Bisexuality Curriculum

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Interweave Continental has created a new four-session curriculum on bisexuality, creatively titled The Bisexuality Curriculum. It is designed to be used in adult religious education, Small Group Ministry, or with youth or young adult groups. See below for more on The Curriculum and its goals.

The Curriculum is available only as a PDF file, and is free to anyone who wishes to use it. See below for information on downloading!

Many thanks to the UU Funding Program for funding this project.

 

Downloading The Bisexuality Curriculum

We want The Bisexuality Curriculum used widely, hence we provide it free of charge. We only ask three simple things of you in return:

  • You let us know your contact information before downloading so we can keep track of the congregations using it.
  • You send us comments and ideas for improvement when you have finished using it.
  • You direct anyone else who's interested in The Curriculum to this page instead of sending them your copy (making copies is OK and encouraged within your congregation).

To get a copy of the Bisexuality Curriculum (in PDF format), copy-and-paste the following questions into an email, answer them, and send it to:

RequestBisexualityCurriculum (at) yahoogroups (dot) com

Once we receive your email, we'll send you a link to the file and you will be well on your way to happy downloading! 

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  • We will NOT pass on any of your personal information without your permission.
  • You do NOT have to be a member of a UU congregation to download and use the curriculum. We DO ask you to direct other people, congregations, and organizations to this web page instead of distributing copies of the curriculum, so that we have people's contact information and can notify them to download a new copy when we update the curriculum.
  • The congregation(s) and organization(s) with which you use this curriculum do NOT have to be certified as Welcoming Congregations or Welcoming Organizations by the UUA's Office of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Concerns to use the curriculum. This information is just to allow us to compile statistics on the organization(s) that are using the curriculum. This information allows us to tell the UU Funding Program the kinds of organizations that their grant enabled us to reach and convince prospective grantors of the effectiveness of our programs and curricula.

 

From The Curriculum's Introduction

Welcome to the wonderful, complicated world of bisexuality. We are glad you have decided to take the risk to learn more, be moved, be startled, and be accepting. Bisexuals and bisexuality are part of life — congregational and societal. We are everywhere.

This curriculum can be used in any size congregation, whether or not your congregation has already done The Welcoming Congregation program and been certified as a Welcoming Congregation. Bisexuals are entering (or have entered) our doors everywhere. Just as we want to be hospitable to everyone who walks through our doors, we know that it is especially important to be welcoming to those who may be oppressed in our larger society, who are looking for peace and spiritual refreshment as part of a religious community.

Because of The Welcoming Congregation curriculum and same sex marriage work being done in our congregations, the issues of bisexuals and bisexuality have come into the forefront. Since the Unitarian Universalist Association’s General Assembly first passed a resolution concerning equal rights for persons of nonstraight sexual orientations in 1970, bisexuals within our denomination have continued to work for acceptance and understanding. This curriculum, generously paid for by the Unitarian Universalist Funding Panel, is an outgrowth of that work.

Interweave Continental, the Unitarian Universalist organization for bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender concerns, put together a team of bisexuals to create this four session curriculum for use in your adult religious education, exploration, and enrichment programs. Through discussion, activities, games, and reflection, we hope you come to a deeper understanding of how our sexual orientations (whatever they are) affect our lives, and the lives of those around us.

 

Goals

  • Familiarize participants with bisexuality and some of the various definitions and descriptions bisexuals use for themselves.
  • Give participants the knowledge and language to counter assumptions and stereotypes they may hear.
  • Place bisexuality in a context and examine its relationships to other sexual orientations, questions of gender identity, and polyamory and polyfidelity.
  • Show the links between various oppressions.
  • Make it easier for bisexuals to be out, accepted, and understood.
  • Empower participants to make their congregations, organizations, and wider communities more just and welcoming.
  • Do all of this within a space that is safe and friendly where participants enjoy each other’s company and get to know one another.

 

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