Imbibe

Throwing bi+ community dance parties and events in Boston. Why are we organizing bi+ community events? It's time we change that!

We chose the name Imbibe because writing it starts with "I'm Bi" — and for the drink-me-up sensuality of the word, the feeling of it when speaking or hearing it. Our core event series is a bi+ dance night, but we also plan to host events to build community in other ways include meetups, board game nights, hiking trips, and more. Events are for people who have s*xual and/or romantic orientations un

der the bi+ umbrella, including pan, omni, and other multis*xual 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. Bi+ people face a specific form of oppression, monos*xism, and specific discrimination, biphobia -- in addition to 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 q***r 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 s*xual orientation. Despite being the numerical majority of the q***r community, and despite facing this added oppression from monos*xism, we rarely if ever have community and events that center us. Instead, we are expected to find community in groups centering monos*xual gay and le***an experiences, which continues to leave us at the margins. And (as a result of all the above) it just feels nice to be in a group of other bi/pan+ folks. All our events emphasize an ethos of consent as an ongoing practice. We also note that oppression is intersectional, and white supremacy, transphobia, and colonialism disproportionaly impact the bi+ community.

09/14/2023

Get your groove on and celebrate with other bi/pan+ folks! Come early to make connection within our friendly community - and then , our local legend and 2S Black Indigenous DJ, will help us ring in Celebrate Bis*xuality+ Day.

Ticket link in bio.

Celebrate Bis*xuality+ Day, later expanded to Bi+ Week (Sept. 16-23), was started by Bi+ activists in 1999 because bi+ folks are often not fully included or recognized in Pride and other q***r spaces, even though we are a plurality of the q***r community and face unique challenges in a society that is monos*xist as well as homophobic. Because of these unique stressors, augmented by our lack of both bi+ community and bi+ identity pride, we have worse mental, physical, and social wellbeing than gay/le***an and straight communities.

Our society's monos*xism, present in our culture at large and q***r subcultures, means we struggle with internal identity development of our innate patterns of desire - so we often spend our lives feeling as if something is wrong with us, incomplete, confused, internalizing the bi-negativity and erasure of our culture. Even when we can name and accept ourselves as bi/pan+, without community and belonging we will struggle to finish identity development process. This is one of the most crucial reasons for bi+ health disparities which range from increased heart attack risk to greater suicidality than monos*xual folks.

Celebrating bis*xuality+ with all of you, forming bi+ community and pride, is an important preventative measure - and also a big joy!

(Reminders: Venue is 21+. We are a trans/nonbinary led space (and the majority of trans people are bi/pan!). Practice consent when interacting with others! Covid, flu, and colds are on the rise; make an informed decision on if this event is right for you, including the health risks of folks you may interact with in the week after. We will host events with lower risk in the future, as well as all-ages events.)

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06/01/2023

Happy Pride Month! We're thrilled to bring you all our first ever Pride event for Bi/Pan+ folks of all genders.

We're blessed to have the Boston-based, Miami-born DJ P1NO () crafting the soundscape for q***r healing movement throughout the night. Tickets are or $15 at the door or $12 in advance at imbibe-pride.eventbrite.com.

This night is for people who have s*xual or romantic orientations under the bi+ umbrella, including pan, omni, and other multis*xual 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.

We are a trans-led space. Transphobia will not be tolerated.

Why are we organizing bi+ events? We need bi+ community and internalized pride! The bi+ population has worse physical health, mental health, and social outcomes than straight, gay, and le***an populations. A sense of bi+ community and internalized identity pride are the most effective strategies for having positive, direct impact on the well-being of bi+ people. Finding joy and dancing together in a space where we have a sense of belonging and can develop relationships with mutuality, where our innate patterns of s*xual desire are fully understood as positive, allowing us to complete necessary internal identity development processes: this is a major point of Pride!

No longer do we only have affinity spaces for "men who like men" and "women who like women" or "women and femmes" (which leaves out whole swaths of nonbinary people and treads cultural myths of the purity and innocence of (white) women). Now we have Imbibe - a space for people of all genders who have the capacity for attraction to people of more than one gender! Where our q***rness isn't just understood as same s*x attraction, but also as the attraction unlimited by the gender binary, attraction that itself isn't binary, in the myriad of ways that can be.

Love you all and looking forward to celebrating together!

