Gloria

CSPC Board Member

Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti (she/her) is a Black femme cisgender elder. She is also a poet, presenter and keynote speaker, panelist, frequent podcast guest, and breast cancer survivor. In fact, it was the cancer diagnosis in 2013 that caused her to realize how short life is; this served as the catalyst that caused her to come out, LOUD AND PROUD, as sex-positive, bisexual, and polyamorous.

Gloria has been a member of the CSPC since 2006 and considers herself "...a Switch, but more frequently a bottom (NOT a submissive or a slave)." She was one of the founders of the Wednesday night sex-focused party called "The Hump." She is also one of the co-hosts of CSPC's Neurodivergent Discussion Group and More Amore: A Consensual Nonmonogamy Discussion Group. She has frequently volunteered in the Festival Store at the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival (SEAF); but in April 2022, for the first time, she was asked to be one of the judges! (Of course, she accepted.)

Gloria has practiced polyamory/non-monogamy since the late 1980s. She has presented on polyamory ("Polyamory 101: From Threesomes to WE-SOMES!" and just plain old "Poly 101") and has sat in on polyamory/nonmonogamy panels at high schools/colleges and conferences. In fact, one of her fondest memories took place in early 2016, when she presented with Allena Gabosch as part of a Poly Panel for three Human Sexuality classes in a row on the same day, at Highline College in Des Moines, WA. She has two long-term partners, as well as a "platonic love" and other sweeties under consideration. Gloria practices Solo Polyamory.

Since 2017, Gloria has been a presenter on such subjects as shame ("Transcending Shame"), intersectionality ("We Do Not Live Single-Issue Lives"), polyamory (as mentioned above), and also presents a keynote speech titled, "What Do I Bring to a Relationship?"

Gloria’s articles have been published in the Bi Women's Quarterly, and two of her poems were selected for the King County Metro "Poetry on Buses" program. Since the summer of 2020, she's been hard at work on her memoir entitled, "A Different Drum: A Black, Autistic, Polyamorous, Mentally Ill, Former Fundamentalist Christian/Cult Member and Breast Cancer Survivor WHO JUST WANTS TO FIT IN."

Email: gloria@theCSPC.org

FetLife: GloriaJN