{"id":5480,"date":"2017-08-24T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/164554604403"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:59:43","slug":"the-bi-series-takeover-happened-on-19th-august-2017-at-the-lgbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2017\/08\/the-bi-series-takeover-happened-on-19th-august-2017-at-the-lgbt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bi Series Takeover happened on 19th August 2017, at the LGBT…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bi Series Takeover happened on 19th August 2017, at the LGBT Foundation in Manchester. \u00a0I didn\u2019t know what to expect of this event, with it coming only a week after BiCon. \u00a0During BiCon I received several emails and texts from bisexuals of colour about the poor treatment they had received at that event. \u00a0I was worried that it would be more of the same at the Takeover. \u00a0My worries were for nothing, as it was a very positive event. \u00a0I was informed that it had the same amount of bisexuals of colour in attendance as BiCon had (an event 4 times as big). \u00a0There were trans only spaces, bisexuals of colour only spaces, and it was all held in a reasonably accessible building. \u00a0The heavy rain didn\u2019t seem to put people off, as it was very well attended, with people coming from far and wide.
In the Bi\u2019s of Colour session there were discussions about recent Blackface incidents at LGBT events in Manchester and Durham, and how these insulting acts had to be challenged over and again by People of Colour. \u00a0We also spoke about the possibility of a longer Bi\u2019s of Colour event – a retreat or conference; everyone was very happy about that! \u00a0The call for submissions to the Bi\u2019s of Colour book was repeated: \u00a350 for any bisexual person of colour whose piece was accepted into the book (we haven\u2019t turned anyone down yet!). \u00a0The closing date is 21st December 2017. \u00a0If you want to know more, or submit a piece of work, contact us on bis.of.colour@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Bi Series Takeover happened on 19th August 2017, at the LGBT Foundation in Manchester.  I didn’t know what to expect of this event, with it coming only a week after BiCon.  During BiCon I received several emails and texts from bisexuals of colour about the poor treatment they had received at that event.  I was worried that it would be more of the same at the Takeover.  My worries were for nothing, as it was a very positive event.  I was informed that it had the same amount of bisexuals of colour in attendance as BiCon had (an event 4 times as big).  There were trans only spaces, bisexuals of colour only spaces, and it was all held in a reasonably accessible building.  The heavy rain didn’t seem to put people off, as it was very well attended, with people coming from far and wide.
In the Bi’s of Colour session there were discussions about recent Blackface incidents at LGBT events in Manchester and Durham, and how these insulting acts had to be challenged over and again by People of Colour.  We also spoke about the possibility of a longer Bi’s of Colour event – a retreat or conference; everyone was very happy about that!  The call for submissions to the Bi’s of Colour book was repeated: £50 for any bisexual person of colour whose piece was accepted into the book (we haven’t turned anyone down yet!).  The closing date is 21st December 2017.  If you want to know more, or submit a piece of work, contact us on bis.of.colour@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,133,192,63,31,171,455,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bipride","category-bisexuality","category-bisexuals","category-lgbt","category-manchester","category-poc","category-qtipoc","category-queer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480","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=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6026,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/6026"}],"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=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}