{"id":9011,"date":"2021-06-16T09:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisofcolour.home.blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2021-06-16T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T08:01:57","slug":"goodbye-from-bis-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2021\/06\/goodbye-from-bis-of-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye from Bi\u2019s of Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Goodbye from Bi\u2019s of Colour<\/p>\n

Bi\u2019s of Colour was formed at BiCon London in 2010 – a year after a racist incident before BiCon 2009 by one of the organisers.\u00a0 A few of us talked that year about what it would look like to have a safer space for the minority within a minority at the longest running bisexual event in the world. Back then there were only five bisexuals of colour in attendance at BiCon in Worcester, but the following year there were many more.\u00a0 Twelve of us sat in a room, shared, cried and made connections.\u00a0 It was the start of something special. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jacq produced the Bi\u2019s of Colour History report in 2015; the first of its kind to look in detail at our lives.\u00a0https:\/\/bisexualresearch.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/bis-of-colour-survey-report.pdf<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0We are often erased in studies about Black people, and we are also erased in studies about LGBT+ people too.\u00a0 We are very proud that the information is out there now.<\/p>\n

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We spent the next decade bringing the world information about our lives; providing practical support to our members, and having stalls at LGBT+ events where we sadly faced biphobia and racism in droves. But we also found our white allies who supported us and spoke up when others tried to silence us.\u00a0 We owe a debt of gratitude to those people who did not look the other way, who helped us raise funds, and who spread the word about our work. Special thanks go to UNISON, the trade union who helped us produce a lot of our physical media, Leeds Bi group and BiPride who were supportive during rough times.\u00a0\u00a0The death of Nila, one of our founders, has added to our sadness of closing, but Nila wanted us to go out with something solid, and was actively involved with this event.<\/p>\n

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Bi\u2019s of Colour is now closed, but as a parting gift to our members, we are offering them free books on bisexuality – of their own choosing, up to the value of \u00a350 per person. We have a link to Wordery (https:\/\/wordery.com\/search?term=Bisexuality<\/a>) , a more ethical alternative to Amazon. Choose your bi books, email us at\u00a0bisofcolour@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0with the details and your address.\u00a0We will do the rest.<\/p>\n

This book gift is for bi+ folks who are Black or people of colour in the UK only. There is no cash alternative.<\/p>\n

We also have provisional plans for a send off picnic\/meal in the Manchester area soon. We will keep everyone posted on this.<\/p>\n

Please share this widely.<\/p>\n

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Goodbye from Bi\u2019s of Colour Bi\u2019s of Colour was formed at BiCon London in 2010 \u2013 a year after a racist incident before BiCon 2009 by one of the organisers.\u00a0 A few of us talked that year about what it would look like to have a safer space for the minority within a minority at \u2026 Continue reading Goodbye from Bi\u2019s of\u00a0Colour<\/span> \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions\/9378"}],"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=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}