Excerpt from interview with Audrey White for AUTOSTRADDLE
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#spiritday
Stand against bullying! Wear purple and make your profile pic purple for #spiritday 10/16 at http://glaad.org/spiritday #LGBT
Spectra Speaks: Bye, Bye, Bi?? Ridiculous
After catching up on the LGBT Task Force debacle (in which they published an article called “Bye Bye Bi”… sigh), I feel compelled to state publicly:
I deeply value and cherish openly self-identifying bisexual people – not just because they deserve to be valued as human beings in general, but because I genuinely believe their experiences create bridges between seemingly disparate communities, and in really powerful ways. They’re owed more than an apology each time society messes up. They’re owed our gratitude.
Bisexual Awareness Week #BiAllies
Today is the final day of the campaign to bring awareness about our bisexual community and it’s issues to the rest of the world. We conclude with #BiAllies. We asked our allies who include our love ones this question. “How do I be a Bi-Ally?” And here are some of our responses… Continue reading
Random Lights
Beautiful work. Many of them you know.
LARKER Issue 2: Random Lights Flaring in Our Chests
A Bisexual study featuring: Kathy Acker, Faith Cheltenham, Vinayak Das, Marlene Deitreich, Isadora Duncan, Harrie Farrow, Fer Filol, Dani K O Flux, Robert Giard, Hannah Hoch, Imani the Misfit, Lani Ka’ahumanu, Razi Marysol Machay, Patrick RichardsFink, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Sylvia Rivera, Sapphire, Julia Serano, Edward Steichen, James L. Sword Jr., Seth Tisue. Continue reading
KBOO BiVisibility Interview
Cameron and Lynnette had a great interview with Alan Silver of Outloud.
Out Loud celebrates Bi Visbility Day with Portland-area bi organizers and authors. Continue reading
Gasping for Air: Biphobia, Suicide and Me by Aud Traher
A few weeks ago I wrote about how biphobia impacted my life in the form of rape and it’s effects on me at the time. But the story does not end there, nor does the biphobia and pain.
I had been admitted to a day program after suicide attempts and other dangerous behaviors. It was my first time being one on one with the med giving doctor. He and a smiling pretty med student were in their along with some other tall bald thin man. I told him the whole story. I cried. The poor med students face, she will be a good doctor. Then he said those words. That it was my fault. I had been drinking and had been out as bi. Every guy knew that was code for sexually promiscuous. That I should call my mother who had coldly asked me “how much time did you waste over this? Did you blow a whole semester? How much of our money did you waste?” That I should beg her to forgive me.
(Continue reading on Aud’s website)
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TransJustice and The Audre Lorde Project Publish Powerful Anti-Violence Statement
August 19th, 2014
“and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”
– Audre Lorde
In the words of Audre Lorde, ‘We were never meant to survive.’ Our survival, our continued resilience, our continued efforts for social justice are direct threats and challenges to systemic oppressions. We must, at all costs, do whatever we can to lift up and protect one another in our interconnected struggles for liberation.
Please Join us on Saturday, August 23rd from 11:00am until 3:00pm in the LGBTQ Contingent for the ‘We Will Not go Back March and Rally’, which is being organized by the National Action Network and Eric Garner’s family. For more information, please check out the facebook page and the website below or contact Lee at FIERCE Lee@fiercenyc.org.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1512923178942814/
http://nationalactionnetwork.net/wewillnotgoback/
Also, join us for the 4th Annual Bed-Stuy Pride!
https://www.facebook.com/events/666641756739391/
https://www.facebook.com/events/666641756739391/
On September 7th, 2014 the Safe OUTside the System collective of the Audre Lorde Project will hold the 4th Annual Bed-Stuy Pride to honor the history and resilience of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color communities in Central Brooklyn. We call on all LGBTSTGNC people of color and allies in Central Brooklyn to join us in visioning a safe Bed-Stuy rooted in community accountability
Trans Mental Health with Dara Hoffman-Fox LPC Links
DARA’S WEBSITE RESOURCES
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