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Bi+ Book Club Wednesday, March 3 7-9 pm via Zoom Do you love to read and talk about books? Join Bisexual Organizing Project -BOP's Bi+ Book Club, a place to read fiction, biography, creative non-fiction, history, theory, and activist works. Come discuss readings and ideas about, for, and by bisexuals and other non-monosexual folks. Now hosted virtually by Cary! Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/83464415157?pwd=eXF4MDEyM0tyZ0cvNi8xeW9yc2hkdz09&fbclid=IwAR3YF9Sh4V9IQNesj-s76kIRlUlfqo-GeQ6uf8ZBxQ-1BPee9r1HocFjdYg#success The Bi+ Book Club reading for March will be "There There" by Tommy Orange.  There There is the first novel by Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange. Published in 2018, the book follows a large cast of Native Americans living in the Oakland, California area and contains several essays on Native American history and identity. The characters struggle with a wide array of challenges, ranging from depression and alcoholism, to unemployment, fetal alcohol syndrome, and the challenges of living with an "ambiguously nonwhite" ethnic identity in the United States. All of the characters unite at a community pow wow and its attempted robbery.
The book explores the themes of Native peoples living in urban spaces (Urban Indians), and issues of ambivalence and complexity related to Natives' struggles with identity and authenticity. There There was favorably received, and was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. The book was also awarded a Gold Medal for First Fiction by the California Book Awards. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/83464415157?pwd=eXF4MDEyM0tyZ0cvNi8xeW9yc2hkdz09&fbclid=IwAR3YF9Sh4V9IQNesj-s76kIRlUlfqo-GeQ6uf8ZBxQ-1BPee9r1HocFjdYg#success
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BECAUSEBECAUSE 2023
September 29 - October 1, 2023 Wellstone Center St Paul, MN We hope you will join us for the BECAUSE Conference as it's never been before: a hybrid event of in-person and online workshops, speakers, and social events. With Zoom producers and experienced programming staff, we are developing a new way of experiencing BECAUSE while keeping all the engagement, support, and community that has been at the core of the conference for the last 30 years. MissionBuild, serve and advocate for an empowered bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, and unlabeled (bi+) community to promote social justice. Vision
Within the next five years grow Bisexual Organizing Project (BOP) into a successfully-run Upper Midwest nonprofit organization with annual funding of $100,000 that provides community building, education, and advocacy for the bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, and unlabeled (bi+) community and our allies.
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