#BiWeek Dance Party
Schedule
Fri, 22 Sep, 2023 at 08:00 pm to Sat, 23 Sep, 2023 at 01:00 am
Location
Union Tavern | New Town, MA
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It's #BiWeek - so we're doing another Bi/Pan+ dance party at Union Tavern! Sept. 23rd is Celebrate Bisexuality Day - we'll be celebrating on the dancefloor when the clock strikes midnight! Doors open at 8pm for meeting and mingling with other bi/pan+ folks; dance music will be starting shortly thereafter.
We're excited to announce that Chelita (@chelitasdelight) will be DJing!
Tickets will be available at http://imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com
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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 in our daily lives.
Follow us on IG or Fb @imbibe.boston or visit our website at mmm.page/imbibe to keep in the loop on future events.
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Covid precautions: Covid cases are on the rise currently, and it's the start of flu season - please consider the risk of the people you'll be around after, test if possible, and stay home if sick.
Please take a rapid test the evening of the event, or a PCR test within 24 hours prior, and stay home if you have a positive result. If you have recent symptoms (even mild ones), stay home regardless of test result, as it can take ~3 days after symptoms start to test positive.
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We require attendees to practice consent when interacting with others, especially with physical touch! 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! And remember, not everyone is here to dance or flirt with other people.
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. It's time we change that!
And (as a result of all the above) it just feels nice to be in a group of other bi/pan+ folks.
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."
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Where is it happening?
Union Tavern, New Town, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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