Founder, Board Chair
Joe LeBlanc is a polyamorous Cajun qenderqueer butch who believes in personal story-telling as a significant method for people to share experiences and solidify a better understanding about LGBTQ identities, issues, and concerns. He finds joy in producing and fostering authentic connections, bringing his big butch woo wherever he goes.
Joe is a community organizer who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is honored to serve as the Board Chair for PDX Bad Girls and was recently the first Mx Oregon State Leather titleholder. Joe is a prior recipient of the Pride in Action Award with Pride Northwest in 2011, and was honored as a Queer Hero by the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest in 2016. He has developed and presented workshops at various conferences on issues around identity, community building, event planning, and advocating for trans-inclusive health care. Joe also enjoys road trips, coffee, taking way too many pictures, and a wide variety of music. He can usually be found wearing a bow tie and with a clipboard in his hand.
Board Members
Koja Adeyoha is a two-spirit, mixed-blood Lakota, stone-butch dyke, activist, socialist, a staunch feminist, atheist and skeptic.
Koja is a former competitive surfer with strong ties to the Mni (Water), the lessons it brings, and the stories it tells. She’s worked in Emergency Medical Services and the Fire Department for nearly 20 years and educates across the country in wide-ranging ways: from critical incident management, to consensual power differentials and dynamics, and economic and racial justice. Koja is also the creator of the “Dykes Only Space” at San Francisco Dyke March and former Key-Note and long-time presenter for BUTCH Voices. Her most current passion projects are around RTS (Religious Trauma Syndrome), CPTSD (Complex PTSD), addiction and the integration therein of sexual liberation and harm reduction.
These days, she can be found getting her hands dirty, reading apocalyptic science fiction, drumming, forever singing Indigo Girls, and obsessively practicing Pilates, self-restraint and radical truth. Koja believes strongly that the personal, is political and her work reflects that credence.
Michelle Dixon is an Afro Latina butch lesbian of Panamanian descent, born in Miami but raised in California. Michelle has worked in the construction industry as a Project Manager for 20 years in and around the Bay Area. She has an established career of activism within the LGBTQIAA community from having served as Board Vice President at the Pacific Center in Berkeley, to being one of the early moderators for the Lesbians of Color group.
Currently, she co-hosts a podcast, Two Libras And A Shot of Tequila, serves on the Board for the San Francisco Dyke March, in addition to being an author, public speaker, and entrepreneur.
In her free time, Michelle is an avid angler, traveling the waters wherever the current flows, spends time with family, or continues to challenge and call out blatant injustices on any of the social media platforms.
Laine Campbell is a butch lesbian and trans woman, born in Louisiana, and currently living in San Francisco. Laine is a self-taught software engineer and has worked in tech for 25 years. She has also been an entrepreneur and company founder, and is a published author in her field. Laine is passionate around diversity and inclusion, and access to the workforce for underrepresented communities. She is an active coach, mentor, and representative for trans folks, LGBT communities, and women in the workforce, and is a well known speaker in the industry. One of her greatest professional experiences was running the databases for the 2012 Obama campaign.
Outside of work, Laine enjoys travel, queer community, cigars, music, and dancing. She’s grateful for community, chosen family, and loved ones to share her life with, and is eager to continue to surround herself with amazing people, and to support and join them in their fights for racial, socioeconomic, sexual, and gender justice.
Tiff Hubbard is a Los Angeles based artist and poet. She was born on the island of Oahu in Hawaii but spent most of her time growing up in Colorado. Tiffany’s passion for writing poetry stems from learning to embrace the duality of her different backgrounds as an African, Asian, and American woman. Her love of hip hop and lyricism is what creates Tiff’s unique sound and cadence. Her hope is that through her work, she will inspire, educate, and move people forward in a world where it can be easy to feel left behind. Her most recent collaboration, was with the Los Angeles LGBT Center for the annual ‘Models of Pride Event’, that aims to help young students feel safe and welcomed in the community.
She is a two time Slam Poetry Competition Winner at Da Poetry Lounge located in West Hollywood. Tiffany loves to talk astrology and expand her collection of house plants. She recently released her debut poetry book, “Short Poems From a Short Love” in March 2021. For more details you can check out her website tiffhubbard.com or follow her on Instagram @tiff.hubbard.