{"id":2113,"date":"2013-09-23T23:51:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T22:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-09-23T23:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T22:51:42","slug":"bi-visibility-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2013\/09\/bi-visibility-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi Visibility Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today i&#8217;ve been extra-alert to anyone wearing purple. Wondering whether they&#8217;ve put it on specially for Bi Visibility Day or whether it&#8217;s just that they like the colour? (or maybe it&#8217;s their laundry day and that purple t-shirt was the only clean top they had left?) It got me speculating (in a non-creepy way!) about the possible sexualities of an otherwise pretty random selection of people (not just the ones with goth-y\/hippy clothes and interesting hair &#8211; they may be popular styles at BiCon but that&#8217;s still only a small section of the wider Bi community). It&#8217;s been a useful exercise in making me aware of the assumptions I still make in spite of several years of sitting on stalls telling people to &#8220;Assume Nothing&#8221;. Any of those purple-clad people could have been bisexual &#8211; or maybe none of them were. It would be nice to think they were all allies but I know we&#8217;ve still got a way to go with that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com\/12\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com\/12\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com&#038;blog=58190445&#038;%23038;post=12&#038;%23038;subd=heartshapedpeg&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today i&rsquo;ve been extra-alert to anyone wearing purple. Wondering whether they&rsquo;ve put it on specially for Bi Visibility Day or whether it&rsquo;s just that they like the colour? (or maybe it&rsquo;s their laundry day and that purple t-shirt was the only clean top they had left?) It got me speculating (in a non-creepy way!) about [&hellip;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=heartshapedpeg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=58190445&amp;post=12&amp;subd=heartshapedpeg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,370,228,371,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assumptions","category-bi-vis-day","category-bi-visibility","category-purple","category-visibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8732,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/8732"}],"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=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}