Blogging in Shadows – Page 6

Help me attend this bisexual conference!I’ve been a bisexual…

Help me attend this bisexual conference!

I’ve been a bisexual activist for over 20 years. I’ve campaigned widely across the UK and Continental Europe for better treatment and visibility of bisexual people of colour. I’d love to go to BECAUSE, but airfare is ridiculously expensive from the UK to the US.

Please donate at Paypal.me/ACrystalGem and help me go! However if I don’t raise enough, all money will be put toward the B’is of Colour book fund http://bisofcolour.tumblr.com/post/152552451453/bis-of-colour-book-edited-by-asha-jacq-and-nila.

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I made this little zine at Bent Fest earlier in the year. I…

I made this little zine at Bent Fest earlier in the year. I hope it gives you some encouragement to create your own zines. I used a pattern similar to this to make my mini zine. http://experimentwithnature.com/03-found/experiment-with-paper-how-to-make-a-one-page-zine/#.WVUPx7Eo-hA

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London Zine fairs ahoy!This Saturday 1st July, Exchange Zine…

London Zine fairs ahoy!

This Saturday 1st July, Exchange Zine fair: http://penfightdistro.com/zine-event/exchange-zine-fair/

Saturday 15th July, Weirdo Zine fest: http://penfightdistro.com/zine-event/weirdo-zine-fest-at-sutton-house/

Wanna get hold of Drunken Bible Stories, or the A-Z of Biphobia? Come along to these zine fairs, where I’ll have these goodies and more!

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The B in LGBT+ doesn’t stand for Blank. Yet so many times I see…

The B in LGBT+ doesn’t stand for Blank. Yet so many times I see events big and small, who have the acronym LGBT, but with zero bisexual input.

“We don’t ask our guests/panelists/speakers sexual orientation,” is something that’s only ever said in response to questions about the lack of bi representation.

“No bisexuals approached us,” is only said when all the letters except B are represented at events.

I can’t imagine a world where someone would run a Pride event, and say “Sorry, no gay groups contacted us, so there won't be any marching in the parade. Yet this is exactly what London Pride has done (2 years after they let the hate-group, UKIP march).

Pride used to be something that excited me, but it hass joined the long list of places that are racist and biphobic - places I don’t want anything to do with. And as an isolated alienated person, that just stinks.

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Fat people with visible scars of disfigurementsFat people who…

Fat people with visible scars of disfigurements

Fat people who survived abuse/violence & have mental/internal scars

Fat women/femmes who don’t wear, or can’t access make up

Fat women/femmes who are bald or balding

Fat women/femmes who aren’t hourglass or pear shaped

Fat people who are older

Fat people who can’t afford or can’t access the latest fashions

Fat people who are super-fat/super-sized

Fat people who are genderqueer or nonbinary

Fat people of colour who live outside of North America

Fat people who are disabled

Fat people with multiple oppressions

Fat liberation is for you too. You will probably never see yourself reflected in anything, mainstream or alternative. You will probably feel let down by body positivity and fat positivity. But you count. You matter.

You don’t have to take crap off of people just b/c they say they are “concerned”. It’s ok to be fat.

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None of these concerned strangers is ever concerned about the mental health implications of being constantly subjected to sigma, so excuse me if I don’t believe in your fake concern.

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Tattoo reads, “When words become inadequate, I shall be content…

Tattoo reads, “When words become inadequate, I shall be content with silence”.

There are words waiting: a poem

My fingers, pink side up

Hold stories made of gestures,

Signs and twirls.

The whorls

Of each fingerprint start a chapter, a Sign Language tale.

Violence made me mute when I was younger;

It still returns as an adult - the silence

I surrender

To a fractured part inside my soul.

Another name, another author

Of my life takes hold.

And when I stare at my palms, the lines,

So fractured, divides

Into several paths, many lives

I have carried:

A library of personalities tallied.

My fingers move, my body remembers

Trees towering above me

And a book burning

As another part of me rises from the embers.

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A little blackout poetry on being a recovering alcoholic,…

A little blackout poetry on being a recovering alcoholic, knowing how damaging booze is to me, but still wanting to drink.

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bisofcolour: For those who need screen readers, the poster…

bisofcolour:

For those who need screen readers, the poster reads:

Still unheard Out There

Making Rainbows through the prism of LGBTQI+ diversity

Friday 30th June pm, LVSC, 200a Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP

An event about under-represented LGBT voices. The stories and priorities of intersex, bisexual, pansexual and intersectional LGBTQI+ people in London. WWE have a small budget for speakers.

Email HEARcampains@reap.org.uk for information and to book your place.

This will be a free event!

bisofcolour: The B’is of Colour History Report has been…

bisofcolour:

The B’is of Colour History Report has been reprinted as a full-colour A5 booklet, just in time for Pride season!

If you would like some free copies for your stall at Pride or any other event that needs bisexual visibility, email us at bis.of.colour@gmail.com and we can send some out to you. We have a limited budget, so we can only send a small amount outside the United Kingdom (overseas postage is wicked-expensive), but give us an email and we will try to sort something out.