{"id":117,"date":"2010-08-17T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=c39dee46d44b4304a807f0badf6894f7"},"modified":"2010-08-17T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:34:28","slug":"blogging-bisexuality-at-bicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2010\/08\/blogging-bisexuality-at-bicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging bisexuality at BiCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, the gaps between posts on here are getting longer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite hard to keep up the momentum when there&#8217;s so very much else to do. In particular, I have my MA to hand in, in just over three weeks time. That&#8217;s 20,000 words I am paying to write!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in the meantime I am giving a talk on 26th August at BiRecon, the academic\/research part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicon2010.org.uk\/bicon\/about-icb\/\">BiCon<\/a> &#8211; the UK annual gathering of bi people that this year is both held in London and is an International BiCon too, with people from many countries attending. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BiCon_(UK)\">wikipedia<\/a> site on the history of BiCons which made me downright nostalgic.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I have some questions:<\/p>\n<p>Do you, or have you, used blogs as part of coming out as bi? If so, was it helpful? Do you write a blog yourself about coming out bi? If so, what sort of impact has it had? If you blogged about bisexuality, but have now stopped blogging, why did you stop?<\/p>\n<p>If you could let me know &#8211; either here, or at sues_new_email at yahoo dot com &#8211; sooner, rather than later, I&#8217;d be ever so grateful.<\/p>\n<p>xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, the gaps between posts on here are getting longer.It&#8217;s quite hard to keep up the momentum when there&#8217;s so very much else to do. In particular, I have my MA to hand in, in just over three weeks time. That&#8217;s 20,000 words I am paying to wr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,110,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","category-events","category-research-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}