Bringing bisexual voices together
Join us before the Pride in London Parade for a bisexual community breakfast before joining the Bi Pride marching group, or going to watch the parade. Hot drinks and fruit juice provided. Allies welcome. FREE ADMISSION
Fitzrovia Centre, 2 Foley Street, London W1W 6DL
09:30 to 11:00
8th July 2017
There will be a bisexual picnic at the very nice, very accessible Kingston upon Thames Quaker Centre. This is the same place that hosted the last London BiFest, and it was lovely!
UK Black Pride is happening on Sunday 9th July in London. Black Pride isn’t the most inclusive place for bisexuals, but don’t let that put you off if you’re able. It’s a one-of-a-kind event for black, asian, and minority ethnic LGBT+ folk in the UK.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
