Comments | curriedspam: Has Bi organizing gone the way of TV Guide?

curriedspam

Has Bi organizing gone the way of TV Guide?

Feb 19, 2008 11:04

Once upon a time, every "tv watching" home needed a TV Guide. It told you what was on at what time. Without it, you were forced to stand by the tv and manually switch between channels until you found something good ( Read more... )

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softfruit February 20 2008, 09:30:26 UTC

This intrigues me a little in that over in the UK we're just getting on to the "let's have a national organisation" stage, despite on paper being in a better position legally and such. Up til now the closest we come is Bi Community News magazine, which has been described to me as "the members newsletter of the UK bis membership organisation we don't have ( ... )

nyabn February 20 2008, 10:20:54 UTC

comments from the peanut gallery . . .

Or maybe US-wide organizing is just too geographically large a scale, in the same way we don't have an EU-wide body?

the US has other large and very successful national LGBT Groups including two (competing liberal and conservative) general groups and a group representing the transgendered community, etc.

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in any event please come join the new listserv Local_Bi_Group_Leaders, all people who lead any sort of bi group anywhere and can get along in English language urged to join

softfruit February 20 2008, 19:55:35 UTC

On the latter point, I'm already there - just a little quiet as it's got a bit too navel-gazing for me and not enough of the Running Groups Successfully stuff.

lisbethk24 February 20 2008, 20:49:21 UTC

At BOP (the Bisexual Organizing Project) we struggled for a time about getting younger queers involved. Interestingly, after starting to work on the BECAUSE (Bisexual Empowerment Conference: An Uplifting and Supportive Environment) conference, we have had a number of student groups become active in bisexual organizing. The University of Minnesota Queer Student Union is one of the sponsors of the event, and we've been developing good relationships with MNGLBTA Campus Alliance.

lovingboth February 20 2008, 22:42:12 UTC

I don't see the libraries of bi themed books, but perhaps I'm not looking in the erotica section :)

I also see lots of 'I want to get laid' online activity and not so much other discussion etc.

I also still see lots of LGB[T] organisations only mention the bi word on their funding applications and not in their services etc.

So I think there is a need, and in the UK we're still seeing people want to do something...

don't throw the baby out with the bathwater (from queer and postqueer ljs) candyholic February 21 2008, 04:34:31 UTC

or in this case, the tv guide with the newspaper. unlike the tv guide, bisexuality is not a vestige of days gone by. i think part of the problem is that the ideal "bisexual agenda" is more radical than either the feminist or the gay agenda, and many people who identify as "bisexual" arrive at that label from heterosexuality. it seems to me that people who fall in the middle of the kinsey spectrum (i.e. most people) but arrive at that label from/through homosexuality are more likely to choose a label that emphasizes the fluidity of sexuality--i.e. striking down both the hetero and the homo of binary sexuality and normativity ( ... )

It all starts with one... anonymous February 21 2008, 11:41:16 UTC

Like the old saying goes, "Organizing bisexuals is a lot like herding cats." Sad, but true, but also not surprising in some ways. After all, telling people over and over and over again that you really do exist when you're standing right in front of them wears a kid out! It also goes to show that the more we learn to love ourselves, the more we'll advance ( ... )