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05/25/2023

UPDATE! Our Pride Month party is coming up and in a twist of events we're stoked to have DJing! (We hope can join us in the future!)

We truly can't wait for our first ever Bi+ Pride party on June 30th - early bird tickets are available now at imbibe-pride.eventbrite.com. Thanks for helping us be able to pay our DJs well and throw events for the bi+ community - we couldn't do it without your $ support. If ticket price is an obstacle, reach out and we'd love to find a volunteer role for you :)

As always, all our DJs are members of the diverse bi/pan+ non-monos*xual q***r community. We also strive to platform trans/nonbinary DJs and Black, Brown, and Indigenous DJs. If you'd like to put any bi+ DJs on our radar, let us know!

03/25/2023

One week from today we have our first Bi Night of 2023! But we're not stopping there - save the dates because we have an incredible lineup this year of DJs from our bi+ community.

We can't wait to share space with y'all!

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03/20/2023

For Bi+ Health Month, we're having another bi/pan+ community night at for mingling and dancing! Bi DJ .bi.blaire will be hitting the decks to give us dulcet tones to groove to. Ticket link in bio.

Did you know bi+ have the worse health outcomes of any s*xuality group? It's probably due to the constant stress and pressure from monos*xism and biphobia intersecting with all aspects of our lives. Having community with other bi+ people has been correlated with improvements in the mental and physical health of our community! So drop on bi, make some friends, and dance it out!
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This night is for people who have s*xual and/or romantic orientations under the bi+ umbrella, including pan, omni, and other multis*xual identities. We welcome people questioning if they are part of the bi+ community, and are looking for a safe space to explore that aspect of themselves. Monos*xual friends are welcome to accompany bi+ folks — just keep in mind this space is for the bi+ community in a way we don't experience in our daily lives.
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Like all q***r folks, we too often have our q***rness erased in cishet spaces. However, q***r spaces often fall short too. It's as if our q***rness 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 q***rness will be seen and given space. Instead our q***rness includes our whole self and our inability and refusal to have a binary, either/or s*xuality. 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 q***rness.
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Covid precautions: 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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03/02/2023

Hello from Imbibe's co-founders, and !

After a brief hiatus, we're excited to restart regular events from Imbibe in 2023 - starting with a Bi Night on March 31st at Union Tavern (check our story for the last few hours of the early bird ticket link)!

About us: Kylie (she/they) is a trans femme museum/library-based educator and artist (theatre, dance, and digital mediums) studying to be a mental health counselor. Suzie (she/her) is a transit planner and performer (including, but not limited to, stand-up comedy, burlesque, music and theatre). We're both karaoke enthusiasts. And we're excited to continue to get to know you all!

We started Imbibe in July 2022 after realizes that there hadn't been specific parties for Bi+ people during Pride Month - or any time - the way there were specific parties for gay and le***an folks.

We'd gotten so much from our own bi friendships, and the healing nature of being around each other (and other bi people) highlighted the monos*xism we experience in most other spaces. Data and anecdotes time and again show how having community with other bi+ folks increases our self-acceptance and improves outcomes for social, emotional, and even physical wellbeing. While Boston has a long history of bi advocacy, it's been missing some of the events we personally wanted - like going to a bar surrounded by bi+ people or enjoying bi+ performing artists.

We wanted to be able to go out to a club or a show and for a night to not only avoid monos*xism, but also be met with overt bi+ celebration and joy. Where we could revel in bi4bi energy (platonic, romantic, or otherwise) and pan paradises, whether or not we're confused, messy, needy, greedy, promiscuous, or unable to chose. So we decided to start throwing the kind of events we'd want to go to! We've been overwhelmed by the amount of support we've received.

We recognize too that there are still many kinds of bi+ events that don't exist yet. If there's something you want to organize for bi+ folks in Boston, we'd be happy to share information about it - the more bi+ organizers & community spaces, the merrier!

Bye for now, and bi for always - KTB & SB

12/02/2022

Still reminiscing about our amazing variety show the other week… we can’t wait until the next one!

11/16/2022

Just a small snapshot of some of the variety we had at our variety show on Friday!

And wishing congrats to one of our inaugural show performers,
, whose EP "Blue" came out today!

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11/11/2022

Buy at the door or via link in bio! Tonight's the night!

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11/04/2022

Ticket link in bio!

Join us one week from today for our first variety show with all bi/pan performers! 8pm on 11/11 at the Rozzie Square Theatre, 5 Basile St #2501, Roslindale, Boston.

