BiUK: Making a Space for Bi Research and Theory
Following the interviews with James from Bisexual Butterfly and Marcus from The Bisexual Index we caught up with Christina and Meg from the other new national bi organisation, BiUK, to find out about them. For a start, where did the initiative for BiUK come from? Christina: I have a few different hats when it comes [...]
Tags: Features · Posted in: BCN 98: Autumn 2009, Jen Yockney
I’ve had a gay marriage, according to some…
Whenever I rant about bisexual erasure, the first thing I hear is “When we say ‘Gay’, of course we mean to include bisexuals. Stop being silly.” This often comes up. It doesn’t matter if we bisexuals don’t include ourselves in the blanket term, other people do and we should be grateful they do without continually [...]
Tags: Features · Posted in: BCN 104: Dec 2010, Marcus
BiReCon: The first International academic conference on bisexuality?
Meg Barker, Christina Richards and Rebecca Jones (of BiUK) report back from BiReCon Thursday 26th August 2010 saw the second BiReCon conference. The aim of the event was to bring together researchers and academics with activists, organisations and community members to develop, disseminate and discuss research and theory about bisexuality. The first UK BiReCon was [...]
Tags: Features, Theory · Posted in: BCN 104: Dec 2010, Christina Richards, Meg, Rebecca Jones
Academics look at bi youth
What’s going on in the world of bi research and theory? We look at the latest issue of the academic Journal of Bisexuality. Journal of Bisexuality: Special Issue on Bisexuality and Youth By Tracey Plowman from BiUK A special issue focusing on bisexual youth seems the perfect place to begin summarising bisexuality research. The editorial[1] [...]
Tags: Features · Posted in: BCN 105: Feb 2011, Tracey Plowman
Where are we going?
Where are we going? BiCon Treforest included a panel session on “the future of the bi community”. a panel debate about how to take the UK bisexual community into the next decade and beyond. It’s the kind of discussion that really needs a wider audience than the forty or so people crammed into the workshop [...]
Tags: Features · Posted in: BCN 88:, Jen Yockney
Oh, Stonewall!
In the last ten years a lot has changed in LGBT equality. A plethora of laws: section 28, the age of consent, adoption and fostering, gender recognition, partnership recognition, equality in the workplace and as a consumer. Every bit as importantly, there is much more in the way of LGBT visibility – from regular gay [...]
Tags: Features · Posted in: BCN 85: Apr 2007, BCN 85: Spr 2007
