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Posts tagged bisexual

Apr 26 '13
We demand random capital letters! We demand hyphens! We demand the right to use the word “with” in unusual contexts! We demand the right to be crap at basic logic! Here endeth the bi agenda. [the picure’s from an article on pinknews.co.uk. It’s a photo of part of a Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child leaflet apparently endorsed by a UKIP candidate] ETA: I wish I’d put a note on here to point out how gross anti-polyamory rhetoric is. Because it is gross and completely unacceptable. It really marginalises poly bis (as well as loads of other ppl obvs).

We demand random capital letters! We demand hyphens! We demand the right to use the word “with” in unusual contexts! We demand the right to be crap at basic logic!

Here endeth the bi agenda.

[the picure’s from an article on pinknews.co.uk. It’s a photo of part of a Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child leaflet apparently endorsed by a UKIP candidate]

ETA: I wish I’d put a note on here to point out how gross anti-polyamory rhetoric is. Because it is gross and completely unacceptable. It really marginalises poly bis (as well as loads of other ppl obvs).

3 notes Tags: bisexual biphobia bisexuals bisexuality bi rights bisexual rights UKIP LGBT rights queer Staffordshire David Nixon Society For the Protection of the unborn child homophobia lgbt

Mar 31 '13

There’s a bi group in Utah called the 1 to 5 club (named after the Kinsey Scale).

What would the equivalent be for the Klein Grid?

Pls RT/ask your mathsy friends.

8 notes Tags: bi bisexual queer LGBT bisexuality Klein Grid Kinsey Scale

Mar 19 '13
© ROBERT MCCARRON Can someone remind me where this mural is/was in Brighton? ETA: apparently it’s on the side of this Tesco Express in Kemptown.

© ROBERT MCCARRON

Can someone remind me where this mural is/was in Brighton?

ETA: apparently it’s on the side of this Tesco Express in Kemptown.

1 note Tags: Brighton Brighton and Hove Hove East Sussex Sussex Kemp Town gay lesbian bisexual transgender queer LGBT mural murals St James Street Dorset Gardens

Feb 13 '13

yay! time for another of amo’s random bi audits!

Flicking through Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (third edition, naturally). Still have it from a course that I ended up not doing, ages ago.

Anyway, heterosexuality, homosexual, homosexuality, lesbianism, and queer theory all get indexed (most of them many, many times). Bisexuality and related words get zero mentions in the index.

That’s despite Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, Oscar Wide, Alice Walker, Gore Vidal, William Shakespeare, Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, Vita Sackville-West, Kate Millet, Byron and Aubrey Beardsley all featuring. (As well as probs loads of other bis / bi-ish ppl whose names I don’t recognise.)

18 notes Tags: bi erasure bisexual erasure bisexuality queer bisexual LGBT Andrew Bennett Nicholas Royle

Feb 7 '13

What a charming coincidence. This month’s Brighton Bothways coffee meet is on the same day as the Science of Sex event being held round the corner :)

Saturday 9th Feb - come to both!

The Science of Sex is part of @BrightonScienceFest. I’ll be there cos I’m a sex nerd and it’s only £10 (or £8 concessions).

The coffee meet is from 3-5pm, come whenever you can, drop-in/drop-out, for everyone attracted to more than one gender (as well as for our allies).

It’s at the Redroaster cafe. They do good cake (including a little gluten-free).

Sometimes ppl hang around/ go the pub to afterwards. If anyone wanted to plan to do that so as not to miss bits of the SoS event, then it couldn’t hurt to post about it in the coffee meet fb group as there may be others who’d like to as well eg moi :D

*It’s pretty annoying how tumblr keeps double-posting pics atm, huh? Decided to leave it this time seeing as it’s appropriate tho :)

10 notes Tags: Brighton Brighton Science Festival The Science of Sex bi bisexual queer Brighton Bothways bisexuality LGBT Brooke Magnanti Susan Quilliam Malcolm Vandenburg Meg Barker sex Sallis Benney Theatre sex education Charlie Bauer Petra Boynton Feona Attwood Emily Dubberley Benedict Garrett

Feb 2 '13
“Nicola Field describes how in 1991 people attending a bisexual conference were allowed to party at a London gay club—on the condition that there would be no heterosexual behaviour: ‘The organisers spent the evening watching the dance floor nervously, hoping that none of the conference participants would disgrace themselves and snog with someone of the other sex’.”
— Rachel Aldred

(Source: pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk)

74 notes Tags: bi bisexual biphobia queer LGBT Nicola Field Rachel Aldred Over the Rainbow: Money Class and Homophobia

Jan 30 '13
“This reminds me of when I was in my obligatory Wesleyan bisexual phase, and a woman (or wymyn) told me I was too femmy to go to LBQ (those are all the initials we had back then) meetings. None other than JUDITH BUTLER, who was teaching at Wes at the time, took me aside and said that people come in all shapes, sizes, orientations and I could go to any damn meeting I wanted. As I recall, she said her girlfriend at the time was a dead ringer for Cybil Shepard.”
— Ayelet Waldman - lol she posted in this on her fb while sharing that “Get Out of My Gay Bar, Straight Girl” Jezebel piece from a few weeks ago.

(Source: facebook.com)

9 notes Tags: femme femmephobia Ayelet Waldman Judith Butler Wesleyan queer bi bisexual LGBT LBQ

Jan 30 '13
“Similar to the term queer, the word bisexual “has several meanings, all of which overlap with one another and are sometimes used interchangeably.”
— Playing with Butler and Foucault: Bisexuality and Queer Theory by April S Callis, Journal of Bisexuality (2009)

27 notes Tags: bi bisexual queer LGBT April S Callis Journal of Bisexuality bisexuality not quite sure who Callis is quoting but w/e queer theory

Jan 14 '13

Do you reckon we all imagine Sappho in our image?

6 notes Tags: Sappho queer bi bisexual lesbian gay Sapphism

Sep 30 '12

At the Bi Visibility Day event, @BiCommunityNews editor @JenYockney spoke briefly about @google lifting their ban on the word bisexual in autocomplete and instant search.

It has been suggested at @bi_media that the ban was only lifted in the US, but she said that it was difficult to know if that was actually true. What if it just doesn’t display any suggestions cos it’s not learned to yet?

So here’s the important part: she asked everyone to google phrases starting with word bisexual so that google learns what phrases people might want to see in autocomplete/instantsearch.

Obvs, Bi Community News is in the UK, but perhaps it’s important to do in all countries?

I’ve done it (in google.co.uk), will continue to do it and you should too! Pass the message on! Signal-boost!

I can’t remember all the phrases Jen suggested, but here a list of suggestions which probably includes some of them:

  • bisexual community
  • bisexual [town/city/country]
  • bisexual health
  • bisexual mental health
  • bisexual activism
  • bisexual group
  • bisexual support
  • bisexual information
  • bisexual [gender]
  • bisexual discrimination

Please do add some to the list if you think of any.

13 notes Tags: bi bisexual bisexuality queer bisexual community LGBT LGBT+ google