Proof of vaccination required.

We can't guarantee they'll be tickets available at the door so buy them now at Rozzie Square Theatre's website.

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11/02/2022

Link in bio to apply!

We're looking for the last few acts for our variety show on 11/11. Let us know asap if you're interested! (Note we already have several comedians lined up, but would love any sort of circus acts, dance acts, music, or other!)

Otherwise, save the date for 11/11 at 8pm at the to come and watch some bi+ performers share their craft!

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10/23/2022

Thinking about our bi+ board game night during and missing you all! We've been on a bit of a hiatus for October but we'll be back with more events soon!!

10/05/2022

pics from our bi+ vendors marker!

thanks to for partnering with us on this, organizing the space and vendors! and thanks to all of our amazing vendors: .studios & Sanisa Studios

and of course, thanks to everyone for coming and celebrating bi+ makers and bi+ community!

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09/16/2022

Happy Bi+ Week!

September 16 to 23 is the annual Bi+ Week, culminating in Celebrate Bis*xuality+ Day, also known as Bi+ Visibility Day. This year, Celebrate Bis*xuality+ Day falls on a Friday – and we’re bringing you the vibes of bi+ DJ Ms Mango, to hit the dance floor and make new friends at Union Tavern, and to Celebrate Bis*xuality+ together! Get your tickets at imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com.

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09/13/2022

Announcing the vendors for our market on Sept. 15! Each of these makers and purveyors of goods are part of the bi/pan+ community. Come celebrate the start of bi+ week a little early with us and support bi+ artists! (You don't have to be bi+ to buy from them -- all folks are invited to this market!)

Bi/pan+ folks - come say hi and stick around to mingle with each other! You're welcome to join us at the picnic table with the bi flags to sit, chat, and meet folks!

And reminder we'll be right down the street from q***raoke at the Midway Café - so if you're planning on going there, you can stop by our market on the way!

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09/09/2022

Our party for Celebrate Bis*xuality+ Day at will feature the beats of !

Tickets available at imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com

Can't wait to see y'all there in your most bi/pan+ 'fits!

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09/08/2022

After the success of our last two board game nights, we're having another one for !

Bring games if you'd like, or just come to socialize and make bi/pan+ friends!

(Note that this is a day and place change from our first two board game nights, and will be on a Tuesday and in JP.)

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09/08/2022

All are welcome to ring in Bi Week at our vintage & artisanal market in collaboration with JP VAM!

Bi/pan? Come hang out with us!

Ally? Start off your allyship by getting gifts from bi/pan vendors to give to the bi/pan people in your life! (Or to keep for yourself!)

We're still accepting vendor applications via email to [email protected]

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09/04/2022

We're seeking vendors of all kinds for our bi/pan+ market on Sept. 15!

Bi/pan+ craftspeople, vintage clothing and objects resellers, tarot readers, artists and makers and vendors of all kinds are welcome to apply by emailing [email protected] with a description and pictures of what you'd like to sell. Imbibe and will curate vendors from applicants based on amount of space. (Note there will be the usual small fee for vending at a JP VAM market.)

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09/02/2022

We're throwing a dance party for Celebrate Bis*xuality Day!

Tickets on sale at http://imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com

DJ lineup to be announced :)

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09/02/2022

For Bis*xual+ Awareness Week, we're bringing you not one, not two, but three events!

(Insert jokes about bis*xuals being unable to chose/bis*xuality being not just about two options (e.g. bis*xuality is about how there are more than two options for s*xuality).)

First up, on September 15, from 6-9 pm we have a bi/pan+ mixer and vintage & artisanal market in collaboration with , at Turtle Swamp Brewing. Come intermingle with bi+ people and buy from bi+ makers and vendors! If you're interested in vending, please email [email protected] with a description and pictures of what you'd like to sell.

On September 20, we'll have another bi/pan+ board game night - this time at Turtle Swamp Brewing in JP from 6 to 9 pm.

And finally, what many of you hav been waiting for - on September 23, for Celebrate Bis*xuality+ Day, we're throwing another dance party at Union Tavern! Tickets on sale at imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com

We can't wait to share space and community with you all again this month!

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09/01/2022

is coming up September 16-23, but before we announce our plans for the week we want to thank each and every one of you for joining us on this journey in bi/pan/q***r community so far.

