Join the 2023 Bisexual+ Research, Activism, and Community Event!

This event will provide a positive and safe space to share our communal insights on bi+ identities and orientations in a more open and casual format than the International Bisexuality Research Conference of the last two years. 

29.09.23-30.09.23

The International Bisexual+ Research, Activism, and Community Event will include a series of informal roundtables, workshops, and open discussions focused on research practices, community building, and political struggles, which we believe will continue to help foster the global bi+ community and improve our collective path towards better research and bi+ liberation.

This new format will feature discussions and works from scholars, affiliated or independent, bi+ activists, and community organizations. There will be sessions at various times to accommodate various time zones. This means that whether you are in Europe, the Americas, Oceania, or elsewhere, we will work hard to find a time that works for you and your colleagues. Our goal this year is to focus on building connections and will be more informal than previous years. 

You might be wondering why we will not be hosting the International Bisexuality+ Reserach Conference this year.

The reasons for our decision are many; however the most significant is the enormous organizational and logistical effort required to host such a large scale event. Last year’s conference included 17 slots running on three parallel streams, including keynotes, workshops, roundtables, discussion panels with about 50 speakers, and 300 participants worldwide. We are a small but mighty volunteer team and effectively executing an event this size requires herculean efforts. 

We believe that transforming the structured conference into a biennial event will result in more sustainable and meaningful presentations of new research and perspectives in a relatively small community like ours. It will also allow us to better focus our efforts on raising sufficient funds to run the conference, which although online, requires significant financial support. 

We welcome submissions from a diverse range of people and a broad range of areas, including the social sciences, history, cultural and media studies, health, and from therapeutic practitioners, activists, artists, and community members who may be working on bisexual+ issues in their professional fields or who would like to learn more and spend the day in community.  

We welcome submissions related to bisexual, pansexual, Two-Spirit, queer, fluid, polysexual, plurisexual, and unlabeled experiences.

Acknowledging that bi+ identities intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, class, disability and age and can result in interdependent and overlapping experiences of oppression, we invite voices that have been historically and systemically ignored, marginalized, diminished, distorted, undermined, or silenced.

Research, Activism, and Community

We invite proposals that may fall into one or any of the themes of research, activism, and community. Potential formats might include:

  • Research issues, tips, or lessons

  • Identifying gaps in research

  • Presentation of research findings

  • Visual poster presentation

  • Open forum/discussion

  • Community discussion

  • Facilitated reading

  • Poetry

  • FIlm

  • Roundtable discussion

Potential themes may include, but are not limited to:

  • Bi+ history and where to find it

  • Building Bi+ communities between oppression and liberation

  • Politics and activism

  • Doing “good” Bi+ research? What to know.

  • Beyond the binaries: alliances between communities

  • Intersecting bisexualities

  • Keeping it visible: Bi+ in media representation

  • Intimacy and research: what can we do?

  • Supporting the mental health of bi+ clients

  • Creating and expanding Bi+ spaces

Submission deadline is any time, in any timezone, on:

 

25.08.2023

 

Submit your idea here!

 

Privacy Statement

The data that you submit when registering for the conference and submitting your abstracts will be used only for the purpose of organising and hosting the Bi Conference Online 2021.

 

Code of Conduct

Attendees at all events, activities, and programs by The Bisexual Research Group seek to learn, network, and enjoy themselves, free from discrimination or harassment.

This Code of Conduct affirms the positive and constructive behaviours to which The Bisexual Research Group aspires as a professional and scientific society. It also details how to report inappropriate conduct.

See you there!