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Binibining Pilipinas 2026
Binibining Pilipinas 2026 is the 62nd edition of the Philippine national beauty pageant run by BPCI, held July 18, 2026 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum with 36 candidates, staged by Stella Marquez Araneta's organization that lost its Miss Universe franchise in 2019.
Biphobia
Biphobia is prejudice and discrimination against bisexual people, also called binegativity; related to monosexism and bi-erasure, it comes from both straight and gay/lesbian communities and is linked to bisexual mental health disparities.
Birmingham campaign
Birmingham campaign, or Project C, was the April-May 1963 SCLC-ACMHR nonviolent campaign against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, led by King, Abernathy, and Shuttlesworth, whose Children's Crusade and police dogs-and-hoses imagery drove the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Bisexual erasure
Bisexual erasure (bi erasure, bisexual invisibility) is the ignoring, falsifying, or reexplaining of bisexuality as gay or straight. Covers Yoshino's epistemic contract, gendered stereotypes, media tropes, and health disparities.
Bisexual flag
Bisexual flag: pink, purple, blue pride flag designed by Michael Page, unveiled 5 December 1998 at BiCafe; 2:1:2 stripes with colors from Liz Nania's biangles; BiNet USA's 2020 copyright claim was dropped.
Bisexual lighting
Bisexual lighting: use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, matching the bisexual pride flag, in film, TV, and music to signal bisexuality; originated in a 2014 Tumblr post about Sherlock, peaked 2016-2018, and was used deliberately in Heartstopper.
Bisexuality
Bisexuality (bi): romantic, emotional, or sexual attraction to more than one gender. Distinct from pansexuality; largest LGBTQ+ identity (5.3% of U.S. adults); faces bi-erasure and elevated mental health disparities.
Black bloc
Black bloc: a masked, all-black protest tactic, not an organization, originating with West Berlin squatters (Schwarzer Block, 1980) and the Autonomen; famous for Seattle 1999, Genoa 2001, and swarming property damage.
Black Consciousness Movement
Black Consciousness Movement (BCM): South African anti-apartheid movement of the late 1960s-1970s led by Steve Biko; founded via SASO (1969), BPC (1972); emphasized psychological liberation, inclusive 'blackness', inspired the 1976 Soweto Uprising.
Black feminism
Black feminism is a tradition of thought and activism by Black women analyzing interlocking racism, sexism, and class oppression; key texts include the 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement and Crenshaw's 1989 intersectionality.
Black genocide in the United States
Black genocide in the United States: contested claim that slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration amount to genocide. Centered on the 1948 UN intent definition and the 1951 Civil Rights Congress UN petition; no legal determination has been made.
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter (BLM): decentralized US-founded movement begun in 2013 as #BlackLivesMatter after Zimmerman's acquittal, protesting police violence against Black people, with chapters, the BLM Global Network Foundation, the M4BL coalition, and 2020 global protests.
Black Manosphere
The Black manosphere is the branch of the anti-feminist manosphere populated by Black men defending Black male authority; known for Fresh and Fit creators, patriarchal gender scripts, and Pick-Me women creators.
Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party (BPP), originally Black Panther Party for Self-Defense: revolutionary Black nationalist-socialist organization founded Oct 15, 1966, in Oakland by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; known for armed self-defense, the Ten-Point Program, free breakfast and health clinics, and FBI COINTELPRO repression.
Black people and Mormonism
Black people and Mormonism covers Black members of the Latter Day Saint movement and the LDS priesthood and temple restriction of 1852 to 1978, its Cain and Ham justifications, the 1978 Official Declaration 2 revelation, and the 2013 disavowal of past racial theories.
Black Power movement in Bermuda
The Black Power movement in Bermuda was an anticolonial youth movement against British colonialism and the island's white oligarchy in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Black separatism
Black separatism is the strand of Black nationalism advocating separate institutions, or a separate nation, for Black people, historically via the Nation of Islam, Republic of New Africa, and Garveyism; distinct from community nationalism, it rarely demands territorial exit from the United States.
Black supremacy
Black supremacy: a racist belief in Black racial superiority and dominance, analogous to white supremacy. Article distinguishes it from Black nationalism, Black Power, and separatism, and covers the scholarly dispute over labeling black nationalist groups as hate groups.
Black Twitter
Black Twitter is the informal name for the networked community of African American Twitter users, named in a 2009 Medium article. Known for hashtag campaigns #BlackLivesMatter, #OscarsSoWhite, and #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, and its influence on US news media.
Blacklisting
Blacklisting: systematic denial of employment via lists of politically or union-troublesome people; also called black list. Spans 1880s US labor blacklists, AGLOSO, the Hollywood blacklist, and UK construction blacklisting.
Blackout Tuesday
Blackout Tuesday, June 2, 2020, a music-industry protest from #TheShowMustBePaused by Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang; black Instagram squares tagged #BlackLivesMatter drowned out activist information.
Blanchard's transsexualism typology
Blanchard's transsexualism typology, also called the autogynephilia theory, is Ray Blanchard's classification of male-to-female transsexualism into androphilic and non-homosexual (autogynephilic) types, defined by erotic arousal at the thought of oneself as a woman; it remains scientifically influential and controversial.
Blood brother
Blood brother: a person bound by a blood pact, a ritual exchange of blood creating an alliance between unrelated people. Known from Herodotus, African ethnography, and modern practice; classified as ritual kinship, with hepatitis transmission risk.
Blood is thicker than water
Blood is thicker than water: an English proverb (Chinese 血浓于水, Korean 피는 물보다 진하다) meaning family ties outrank other bonds; first in English print as "Blude's thicker than water" (Ramsay, 1737), popularized by Scott's Guy Mannering (1815); the covenant "reversal" is a modern invention.
Blue Lives Matter
Blue Lives Matter is a pro-police countermovement founded in the United States in 2014 in response to Black Lives Matter; it advocates hate crime statutes covering police, enacted in Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Texas.
Blue Square Alliance Against Hate
Blue Square Alliance Against Hate (BSA), formerly the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, is Robert Kraft's 2019-founded 501(c)(3) nonprofit fighting antisemitism via the Blue Square symbol, Super Bowl ads, the Gillette Stadium Command Center, and the semiannual U.S. Antisemitism Landscape Survey.
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale (Robert George Seale, born October 22, 1936) co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland in 1966, served as Chairman, faced the Chicago Eight and New Haven trials, ran for Oakland mayor in 1973, and wrote Seize the Time.
Bobrisky
Bobrisky (Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, born 1992) is a Nigerian social media influencer known as a crossdresser and described as a trans woman, known for the 2024 Best Dressed Female controversy and a six-month naira-abuse prison sentence.
Body odour and sexual attraction
Body odour and sexual attraction: the MHC/HLA "sweaty T-shirt" mate-choice hypothesis, fertility scent cues, and human pheromone claims. Wedekind's 1995 study reported MHC-dissimilarity preferences, but 2020 meta-analyses find no overall effect.
Bohemianism
Bohemianism, from French la bohème (a term for the Romani), is the unconventional art-centered lifestyle of nineteenth-century Parisian artists defined by Henri Murger and opposed to bourgeois society, later spreading to Greenwich Village and becoming the commercialized boho chic.