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Self classification
There is an Instagram meme of sorts going around my friends’ stories. I’ve seen it several times now (and in a few iterations); perhaps you have also seen it yourself. The gist is basically this: you’re presented with a series of lines, each offering a spectrum of various sex and gender identities, and invited to…
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You can’t understand yourself through a straight/gay binary
The Journal of Bisexuality has just published a very interesting paper by Rosie Nelson that deconstructs the notion of “straight-passing privilege” using very academic language and heady theory. You can read it yourself — it goes over a number of concepts I’ve thought about in my essays for this project — but the reason I…
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Specificity lost
Loyola Marymount University’s LGBTQ+ Victory Institute has just released a report on the experiences of LGBTQ+ women in politics and it is… predictably grim. Queer women are more likely to be discouraged from running or worried about harassment than their queer male peers (with trans women in particular experiencing this); while on the campaign trail,…
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I’m not sick, but I’m not well
Little by little, it feels like some of the mysteries of the bisexual experience are starting to be unwound. It’s been — well, not common knowledge, but well-documented with research for several years now that bisexuals are, uh, not doing so hot. Compared to monosexuals, we tend to be sicker, both physically and mentally, and…
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Fear of a bisexual woman
My inbox continues to be filled with — often panicked, often right wing — reactions to Gallup’s (honestly really predictable, given trends of the past few years) report about an increasingly LGBTQ, and more specifically, increasingly bisexual America. I’m not going to link to any of them — why would I clutter your brain space…
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If lying about being bisexual were all it took to be cool, everyone would be doing it
So I’m still thinking about the latest Gallup report on American queer identity, and specifically the repeatedly cited stat that nearly 30% of Gen Z women identify as some kind of queer — and over 20% of Gen Z women identify as bisexual specifically. If you are masochistic enough to pore through all the coverage…
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The coming collision
Every year around this time, Gallup releases the results of its annual report on sexual and gender identity in the US; a report it first started doing in 2012*. And in the time that I personally started paying attention to this annual event, it has always been accompanied by a flurry of press noting that…
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By any other name
So there is this Instagram glitch where sometimes, when someone texts you a link to a reel, clicking the link does not bring you to the reel they were linking to, but instead just randomly pulls up a totally different reel — and I mean completely randomly, like, every time you click the link, it…
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And then there were zero
It feels strange to say this, but it was only five years ago that America had a historic number of openly bisexual members of Congress. Yes, that historic number was two, and yes, they were both blond cis women who’d mostly been romantically linked to men. It was an imperfect win, but it felt like…
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The youth are not the only bisexual voice
As you may have heard, the youngs are very bisexual: with every generation, it seems like more and more people are openly bi. Add to this the fact that with age tends to come monogamous marriage — not always, but that is a general trend — and with it the baggage of the dreaded bisexual…