Amy Luettgen In the past two years I have organized Bi+ Pride Milwaukee(BPM). We have gone from having zero presence in theMilwaukee LGBTQ community to winning a Pride Award atMilwaukee PrideFest for best LGBTQ organization in 2019.When I accepted the award for BPM, I gave a short speechabout how the bi community has been present…
Category: 2020 Spring – Being an Activist
We Aren’t In it Alone: Better Together Conference 2020
By Amber Loomis Better Together was a multi-day LGBTQIA+ conferencethat was held in Melbourne, Australia in January 2020.It focused on facilitating conversations about LGBTQIA+rights and building meaningful connections in order tocultivate positive change. This year, the conference was heldon the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peopleof the Kulin Nation. This land was never…
My Activism
Jen Yockney Three things I have done: • Run more than 400 meets of my local bi, social, and supportgroup BiPhoria in Manchester, England. It’s the UK’s oldest groupand I’ve been there more than 25 years now. Even after all thistime there are new people every month. The difference bi spacecan make for attendees, to…
Creating Change 2020: From Just Getting Bi to Enjoying the Journey
By Iris Carufel I almost didn’t make it to the Bi+ Institute at the CreatingChange Conference in Dallas. I had signed up for a differentinstitute online, and then I almost decided to go to anotherinstitute with my colleague. I was comfortable around thembecause they were comfortable in their identity all their life,and while I know…
Rebel Without a Card
By Lila Hartelius This university year, I’m incorporating the topic of climatechange into classes I teach in a food engineering department.At a certain point in time, I felt that to be sufficiently preparedfor work in the agri-food sector, my students should be guidedto integrate climate change into every aspect of their training,and I wanted to…
My Activism
Luiza Veado, Brazil/US I’ve pushed to include bisexual issues in the work of the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, drafting theirfirst bi visibility day press release and also published by theindependent expert in SOGI (sexual orientation and genderidentity). I’m also the one person in the room that does notlet the acronym discussions become LGT in…
I Have This Body for a Reason: Truly Diverse Well-Being for an And/Both/All World
By Laura-Marie River Victor Peace I feel in between, in many ways, enjoying liminal spaces andbeing marginally comprehensible much of the time. I’m a ciswoman partnered with a nonbinary person who’s usually readas a man. I hesitated to claim my bi identity for years because Iwas afraid of asserting it, when most people see me…
Simple poetry // to resist and to reveal // grim realities
By Martine Mussies (Cyborg Mermaid) For living on this planet, I pay “rent.” I contribute to the worldwith my music, my research, my arts and crafts, my love andfriendship, and my writing. Although my name literally means“Little Warrior,” due to my autism I cannot join my friends onthe barricades. Therefore, I raise my voice through…
To Bi, Or Not to Bi
By Mari Wrobi It was my partner’s first Pride. He was new to identifying asbisexual and excited for the opportunity to exist in a space thatwas by and for people like him. It was my first Pride as a bisexualfemme dating a cisgender man. It felt like new territory for usboth. Him, dating someone who…
My Activism
Jennie Roberson Even though I grew up in a family that’s been involved in local and national politics for decades (I went to my first election night party when I was nine), it took me years to discern that “activism” was not justmarching in the streets. Sure, that’s showy and needed and effective, but there…