Thanks to each of you who have shown up to something. Thanks to each of you who have liked or shared our posts. Thanks to each of you who who have shared a message of support or how having this space has impacted you. We appreciate you all so much - you're why we do this!

We've been continuously blown away by y'all, and how many of you show up or voiced support. We wanter bi/pan community, and we can't do that without you - so thank you!

We're about to announce our September events later tonight, with more details to follow. Sign up for our email list (link in bio) to be the first to get additional information about our upcoming events (and to get a signal boost of other bi+ and q***r events from other organizations like the Bis*xual Resource Center, Q***r Theatre Project, and Bo***ir Q***r DJ Collective).

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08/20/2022

We have another board game night for the bi/pan community coming up this Thursday at ! We can't wait to see you there.

xoxo, Imbibe

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08/19/2022

If you can't get enough of hanging out with bi/pan+ q***r folks, in addition to our party tonight at Union Tavern, we're hosting another board game night next Thursday evening at Aeronaut Brewery!

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08/16/2022

This Friday, catch Imbibe's inaugural
party at featuring the beats
of . Get your tickets at imbibe-
dance.eventbrite.com (link in bio).
Looking forward to dancing surrounded by other
bis*xuals, without judgement or erasure!
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08/16/2022

This Friday, catch Imbibe's inaugural party at featuring the beats of . Get your tickets at imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com (link in bio).

Looking forward to dancing surrounded by other bis*xuals, without judgement or erasure!

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08/04/2022

to our bi/pan+ board game night last week! It was a lot of fun and a great time getting some bi/mspec babes from all around the Boston area. Thanks for joining us!

Looking forward to see you at our next event: Union Tavern on August 19, 8pm-1am ft. ! Get your tickets now at imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com

And we're hosting another board game night on August 25, 7pm-10pm.

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07/21/2022

Announcing the dj for our inaugural bi/pan+ night:

For our bi/pan/non-monos*xual q***r affinity group events, we think it's important to platform (and pay) djs and artists who are part of that community too. So get extra excited for the beats of DJ Mad Dog!

Get your tickets at imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com (link in bio), and we'll see you on August 19 at Union Tavern!

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07/19/2022

Tickets for the first Imbibe bi/pan+ dance night are now available on Eventbrite at https://imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com (or DM us for Venmo information).

Buying tickets in advance helps us budget and plan for the evening, so we'd really appreciate it! And since capacity is limited, buying tickets in advance is also the best way to make sure to reserve your spot.

If you'll be attending, as we keep an eye on the highly contagious Omicron BA.5, please take a rapid test the evening of or a PCR test within 24 hours before and don't come if you have a positive result.

Can't wait to see you there!
xoxo Imbibe

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07/14/2022

Let's dance!

tickets: imbibe-dance.eventbrite.com

Join us for our first dance party!

August 19, 8pm-1am at Union Tavern

$8 in advance, $10 at the door.

This night is for people who have s*xual and/or romantic orientations under the bi+ umbrella, including pan, omni, and other multis*xual 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. Monos*xual 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.

Why are we organizing bi+ community events?

Bi+ people face a specific form of oppression, monos*xism, 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 q***r 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 s*xual orientation.

Despite being the numerical majority of the q***r community, and despite facing this added oppression from monos*xism, we rarely if ever have community and events that center us. Instead, we are expected to find community in groups centering monos*xual gay and le***an 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!

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In preparation for our Bi/Pan+ Pride Party tonight, here's a flashback to our last Bi/Pan+ party! In honor of Bi+ Health Month and Trans Day of Visibility, a room full of Bi/Pan+ folks connected with each other and swayed to a soundscape selected by @beets.bi.blaire in March. We had so much fun then, and are looking forward to another night of healing community and movement with you all in just a few hours!

Dreaming about being back on the dance floor in bisexual lighting with @miracleravermango during #BiWeek! Stay tuned for the immediate release of information about our Bi+ Variety Show on November 11th! #bi #pan #bi+ #bisexual #bisexualculture #bisexualcommunity #pansexualpride #pansexuals #bisexualpride #biromantic #panromantic #omnisexual #omniromantic #lgbtq #queer #bipride #💖💜💙 #queerart #bivisibility

Imbibe @uniontavernsomerville on Aug. 19 was incredible! Thanks to our DJs @dj__maddog and @jackie_thort for curating immaculate bi vibes. Stay tuned for more happenings!

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