[Ontario, Canada]: As you may know, the data collection period for the Risk & Resilience: Bisexual Mental Health in Ontario is coming to a close.
This is our chance to get data about our community, and our health. Do the survey, pass it on. Please share this notice with your friends, networks, organizations and communities.
Hello! You are invited to participate in a research study about the life experiences of Bisexual Women, with the purpose of gaining information on identity and body image.
Participation in this study is limited to Women/Female-identified People who Identify As Bisexual [Ed Note: people who self-identify as queer, unlabeled, or otherwise non-monosexual but also associate with the phrase “bisexual” are welcome to participate], Reside in North America, and are 18 Years of Age or Older. This study is being conducted by a team of diverse LGBTQ affirming researchers at Columbia University and the University of Florida. This study has been approved by the Teachers College IRB (#12-378).For each participant who completes the survey, $1 will be donated to the Trevor Project. Please feel free to pass this link on to other bisexual women!
Please Note: The principals for this research state that they are familiar with/agree with “Guidelines for Researching and Writing About Bisexuality”, “Best Practices for researchers dealing with the bisexual community”, et. al.
Transcending Boundaries Conference (TBC) is a weekend long Conference/Event where we discuss issues around gender, sex, sexuality and relationships, specifically those that don’t fit into conventional cisgender heteronormativity categories. The focus of the conference is our ever-evolving communities, including bisexual/other non-monosexual identities, queer, trans*, genderqueer, intersex, polyamorous, asexual and kinky persons and those who prefer not to use labels, as well as allies, families and partners.
Transcending Boundaries grew out of a project of BiNet USA, the national bisexual organization. Throughout the 1990’s, BiNet USA helped bisexual activists around the country organize on a local level. In the New England & New York Tri-State Region (Connecticut, New Jersey, Westchester, Long Island, Capitol District/Lower Hudson Valley and New York City) they helped activists sponsor regional conferences. In 2000 the Conference voted to continue the independently; by 2001 the group that ran the conferences formally became a 501(c)3 whose mission is to to run the Northeast regional conference for bisexual, trans* and intersex people and our allies; in 2009, this focus was expanded to include the polyamorous community as well.At this time of year we get so busy with planning that we forget to tell you all what’s happening! Let’s catch up.
- Tomorrow (Sunday September 9) at 1 PM is our monthly organizers meeting. Attending an organizers meeting is a great way to get involved with the conference and you can attend from anywhere worldwide via skype. E-mail info@transcendingboundaries.org if you want to join the skype conference call.
- Immediately before, at noon, the content committee will meet to finalize this years workshop offerings. If you’re curious what we’ve got so far, check out Our Workshops Page
- This indiegogo campaign is near and dear to our hearts (for obvious reasons!) These guys are coming a long way to be with us!
- We’re looking for intersex voices to contribute to our Intersex Awareness Day event at 11 AM on October 26 through speaking live, recording their thoughts to be played, or writing thoughts to be read at the event. Contact melissa@transcendingboundaries.org
- Registration rates go up on October 1 so if you haven’t registered, now is the time! As our hotel block last year sold out, we also recommend booking your rooms at the Sheraton as soon as possible
by Patrick RichardsFink (aka @Fliponymous) Bisexual activist, niche theist, thinker, writer.
Why, in this day and age, is the term “bisexual” still a bad word with negative connotations? Why do those who may have identified as bisexual in the past feel the need to find other terms for their sexuality today?
Trans-Bi Activist and author Julia Serano had her finger on the pulse of this very issue when she wrote:
“If the word does not resonate with you personally, then simply do not use it. But if you happen to forgo identifying with the word, don’t dare say that it is because you believe that bisexual “reinforces the notion that there are only two genders,” as that claim goes beyond personal statement, and enters the realm of accusation, as it insinuates that people who openly call themselves bisexual (e.g. me) are at best, naive about gender politics, and at worse, oppressing trans people.”
Using other labels to escape biphobia and monosexism only further divides the LGBT community when we should be trying to unite against greater discrimination overall.
Bisexual v. Pansexual I love you as a pansexual, I love you as a bisexual, or whatever else you want to identify as. But just remember that when you tell me my identity is wrong, you’re like the billionth person, for the billionth reason.
Bisexuals = people who can ♥ people of same gender as themselves + can ♥ people of different genders/gender presentations from themselves
People PLEASE don’t just hit Like and Reblog - actually Watch & Listen (and think about it too)
Photos from the Intersectionalities Conference in Glasgow 2012. Bisexuals of Colour held an open session where we discussed bisexuality, ethnicity and crossovers.
Bi group; World Pride; London
There will be a bi walking group at World Pride in London this year. The parade is rainbow-themed, and we’re in the purple section. I’ve got a couple of banners and some purple umbrellas (also usable as parasols, if the summer continues!). Please join me, and wear purple, if you can
Assemble on Baker Street Saturday, 7 July 2012 from 10:15am for an 11am parade start time: we’ll be towards the back of the parade/towards the northern end of Baker Street. Look for the London Bisexuals banner.
N.B. Bi-friendly people are as welcome to join the group as bi people!
an actual cool intelligent SURVEY for all bisexual (generally non-monosexual queer-identified) people , that won’t leave you gnashing your teeth and pulling out your hair with fury while composing nasty notes to the Principal Investigators all the while wondering which universe (definitely NOT yours) they live in anyway
if this includes you Please TAKE THE SURVEY and also Signal-boost by Reblogging
Signal boost!
zomg. A bisexual survey that actually separates sex and gender, and doesn’t just give you binary options either. Will wonders never cease.
AND IT’S NOT THAT I’M TRYING TO DEFINE YOU FOR YOU, BUT IT’S NOT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND THAT BI MEANS TWO SORT OF LIKE DI MEANS TWO AND PAN MEANS ALL SORT OF LIKE OMNI MEANS ALL
THEY ARE PREFIXES THAT REFER TO A SPECIFIC NUMBER THAT IS HOW THE WORDS BISEXUAL AND PANSEXUAL WERE DERIVED
SO NO YOU CAN’T BE BISEXUAL AND PANSEXUAL
THAT IS NOT HOW NUMBERS WORK
With the greatest respect and not in anyway meaning to disregard any self-identification that anyone wishes to adopt but you should know there is an actual formal definition of bisexual. So that from now on could we please ask you to always use this as the starting point of any discussion of bisexuality/bisexual community.
When people say bisexual = only male/female it’s a bit like defining native american’s “redskins”. While the person speaking most likely meant no harm it’s silly, problematic as well as hurtful & disrespectful to all the bisexual people who in some ways define themselves as gender variant/gender non-conforming. It also (again probably by accident) erases the one third or more of trans* & genderqueer activist who founded and sustain the bisexual movement. So from now on Instead please use these instead:
First here is a “cute” twitter-ish version:
Bisexuals = people who ♥ People of Same Gender as themselves + ♥ People of Different Genders/Gender Presentations from themselves
Second, here is the longer more formal definition of bisexual:
Bisexuals are people with the inborn capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, (some include spiritual) and/or emotional attractions to:
(1) those of the same gender as themselves
(2) those of different genders/gender presentations from themselves
There may be an individual attraction for one gender or gender presentation which can also be fluid and changeable over time.
Bisexuality is not synonymous with being polyamorous, (some include “or promiscuous”). Individual bisexual people may be celibate, asexual, monogamous or non-monogamous just as individual straight, lesbian or gay people can be.
No matter what the gender/gender presentation of the person they are partnered with, bisexual people remain bisexual. They do not suddenly switch orientation as if by magic when they enter into a relationship.
