Much of substantial bisexual activism and literature is driven and led by Black bisexuals, who are often under resourced and underrepresented. We'd like to take an opportunity to hear from two Black bisexual activists and writers.
Join Bi+ Georgia for Bi Lines: Black Bi Writers in Conversation with Khafre Kujichagulia Abif and Dr. Herukhuti. This conversation will be a look into their perspectives and experiences as writers, activists, and Black bisexual men.
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Khafre K. Abif, MLS is an activist, writer, editor, blogger, and artist. He is the founder and executive director of Cycle for Freedom, Inc., a national mobilizing campaign founded in 2010 to reduce the spread of HIV among African Americans and Latino’s. As a librarian, Khafre was the first recipient of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Dr. John C. Tyson Emerging Leader Award. He was the Director of the Langston Hughes Library for the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) at the former Alex Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee. Khafre is the former Manager of Children’s Services, at the Brooklyn Public Library, New York. Khafre has been involved in many other community projects including his service as Project Director of the Healthy Black Family Project at the University of Pittsburgh and other work nationally with HIV/AIDS prevention and education efforts, including the Southern AIDS Coalition and others. Khafre is currently an organizer with Bi+ Georgia.
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H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams, PhD., M.Ed., known as Dr. Herukhuti, is a cultural studies scholar, sex researcher-educator, systems theorist, cultural worker (i.e., filmmaker, playwright, poet, and performance artist), interdisciplinary sociocultural scientist, and hem netcher tepi (priest-conjurer-healer in the Kemetic/Ancient Egyptian tradition) whose work operates at the intersection of race, culture, sexuality and spirituality. In September 2013, as a member of a group of bisexual researchers, leaders and activists invited to a bisexual community issues and public policy roundtable at the White House, Dr. Herukhuti co-presented on the topic of HIV and bisexuals. In 2015, he was a co-organizer of a similar event at the White House and co-author of a set of public policy briefs prepared for the event and that provided the basis for Invisible Majority: The Disparities Facing Bisexual People and How to Remedy Them.
In addition to his grassroots activism, he has been an organizer including as co-founder and the inaugural co-chair of Global Youth Connect, an international human rights organization for youth. Dr. Herukhuti is the author of the book Conjuring Black Funk: Notes on Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality, Volume I (Vintage Entity Press). He is the award-winning co-editor of the Lambda Literary Award nonfiction finalist anthology and Bisexual Book Awards nonfiction and anthology winner Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men (Bisexual Resource Center) and Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred: Bisexual, Pansexual and Polysexual Perspectives (Routledge).
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