We blacks have to stick together.
Also known as: What will the neighbours think?
Most likely to come from: Black straight, lesbian, gay and trans people.
Black and minority ethnic people are not a monolith; trying to force that view stifles all of us. Diversity only adds to the strength of a community. It is a good thing to support people who make up our groups. Bi’s of colour are not divisive or confused. We want to celebrate who we are.
Jacqueline Applebee, one of the co-founders of Bi’s of Colour will be reading at this event. She’ll be representing the B in LGBT with lots of (non-erotic) poems. This is a FREE event to mark U.K Black History Month 2012.
Event takes place at Woolfson and Tay.
We’ll be launching our project with an event at Kairos in Soho on Saturday 21st July.
More details including timings to follow.
There will be a Bis of Colour-only space for mutual support followed by an open session/presentation on the specific issues faced by Bi people of colour, and a mixed social to finish up the night.
check the Kairos website for directions/accessbility info.
BiCon, Bradford, 11th August
We’ll both be at the Bis of Colour session at BiCon, the UK National Bisexual convention in Bradford. Bicon is running from 9th to 13th August, the Bis of Colour session is mostly likely to take place on the 11th August and day passes can be bought on the day.
More about BiCon here: http://bicon2012.org.uk/
UK Black Pride, Ministry of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, London, SE1 6DP, 18th August
We’ll have a community stall with information about the group, about being BME/people of colour and being bi, please come and say hello
More about UK Black Pride here: http://www.ukblackpride.org.uk/
The Tumblr space for the UK Bi’s of Colour group.
Bi’s of Colour:
Bi:
Bi(sexual), not straight or gay, queer, pansexual, bicurious, unsure people all welcome
Attracted to more than one gender? Attracted to men and women? Welcome.
We aren’t interested in whether you are ‘gay enough’ or ‘queer enough’ or ‘too straight’ or how many relationships you’ve had/who with.
Of Colour:
Those who are descended (through one or both parents) from anywhere in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the original inhabitants of Australasia, North America, and the islands of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
We explicitly welcome and invite mixed race people.
We’re not interested in whether you are ‘black enough’, lots of us aren’t.
We welcome anyone who defines/sees themself anywhere in *both* of these groups.
This is the tumblr/one of the online spaces for the new UK Bis of Colour group. Questions and queries in comments or to bis.of.colour@gmail.com
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