National LGBT Cancer Network: People

Grover Wehman

• Grover Wehman, a white working-class butch living in North Carolina, has been a writer, educator and community activist for over 10 years.
• Grover holds a BFA in writing and assists with fundraising through grant writing for the National National LGBT Cancer Network.
• Grover worked as a sexual health educator from 2000-2002 at New York University, educating students, staff and doctors on sexual health and pleasure, LGBT health and sexuality. She also worked as a sex educator for Toys in Babeland, a lesbian-owned feminist sex store.
• Grover worked for seven years as an advocate and care provider for adults with autism and mental retardation.
• Grover teaches workshops at universities and community organizations around the country on economic justice, resisting class assimilation, butch privilege and misogyny, and creating trans-inclusive activist spaces.
• Grover is a performer and writer. Her theatre work has appeared at The Transgendered Theatre Festival and the International Drag King Extravaganza. Her essays have appeared in anthologies and publications including "Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Identity and Sexuality," "The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing", PUSH Magazine and Hip Mama Magazine.