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Chicago Bi-Visibility
Just looking to guage interest in a bi-visbility social group in Chicago. If enough people follow here, I'm thinking about making it a regular meetup in the city.
*And just to clarify: this group is for ANY non-monosexual-identifying person. :) "Bi", Pansexual, Queer, Sexually Fluid, etc. <3 you all.
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New Report Reveals Bisexual Youth Face Specific Challenges — and Need Our Support
New Report Reveals Bisexual Youth Face Specific Challenges — and Need Our Support
Bisexuals aged 13-17 experience lower levels of happiness, higher rates of alcohol and drug use, and lower levels of social and family acceptance and support than their straight, gay and lesbian peers, according to a new report from the Human Rights Commission in partnership with BiNet USA, Bisexual Resource Center, and Bisexual Organization Project.
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Today, in honor of #BiWeek, the report “Understanding Issues Facing Bisexual Americans” was released by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), BiNet USA, and the Bisexual Resource Center (BRC). Here are some things we learned:
There are over 9 million LGBT people in the United States and more than half identify as bisexual
Only 28% of bisexuals say that all the important people in their life know they are bisexual, compared to 77% of gay men and 71% of lesbians
Approximately 25% of bisexual men and 30% of bisexual women live in poverty, compared to 15% and 21% of non-LGB men and women respectively and 20% and 23% of gay man and lesbians
Nearly half of bisexual people report that they are not out to any of their coworkers (49%), compared to just 24% of lesbian and gay people.
20% of bisexuals report experiencing a negative employment decision based on their identity, and almost 60% of bisexual people report hearing anti-bisexual jokes and comments on the job
When bisexual survivors of violence interact with police, however, they are three times more likely to experience police violence than people who are not bisexual.
Bisexual people have high rates of poor physical and mental health. Physical disparities include higher rates of hypertension, poor or fair physical health, smoking, and risky drinking than non-LGB people, lesbians, or gay men. Despite these disparities, and perhaps compounding them, bisexual people are less likely than gay men or lesbians to be out to their health care providers.
Bisexual people experience higher rates of sexual and intimate partner violence than gay, lesbian, and straight people.
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Reasons.
in a survey of canadian students, 26% of young bisexual women and 12% of young bisexual men reported having been physically harrassed because of their sexual orientation. 75% of young bisexual women and 51% of young bisexual men report feeling unsafe at school. (source)
#bisexual#bi#bisexuality#queer#chicago#biinvisibility#bisexual invisibility#bi visibility#bisexual privilege
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SO pumped about this meetup! Who's going??
Click the image for the FB event!
Eat Comics!
Read Pizza!
Meet rad people!
Craft Beer!
Telephone Pictionary!
Fun times!
Sliding-Scale Portraits!
Comic and zine pop-up shop!
Hang out with Autostraddle’s Saturday Morning Cartoon contributor and comicbabe Anna Bongiovanni
(annabongiovanni.com or http://tinyurl.com/n5egoks ) and Screentests cartoonist Annie Mok while eating pizza and probably having fun.
Read/buy some of their sweet comics. Annie will be drawings $liding $cale portraits! Anna will be leading some riveting rounds of telephone pictionary! Meet other people who probably have a similar interest in comics/zines/art/autostraddle!
4-7pm (come for the whole time, or just a portion) at Dimo’s Pizza (Six Corners, 1615 N. Damen Ave.)
This is at the WICKER PARK location of Dimo’s! There’s also comics reading with Elisha Lim, MariNaomi, and Mike Dawson at Quimby’s Bookstore at 7, right near, after this!
http://www.quimbys.com/blog/comics/elisha-lim-marinaomi-mike-dawson-read-from-their-graphic-novels-to-kick-off-the-chicago-alternative-comics-expo-at-quimbys-530/
Annie & Anna both exhibit at CAKE at the Center on Halsted on Sat. & Sun.!
http://www.cakechicago.com/
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People want to believe gender is something that’s essential, and people repeat these essentialist ideas all the time. “Oh, women do that” and “Oh, men do that” and the reality is that all women don’t anything. We as individuals do what we do, you know, and sometimes that’s informed by gender and sometimes it’s just who we are. And I think all that just makes people really, really uncomfortable because they don’t want to think about who they are.
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Chicago Bi-Visibility Group?
Follow if you’d be interested in joining a bi-visibility social group in Chicago! Bisexual-identifying people like myself often feel “invisible” in their communities or cities. Let’s find a way to become visible to each other. :)
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Re-blogging til I see some interest from my fellow bi Chicagoans. :)
Chicago Bi-Visibility Group?
Follow if you’d be interested in joining a bi-visibility social group in Chicago! Bisexual-identifying people like myself often feel “invisible” in their communities or cities. Let’s find a way to become visible to each other. :)
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The University of Illinois-Chicago is fighting biphobia by promoting bi visibility and community building — this semester the university launched its first official group specifically targeting the bi community and the issues it faces.
Re-blogging til I see more bi Chicagoans interested. :)
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10 Bisexuals Celebrities That Everyone Keeps (Mis)Labeling As Gay or Straight
1. Amber Heard
2. Alan Cumming
3. Drew Barrymore
4. Megan Fox
5. Andy Dick
6. Carrie Brownstein
7. Lady Gaga
8. Billy Joe Armstrong
9. Angelina Jolie
10. Margaret Cho
Read more in the original very good piece in The Gloss, about how each person has been misidentified and comments they have made.
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Chicago Bi-Visibility Group?
Follow if you'd be interested in joining a bi-visibility social group in Chicago! Bisexual-identifying people like myself often feel "invisible" in their communities or cities. Let's find a way to become visible to each other. :)
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The University of Illinois-Chicago is fighting biphobia by promoting bi visibility and community building -- this semester the university launched its first official group specifically targeting the bi community and the issues it faces.
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