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A campaign for the visibility of bisexual people in the Netherlands. Known mostly by the Dutch title "Ik ben bi+zonder".

In the Netherlands over 1 million people identify as bi+; they're attracted to more than one gender. That's a lot of people!
However, a lot of bi+ people don't feel at home in straight or queer communities. They don't feel seen: people assume other people are straight or gay and therefore can't be bi+ at all, or think bisexuality is a phase. Besides, the bi+ orientation still hasn't been added into the Dutch law: Algemene wet gelijke behandeling. Therefore the orientation isn't protected and people are technically allowed to discriminate based on bisexuality and biromanticism. 

To make themselves more visible, bisexual people have decided to share their stories with you. 
A consequence of the invisibility and stereortypes surrounding bisexuality is an increased amount of sexual assault geared towards bisexual people. This amount isn't small either; almost 16% of all bisexual women in the Netherlands experienced sexual assault within the last year, varrying from unwanted touch to rape. 
Statistically, bi+ people also experience depression more often than other people, and bisexual women attempt suicide more often than people with other orientations. 

With the campaign ‘Ik ben bi+zonder’ (I am extraorbi+nary), a collaboration between the young creators of The Rainbow Academy, The NJR, and Bi+Nederland, they want to share bi+ stories to show off their colourful and pluriform community, and ask for acceptance within society. Their stories will travel throughout the Netherlands in 2022. 

The first location of the exhibition opens on Bi Visibility Day, the 23rd of September, in
Amsterdam. On the 7th of October the exhibition will move to Goes, on the 21st of October it will move again to Utrecht, and from the 4th of November to the 18th of November it can be found on the Garenmarkt in Leiden.

If you want to know more, follow this link!