{"id":3015,"date":"2015-10-30T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/132211034393"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:15:10","slug":"i-spoke-at-queer-black-spaces-3-last-night-a-rare-lgbt-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/10\/i-spoke-at-queer-black-spaces-3-last-night-a-rare-lgbt-event\/","title":{"rendered":"I spoke at Queer Black Spaces 3 last night; a rare LGBT+ event…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I spoke at Queer Black Spaces 3 last night; a rare LGBT+ event in Black History Month. \u00a0During the event I listened to other Artists of Colour as they spoke about erasure of Queer people of colour in recent history, and how important archives are. \u00a0I was taken with just how much of history there is in the past 40 years, and how quickly people forget that we have even been present in that short space of time. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Ajamu\u2019s (pictured above with the cap) history quiz was fun, but it was obvious from all the wrong answers people gave, that little is known about UK Black LGBT+ History. \u00a0It particularly\u00a0reminded me of how vital Bi\u2019s of Colour (www.bisofcolour.tumblr.com<\/a>) is, and how I really want Stage 3 of the Bi\u2019s of Colour History Project to be fully funded. \u00a0So if you want to make a donation to this work, please visit www.gofundme.com\/bochistory\u00a0<\/a><\/b>and help ensure that Bisexuals of Colour are never forgotten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I spoke at Queer Black Spaces 3 last night; a rare LGBT+ event in Black History Month.  During the event I listened to other Artists of Colour as they spoke about erasure of Queer people of colour in recent history, and how important archives are.  I was taken with just how much of history there is in the past 40 years, and how quickly people forget that we have even been present in that short space of time.  <\/p>\n

Ajamu’s (pictured above with the cap) history quiz was fun, but it was obvious from all the wrong answers people gave, that little is known about UK Black LGBT+ History.  It particularly reminded me of how vital Bi’s of Colour (www.bisofcolour.tumblr.com<\/a>) is, and how I really want Stage 3 of the Bi’s of Colour History Project to be fully funded.  So if you want to make a donation to this work, please visit www.gofundme.com\/bochistory <\/a><\/b>and help ensure that Bisexuals of Colour are never forgotten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,115,415,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bisexuality","category-history","category-lgbtqia","category-queer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/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=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}