ethics. My research interests include: sexual ethics, gender roles, relationship dynamics, religious prejudice (especially anti-Judaism), and class issues. My methodology is eclectic. I'm interested in postmodernism, feminism, queer theory, and critical theory. I am currently writing my dissertation on the role of monogamy and polyamory in bisexual women’s identity. Between September and December of 2006 I surveyed forty women in the Toronto area about their bisexuality. Academic History
Background
I am a member of Generation X, and a third wave feminist. The year I turned sixteen also saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, the crash of the Exxon Valdez, tanks rolling over students in Tienanmen Square, and the Montreal Massacre. My first sexual education class included a discussion about AIDS. The year I came out as bisexual the World Health Organization removed “homosexual” from their list of diseases, Nelson Mandela was freed from prison, and the world wide web was invented. I can't take credit for any of that. Most of my non-school time is spent with my partner, Mr. Pugh. We have two cats named Archie and Nero. In my spare time I write, paint, sew my own clothes, and try to change the world. Activist WorkI am director and treasurer of the Toronto Bisexuality Education Project. TBEP is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the bisexual community in Toronto. In 2006 we organized and hosted the 9th International Conference on Bisexuality, Sexuality and Gender Diversity. We in 2007 we gave grants to the Toronto Bisexual Network and provided financial and practical assistance to organizing 10ICB.
Coming Out into Activism I came out in Halifax in the early 1990s. My university didn't have a queer student group, so I joined the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Project organized by Maura Donovan and run out the the Planned Parenthood office on Quinpool Road. This group had very few bisexual members, but they showed me how to be an activist. With the Youth Project I gave day seminars on homophobia and heterosexism at high schools and universities across the province and worked on Outline, a toll-free hotline for queer youth. I later vollunteered with Halifax Pride before moving to Toronto to pursue my Masters Degree. Toronto Dyke March
Committee (1997-2001) Pride Toronto
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