Bi/Pan+ Dance Party: Magical Creatures & Substitute Teachers

Name: Bi/Pan+ Dance Party: Magical Creatures & Substitute Teachers
Start: 2025-03-15T21:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-16T01:00:00-04:00
Location: Union Tavern, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143-2914, United States

Schedule

Sat, 15 Mar, 2025 at 09:00 pm to Sun, 16 Mar, 2025 at 01:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Union Tavern, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143-2914, United States | Somerville, MA

Imbibe is BACK with another Bi/Pan+ dance party! Come meet, mingle, and dance with other bi/pan+ folks!
The theme for the night is...
*MAGICAL CREATURES and SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS*
That's right, not only are we back, we're doing themes! And in classic bisexual fashion we are giving you OPTIONS. Because... why not both? Come dressed up for a night of Magical Creatures and Substitute Teachers, however this speaks to you. Unicorn? Chimera? Babadook? Hot teacher? Hot for teacher? The world is your oyster, but the oyster is a magical talking oyster trying to teach you math.

Tickets available at the door and via Venmo. (DM for Venmo information to pre-order.)
21+ | $15
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This night is for people who have sexual and/or romantic orientations under the bi+ umbrella, including pan, omni, and other multisexual identities. We also welcome people questioning if they are part of the bi+ community, and are looking for a safe space to explore that aspect of themselves. Monosexual partners and friends are welcome to accompany bi+ folks — just keep in mind this space is to center the bi+ community in a way we don't experience regularly!
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We are a trans-led organization. We recognize the significant overlap of people who identify as trans or nonbinary and bi/pan. This is a gender-liberatory space! Any attempt to suggest bi+ and trans communities are not aligned, or to suggest that bisexuality is not trans-inclusive, will not be tolerated.
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We require attendees to practice consent when interacting with others, especially with physical touch! (And remember, not everyone is here to flirt with other people.)
Consent in an ongoing practice, not a one-time permission. If you're not clear, you can get verbal clarification, or err on the side of leaving the other person alone – if you've expressed interest in dancing together, trust they've understood and respect their response (and a lack of response is a response), so let them come to you if they want. If someone is staying still, moving away from you, or not reciprocating, they're likely not consenting to dance with you – but reciprocating doesn't mean they are consenting. Check in!
Attendees may be asked to leave if they aren't practicing consent.
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Why are we organizing bi+ community events?
Bi+ people face a specific form of oppression, monosexism, and specific discrimination, biphobia, in addition to experiencing homophobia and oppression from white supremacy and the gender binary. As a result, on a micro level we frequently encounter microaggressions and exclusion (subtle or explicit) from queer and cishet groups, known as "double discrimination," and on a macro level, we have worse social, economic, and health outcomes than people with any other sexual orientation.
Despite being the numerical majority of the queer community, and despite facing this added oppression from monosexism, we rarely if ever have community and events that center us. Instead, we are expected to find community in groups centering monosexual gay and lesbian experiences, which continues to leave us at the margins.
Put more poetically, in the words of our co-founder Kylie Terra Burnham: "Bi+ folks, like all queer folks, too often have our queerness erased in cishet spaces. However, it's usually erroneously expected by queer organizers that we will feel seen and comfortable in queer spaces focusing on same-gender attraction (eg. lesbian spaces or gay spaces). It's as if our queerness is seen as "just a part" of us, a part that is described as only our ability to be attracted to members of the same gender and made to be separate from the rest of our being; it's expected that if that fictionalized, cut-off part of us is "seen" and given space, then our queerness will be seen and given space. Instead our queerness includes our whole self and our inability and refusal to have a binary, either/or sexuality. The missing niche of Bi+ social spaces, for people of all genders, provides a community where we can feel radically seen and safe, in our whole, beautiful, messy, nuanced queerness."