{"id":9489,"date":"2026-10-08T12:33:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2026\/10\/why-bi-spaces-matter\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:33:46","slug":"why-bi-spaces-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2026\/10\/why-bi-spaces-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bi Spaces Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At our October Talky Space one of the things that came up was bi spaces \u2013 things like Talky Space itself and our other meets as well as events like Bi Pride or the BiFests we used to run in the 00s.<\/p>\n<p>They included<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not having to defend bisexuality being real or your right to the label<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s where you can take off the masks you wear in gay and straight spaces<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s better than getting angry about biphobia on your own<\/li>\n<li>Finding commonality of bi experiences<\/li>\n<li>Many even \u2018queer\u2019 groups and spaces just perpetuate biphobia in practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who came along and shared their experiences and ideas on that and many other topics including dating apps, maintaining your bi identity while becoming a parent, and bisexuality on TV \u2013 all on a Wednesday night!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our October Talky Space one of the things that came up was bi spaces \u2013 things like Talky Space itself and our other meets as well as events like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/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=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}