Robin Lowey // Robin Lowey, Speaker, author, filmmaker, and historian, Robin Lowey seeks to elevate the discourse in our country about the role lesbian history plays in advancing LGBTQ+ civil rights and social equity. As a pioneering queer parent and an activist, Robin’s work focuses on LGBTQ+ achievements that have advanced a more inclusive society as well as on the unmet needs of a culture that continues to oppress queer people.
Author of Game Changers: Lesbians You Should Now About www.lesbiangamechangers.com
An award-winning graphic designer and writer, Robin is the founder of Epochalips.com and has been Editor-in-Chief since 2010. Her writing has appeared in The Advocate, Lesbian.com, and Epochalips.com. Honored in Go Magazine’s 100 Women We Love issue, Robin was a featured speaker at Talks at Google and the Michelle Meow Show on The CW Network. She is a member of the LGBT Speakers Bureau. Robin’s work donating 300 Game Changers books to local Bay Area schools was covered on CBS news during their Pride Special Report. Creative Director, Robin Lowey Branding + Design. Member of Spectrum LGBT Speakers Bureau. Surfer, snowboarder, hiker and Mother of two beautiful grown boys.
The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen
This is the story about a young black girl who came of age during the Jim Crow era in the 1940s and 50s in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and how her early home life and experiences influenced her passions, mission and strategies for survival over six decades. I am inspired by Angela’s story in The Passionate Pursuits […]
Blurring Gender Lines
I met andogynous model Rain Dove and enterpreneur Abby Sugar at last month’s Queer Fashion Week. I was immediately struck by the important work they were doing—breaking down gender stereotypes, and taking the world by storm in their different ways. Then came this! Challenging normative assumptions of gender presentation, femininity and what it means to […]
Don’t Miss Dee Rees’ ‘BESSIE’ on HBO
I was invited to Frameline‘s preview showing of HBO’s upcoming film Bessie by Dee Rees and starring Queen Latifah at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland last night. The theater was packed with lesbians including myself, Jan Corran, Eleanor Palacios and Miz Chris De la Rosa. Bessie Smith was a baddass and Queen Latifah is […]
Lesbian Travelers on ‘The Royal Road’
In the opening moments of the film The Royal Road, Jenni Olson‘s narrative voice speaks softly against the backdrop of a beautiful scene of the San Francisco Bay: “I’m inordinately obsessed with the stories of others, seeking within them the key to my sharing my own. I want to tell you a story about love […]
Gays and Lesbians Go ‘Wild’ in Africa
Jody Cole fell in love with Africa in 1998 and started sharing her love of Africa with groups in 2004. Her passion, love and respect for this continent is evident in every aspect of the trips she plans. Jody’s goal is to give you an intimate, informed, one-of-a-kind vacation. From the plants and animals to […]
Inside Oakland’s Queer Fashion Week
The first ever Queer Fashion Week exploded this past weekend at four different venues in Oakland, a town that knows how to celebrate queer culture. Miz Chris, of Eden and fiveTEN Oakland Events fame took on this incredible feat, and pulled it off seamlessly. I can’t even begin to describe the excitement and fresh creative […]
Get ‘Rocked by Women’ this Mother’s Day!
Supporting our local queer culture is important to me, so when I heard about Rocked By Women, a multimedia dance performance by Sarah Bush Dance Project coming to Oakland on May 9 and 10th, I reached out to my friend Sarah Bush to tell us what this show means to her: “The show is a […]
Don’t Miss Queer Fashion Week in Oakland
Queer Fashion Week is the brainchild of Miz Chris, one of the preeminent producers of queer events in the US. The mission of Queer Fashion Week is to showcase designers, hairstylists and makeup artists who are creating fashion for all types of bodies and genders. I’m so excited for this event! I LOVE QUEER FASHION […]
Women on a Roll Go to Ireland/Scotland!
I recently met up with Ms. Meyerson and her darling rescue terrier Molly in their spacious Culver City offices. Andrea has so much going on in her world, it’s hard to keep up! Her new film project Clambake (about the history of Provincetown’s Women’s Week, and celebrating the WW 30th anniversary) is now in the […]
Don’t Miss Gay Historical Film ‘The Circle’
Just before Halloween this year, The Circle, the gay movie that is Switzerland’s official submission for a Best Foreign Picture Oscar Nomination, was being screened in Kiev’s iconic theatre Cinema Zhovten as part of on an LGBT Film Series. Anti-LGBT protests, and the burning of pride flags took place outside, but during the next screening […]
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