It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks
Featured Speakers
Lake Shearing (author) & Mel Reeve
*Please note that as with all indoor lighthouse events, masks are to be worn at this event.
Join us to celebrate an essay collection exploring the diversity of bisexual identity - as it relates to class, religion, ethnicity, religion, sex and politics - and how it can disrupt and challenge binary and exclusionary ways of thinking.
Erudite, provocative, and wide-ranging, this is both a call to action and a middle finger to bi-erasure!
Our Speakers
Mel Reeve (she/her) is a writer and lapsed archivist living in Glasgow. As an archivist, she has worked on a wide variety of projects, with organizations such as the National Library of Scotland, Glasgow Women’s Library and more. She runs the Bi History project (@BiHistory), which aims to celebrate and preserve the history of the bisexual+ community.
As a writer, her work has been published widely, including by 404 Ink, The Skinny, Autostraddle, and more. Winner of the Glasgow Women's Library Bold Types prize, 2020, shortlisted for the Alpine Writer’s Prize 2024, and shortlisted for the Creative Future Writer’s Award 2023.
Editor for Fear of Making Art Press (@fomapress), and has created several popular zines, including a sold-out exploration of queer medieval history through fact and fiction. She hosts the podcast Not Your Typical Climber and can be found on social media @melreeve and at home with her beloved cat.
Lake Shearing is the author of Bi The Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life, and co-editor of It Ain’t Over Til the Bisexual Speaks: an anthology of bisexual voices. Their second book, Pink Pilled: Women and the far right is out February 2025. They are also a freelance journalist with their writing on sexuality and politics having appeared in Cosmopolitan, Gay Times, DIVA, Metro, The Advocate, and the Independent, among others.
They are the founder of the Bi Survivors Network, a peer-to-peer support network for bi and pan survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence, and are an active community organiser in the London bisexual scene.
