BiLines: A Bi+ Visibility Day Event

Celebrate Bi+ Visibility Day with Sydney Bi+ Network at BiLines on 21 September. BiLines is our annual story sharing event to celebrate bi+ people and communities, our unique experiences and joys.

BiLines 2024 explores and celebrates the many ways we defy societal norms. This year’s event is all about how we create our own uniquely bi+ and beautiful stories. How we don't have to conform to mainstream narratives of who we are, how we live, and what's possible for our communities. We're highlighting how we challenge the status quo to build a world where we can love deeply, live freely, and care for community.

This event is free, however we ask that you please register to help us with numbers, as the venue has a maximum capacity for COVID safety. 

Who this event is for:

BiLines is for anyone who experiences attraction to more than one gender, in any way, to any degree. We welcome people who are bi+, bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer, omnisexual, polysexual, biromantic, panromantic, gay, lesbian, questioning, and more. We welcome people who use more than one label to describe themselves, people who use no labels, and people who use other languages or terminology to describe themselves. We also recognise that bi+ folks and the people who love them can experience unique barriers to inclusion and invite bi+ allies, partners, friends, family (biological or chosen) members and loved ones into the group. 

Accessibility Information: 

The event will be interpreted by Auslan interpreters. The venue has wheelchair access available, including ramps up to the front door. The room has an air purifier and masks will be available. If you have any accessibility questions or concerns, send us an email at syd.bi.network@gmail or send us a message via our social media. 

Getting to the Venue: 

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre is located at 11-13 Darley Street, which is off the south end of King Street. The closest train station is St Peters, which is about 300m away on a mostly flat route. Alternatively, Newtown Station is about 1km away, also a mostly flat route. There is limited parking available. 

Lineup: 

We are thrilled to welcome our lineup of incredible bicons! 

Lee Constable (MC) (she/they): Lee Constable is a science and sustainability presenter, edu-tainer and author. Her work includes hosting kids science TV Show 'Scope' (Network 10) and 'Explainer Hacks' (ABC Education). She also appeared on War on Waste Season 3 (ABC). Lee is the author of two superhero adventures through science and sustainability topics for kids, 'How to Save the Whole Stinkin' Planet' and 'How to Save the Whole Blinkin' Planet'. Lee enjoys combining arts and science in projects like Co-Lab: Science Meets Street Art, performances as their alter ego Milton Mango, and comedic climate communication initiatives. You can find Lee constantly babbling about science, sustainability, society and where they collide on all social platforms as @Constababble.

Will Cooper (he/they): Will Cooper is a proud Wiradjuri/Yorta Yorta person from the south west slopes of New South Wales. A creative by profession, whose career has seen them undertake a variety of communication, marketing and event work primarily within the First Nations space where they currently are the PR Advisor for the Healing Foundation, a national body responsible for the carriage of Australia’s Stolen Generations work.

Will is passionate about First Nations visibility which has seen them work with Buzzfeed, Gali Swimwear, Pinterest, Teamm8, Daily Jocks amongst others to ensure diverse First Nations representation in advertising and commercial activities including writing for popular First Nations media outlet Indigenous X.

Will is also a proud HIV ally ambassador for the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation and also plays for Sydney’s inclusive Rugby Union team, the Sydney Convicts.

Bryson Eli (he/him): Bryson is a proud bi man. He's also trans, neurodivergent, and disabled. At 19, he came out as bi and hasn't managed to make friends with a straight person since. He loves writing, philosophy, singing (badly), Australian indie rock, and spending time with his queer family. A life goal of his is to find pad Thai as good as some he had in Canberra once.

Miranda Aguilar (they/them): Miranda Aguilar is a queer, Filipinx writer for screen stage and beyond. They live on Dharawal land and proudly support Western Sydney-based artists and story-tellers as a creative producer and community arts worker with the multi-arts organisation CuriousWorks. They write scripts and stories for soft-spoken brown weirdoes, spicy gay nerds, and hopeful pessimists.

Rowan Savage (he/him): salllvage (Rowan Savage) is a proud Kombumerri man, living on Wangal Land. He is an experimental producer and DJ working at the intersection of queer club culture and connection with Country. His work mutates on-Country field recordings into electronica, and inhabits and bridges the tensions between abstraction and emotion, the wild bush and the dancefloor, the personal and the social, authenticity and reconstruction

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Sydney Bi+ Network acknowledges that we live, organise, and connect on lands that were stolen. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation where this event will be held