10 Minute Activism

Suppose you had ten minutes to spare to help the bi movement, not every day or every week, just now and again... what could you do?

Come out to someone
Put up a poster
Email a newspaper
Update your LJ
Talk to a friend
Donate to a bi organisation
Read a web forum or mailing list
Make another activist a cuppa
Make a badge
Sign a petition
Take a photo of something bi-related
Talk to people at work
Steal someone else's idea
Put on a bi t-shirt or badge
Request a bi-related book at the library
Proof read something
Drop off flyers en route somewhere
Introduce yourself to an activist and ask how you can help next time you have ten minutes to spare

OK, suppose you could spare an hour or so, perhaps every couple of months... so just a few times a year...
Attend something - bi group, LG group etc
Read BCN
Be visible
Update your LJ or blog with something more substantial e.g. a writeup of
bifest
Write a short article or a press release whether for BCN, the LG or
wider press
Engage in a discussion on a web forum
Make a few dozen badges
Other craft activity e.g. making bi-flag coloured friendship bracelet
Drop off flyers
Write to your MP or council(lor) on a bi issue
Be the out bi person at a meeting

Suppose you had a bit more time than that and could give over a day, once every few months....
Write a longer article
Attend a bifest
Go on a flyering run
Run a workshop at a group or event
Make posters, flyers or teeshirts
Go on a Pride march
Run a stall at Pride or something non-LGBT like a local international
women's week event
Work with others on making a bi banner
Ostentatiously read a bi book on a train

So you get hooked by the activism bug and decide that you can give it a day or a night once each month....
Attend or run a local bi group
Design, then print, then distribute, a new poster campaign
Do lots of the things that take ten minutes or an hour!
Be a bi rep at a non-bi organisation
Work on a chapter for a book
Maintain a bi website
Research bi history
Translate resources into another language you are fluent in
Put on a fundraising event for a bi organisation
Do a photo shoot for online / printed resources
Co-ordinate other people's activism eg by goading them to take turns to write a column for a local gay paper

Jen

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