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 [...]

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Sexuality & Genetics

Science News: Have they found the Bi Gene? Well, not exactly, I’m afraid. However, biologists at the University of California seem to have been paying attention to some of the unutterable nonsense that certain other scientists have been spouting about sexuality lately, and have been trying to do something more sensible instead. For example, in [...]

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Bi Research Group – Future Directions

Meg and Ange on behalf of BiBlio, the bi research group The Bi Research Group (or BiBlio, as its yahoo group is called) is a growing group of people who are interested in conducting research about bisexuality. A few of us are academics who research bisexuality as part of our postgraduate or other studies. The [...]

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Considering Kinsey

In April 2005 I was having a pretty tough time. A paper that my partner and I had presented at a conference on our research with polyamorous women had proved very interesting to the press and had prompted articles in nearly all the national newspapers as well as international ones. Most of these referred to [...]

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What’s Psychology Got To Do With It?

When our bi group got a letter from the British Psychological Society inviting us to come along to their annual conference I did wonder ‘what has psychology got to do with bisexuality and why should they be bothering to invite people like me to their big conference?’ But then I figured it was free, had [...]

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Bi Academics at BiCon

At Manchester BiCon we put aside a whole afternoon for discussion of things academic and bisexual. By the time Sunday afternoon came around Alessandra (my co-facilitator) and I were less certain that this was a good idea, suffering as we were from the after-effects of the night before. We decided to suggest a shorter session [...]

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Analysing Activism

When the frenzy of BiCon died down, we caught up with author Surya Monro and asked about her forthcoming book. I started work on this book back in the 1990s, when I was attempting to do a PhD on trans politics, and not long before I came out (for the second time) as bi. My [...]

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BiMate: Meg

Take a seat and introduce yourself. Hello, I’m Meg. I’ve been out in varying degrees as bisexual since my mid teens but more definitely so after attending my first BiCon in 1997 (after meeting Grant Denkinson who has a lot to answer for!) I didn’t go back again for a few years but my sister [...]

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