Award-winning activist Robyn Ochs will share her views on identity and sexuality 7 p.m. Thursday in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center.

Ochs is presenting “Beyond Binaries: Identity and Sexuality,” focusing on how people chart sexual orientation, the interchange between gender and sexuality and the complexities of attraction among other topics.

Ochs’ is an educator, speaker, award-winning activist and editor of the “Bi Women Quarterly”, the 42-country anthology, “Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World” and the new anthology “RECOGNIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men.” Her writings have been published in numerous bi-women’s studies, multicultural and LGBT anthologies.

Ochs will begin with a workshop for faculty, staff and student leaders on the topic of “Getting Bi: Unpacking Biphobia and Creating a Culture of Inclusion.”

The workshop will focus on understanding and supporting the bisexual community on campus.

A reception will take place before the interactive discussion at 6 p.m. and is open to everyone.

The event is free and open to faculty, staff, students and the community.

Caitlin Fowlkes can be contacted at [email protected].