There are a few bisexual projects that I think would be good for other people, but aren’t for me. I’ll give some examples later.
I have some capability to help with contacts, possibly money, infrastructure, possibly advice etc. and I know others in community who have similar.
Some groups of people get less privilege in the world than I do and I worry that if I were to run something for them, I could be compounding my own power and could be doing so at the expense of theirs, or doing what I think needs doing from a position of ignorance or power-over.
Ideally, I’d like to get out of the way and let the people the projects are for self-organise them or offer help as and when asked or hand over resources. Thing is, I don’t see those projects happening right now. Should I help make space for them to happen? If so, how do I do that well? If not, should I just focus my ideas and energy elsewhere and leave the field open?
Examples would be:
A previous event for younger bisexuals, Baby BiCon, I am told went very well. I look at the demographics of the organised bit of the bi community that I see and I don’t see many young people. I wonder what an event would look like for younger bi adults or for children. Youth workers I think are good at facilitating young people to do projects when younger people might not have the capability or confidence to do them them themselves. I’m not a youth worker. Are there younger bi adults who would like to make bi stuff happen but who have barriers to doing so made by the rest of the world, or by the bi community as we get more “official” or set in our ways? I’m not in the youngest groups of bisexuals. Could / should I help make something happen for them?
There is a new Bisexuals of Colour group [YAY!]. I live in a city with a larger non-white population than many. I’m part of local and national infrastructure organisations. There have been local LGBT Black and Minority Ethnic groups and also various groups for people of different ethnicity in my city and they continue to evolve. There are a number of bi folks I know locally including people who have organised bi stuff many years ago or recently. Health workers tell me they meet a substantial number of non-white bisexually behaved people who don’t access bi community or some parts of LGBT communities. So do I live in a city where a local bisexuals of colour thing would be good? If so, could or should I help make that happen as a white person?
Thoughts?
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