Bonnie’s Bio

Bonnie is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, where she studies French, English, German, and Latin with an emphasis on gender/sexuality, surrealism, fin de siècle decadence, Sade, perversion, and new media — and where she works with, among many inspiring professors, preeminent feminist theorist Judith Butler.

Bonnie is also a (now part-time) professional sex tech and video game journalist. Over the past five years she has regularly written features, columns, and blogs for important publications like The Village Voice, The Economist, Forbes, and many more.

Her journalistic specialties include: sex/gender issues in tech, new media, video game culture, virtual worlds, the online porn industry, adult interactive content, cybersex, and online dating. In her columns, she frequently takes an experimental, first-hand approach to understanding contemporary sexuality. In the past she has also been a presenter at alternative tech conferences and a member of the Women in Games International Steering Committee.

Go here for a full list of her journalistic articles, or check out the archives of Heroine Sheik, her (now-retired) Village Voice blog on sex tech and video games. Copies of her academic essays will soon be available here on Our Glass Lake

In 2007 Bonnie received her undergraduate degree in creative writing, literature, and gender/sexuality from Bard College. She aspires to be both a passionate analyst and an artist (i.e. professor and writer), and is working hard to infuse her own scholarship with a hefty dose of creativity and chutzpah.

Ask her about: her intense sex nerdiness, i.e. her antique vibrator collection and her stash of first-editions of Histoire d’O; her obstinate redhead pride; her amorous devotion to Strunk and White; her year spent in France teaching hooligans the English word for “pine cone;” her belief in supporting LGBT and kink communities; the fact that — at any given time — she would really rather be on the water (books and electronics, beware).

You can reach Bonnie at [her first name and last name, all one big word] at gmail.