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I got into doing workshops when I was 16. At first they were mostly about ageism and adultism, then I started doing a few on sex education and how it is taught. It was important to me to get the chance to share and discuss the roles identity, privilege, and oppression play in each of the subjects I teach about. I've done workshops on dozens of topics now, and have always enjoyed them. Sometimes I've done the same workshop several times, yet I'm always happy to develop new workshops for specific purposes or audiences when I get the chance. That's probably why I've developed so many unique workshops over the years.
Other Presentations
While I've always focused on workshops, I've also done a wide variety of different kinds of presentations as well. I've presented guest lectures, done panel presentations, and done readings. I can do most of those on any of the topics below as well. Contact me for details.
A Word about Intersectionality
Workshops are often requested to focus on a specific
topic. Usually I work along issues of oppression and
intersecting oppressions, focusing on issues of sexual
orientation, gender identity, race, age, and specific
identities such as pansexual, genderqueer, and multiracial
identities. When speaking of my own experience, I
cannot separate out the various identities that I hold.
For example, I can't address the entirety of my experience
as queerspawn without discussing the race politics involved
in being a product of transracial insemination. And I
wouldn't be giving an accurate representation of trans
issues if I did not highlight my middle-class privilege and
discuss the issues that come up for transpeople without the
same resources that I have.
Workshop
Topics
I've done workshops on many different topics over
the years. The more creative and specific a topic is,
the more I enjoy thinking it through, preparing it, and
presenting it. Here are
some examples of workshop topics I've enjoyed working on
recently. (Also, if you check out any of my current
writings you can find topics that I am currently exploring
and would love an opportunity to present on.)
Trans
--Trans 101: The basics
--Non-binary gender: What does it look like?
--Trans Health and Medical Access
--Not being "Trans Enough"
--Trans Sexuality
Queerspawn
--A Queerspawn Perspective
--Queerspawn and the media
--Queerspawn and coming out
Language
--New Labels, No Labels: Why Isn't LGBT Enough?
--Alternative Identification and Effective Outreach
Activism
--Erotica as Activism (and Education)
--Creating an Oppression Aware (a.k.a. "Safe and
Welcoming") Space
--Navigating Gender Specific Spaces and Gender Diversity
--Radical Queer Anti-Assimilation
And All the Rest
are in my Curriculum Vitae
I put together this
Curriculum Vitae a couple of years ago. It mostly
outlines my earlier workshop presentation history. The work I have been
doing more recently is detailed in the pages above.
Book Tobi
If you're interested in scheduling me for a speaking
engagement, lecture, workshop, or reading please email
Contact me for details about my honorarium, availability, or how I might fit into your goals. I'm happy to create unique presentations that fit issues or concerns your group would like me to address. I used to do event coordinating for my campus' LGBTQA student group, so I know what it's like from that end of things, and I try to be as easy to work with as possible, though things are always easier the farther in advance you contact me.