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Video of a speech on “Bi erasure”
Seven minutes of me talking mostly about bi erasure, with subtitles and timings, plus some back-story in the blog post.
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Sighing for the Summer
Remember how a few years back Katy Perry earwormed everyone for a couple of months with the titillating "try-bi" fluff that was "I kissed a girl and I liked it / hope my boyfriend don't mind it"?It seems we're there again with a hyped new single from D...
July update
Bi meets, Prides, BiCon, the marriage referendum in Ireland and more...Our July email bulletin is out, and it's online here
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Why it’s hard to identify as bisexual
Misconceptions and stereotypes about bisexuality are common in our society, and serve to delegitimate bisexuality as a valid sexual identity. That’s why so many people who are bisexual in orientation choose not to identify as such. There are many benefits to identifying as bisexual, but most people only do so when they’ve built enough confidence […]
Posted incoming out identity society wellbeing
Why it’s hard to identify as bisexual
Misconceptions and stereotypes about bisexuality are common in our society, and serve to delegitimate bisexuality as a valid sexual identity. That’s why so many people who are bisexual in orientation choose not to identify as such. There are many benefits to identifying as bisexual, but most people only do so when they’ve built enough confidence […]
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Appropriate Behaviour (Film)
Last month I went to a screening of Appropriate Behaviour held by the Reel Equality Film Club at The Broadway Cinema in Nottingham. The film is very unique in a number of ways. It’s written and directed by a woman (Desiree Akhavan). The lead character (Shirin) is a woman. In fact most of the main characters are women, … Continue reading Appropriate Behaviour (Film) →
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Appropriate Behaviour (Film)
Last month I went to a screening of Appropriate Behaviour held by the Reel Equality Film Club at The Broadway Cinema in Nottingham. The film is very unique in a number of ways. It’s written and directed by a woman (Desiree Akhavan). The lead character (Shirin) is a woman. In fact most of the main characters are women, … Continue reading Appropriate Behaviour (Film) →
London LGBT Pride, Part Two: The rubbish bit
UKIP, a fascist political party has its own LGBT group. They applied and were accepted to march with the Pride parade in June. However, there was a bit of a backlash from LGBT PoC and others, who said a hate group had no place at Pride. Pride had accepted the inclusion of this group without telling anyone on their Advisory Board about it, including me as the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic member’s representative. I was so disgusted at this underhand tactic that I resigned my post. I wanted nothing to do with an even where UKIP would appear.
As a result of this, and heaps of bad publicity, London Pride issued a statement saying that UKIP’s LGBT group would no longer march in the parade, due to “safety concerns”
All of this came to nothing when UKIP’s LGBT group crashed the parade, pushing their way past the Lesbian and Gay Immigration group. For more info on this see: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/ukip-sneaks-march-pride-london270615
I would never have attended Pride if I had known a hate group would be in the march, that wants to see people like me dead. I feel as if London LGBT Pride has once again, screwed over People of Colour, in allowing this entire debacle to happen. There were hundreds of stewards and police along the parade route; why did they do nothing when this incident occured?
Because they don’t care about us.
At the start of the parade, a man protested over Barclay’s Bank being present (and at the front). He was wrestled to the ground by a Pride steward, and then arrested by the police. The same people did nothing when UKIP barged in. That group hadn’t paid a marching fee, and they hadn’t signed the code of conduct agreement. Many small charities had to pay to be part of the parade, but UKIP got in for free by shoving black people out of the way.
I am incredibly upset about this. So I’m going to cheer myself up by looking at Part One of this, over on the Bi’s of Colour site: http://bisofcolour.tumblr.com/post/122742976253/london-lgbt-pride-part-one-nice-bits-i-attended
