Can you make the ‘can’t we have all the food?!’ rebloggable, please?
Very Serious Responses To Unintelligent Insults
Submit a biphobic comment with your own wonderous spin on it! After all, the arguments against the existence of bisexuality are so ridiculous, they deserve equally nonsensical replies.
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I came out as bi for the very first time today and I just felt I needed to share it somewhere and I didn't know where cause I'm only out to one person >.< I was having a deep conversation with my best friend and it just kind of happened. She was so accepting and I couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the day :D
Asked by Anonymous
SO BRAVE
SO PERF
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Photo reblogged from The Queerest Blog on the Block
Polish journalist to be deported by the USA due to his bisexuality
Ivo Widlak is a Polish-born bisexual man who’s been in the US since 2001 and has been married to his bisexual wife Lale for 10 years. After getting angry about an article he had written about some corruption, someone in the Polish community of Chicago informed the office of Immigration that he was a homosexual and not really married to his wife. He and his wife very angrily deny this.
They are happy to explain over and over (and over and over and over) that it is true they are both openly bisexual. And that as bisexual people they fell in love and are have chosen to be happily and monogamously married. But still the Immigration people persist in saying they are gay and the marriage is a fake.
This truly seems to be a case of the law not understanding or respecting the reality of the bisexual orientation. If Ivo was in a same sex relationship, he would not be deported for the Obama administration has stated that foreigners who are same-sex partners of American citizens can be included under an Obama administration policy suspending deportations of some immigrants who pose no security risk. If Ivo was straight he would also be safe, but because he and his wife are both bisexual their marriage, love and ability to live in the US is threatened.
Yet again — So much 4 all that “Heterosexual Privilege” that all bisexual have … hmmmm?
Things To Do:
- HELP US GET THE WORD OUT - they have been trying to do this in Silence & Secret. So reblog, share, tweet and signal boost
- Go to your GSA, your SAGA’s, your LGBT Centers, all the LGBTQ Groups you give your money and time too. Make sure they know about this. Show them the actual definitions of Bisexuality. Make sure they stop making snide jokes about how Bisexuals all have “Privilege” … about how we are all just “in the closet” … how we are binary and transphobic and all the other sly digs and daily erasure we suffer. Make them listen to us and see us and include us.
- If you are in the USA please join the BiNet USA Group on Facebook where announcements are being made as they come in
- If you are in Chicagoland please join on Facebook: Bisexual Queer Alliance Chicago + Chicago Bisexual Queer Meetup on Meetup: Chicago Bisexual / Queer Community
- And watch this and the other Bisexual Blogs … we will Post more information as we get it.
Thank You AllI generally try to keep things on the light side here, but this is absolutely outrageous and everyone should be made aware.
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Post reblogged from Bi radical
It appears that not enough people are aware of the existence of academic bisexual theory. As a Facebook friend of mine reported today:
I went to a queer theory website, looking for bisexual queer theory, and this is what I got when I started clicking on links:
“Not Found
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”
In fact, bisexual theory is a broad and rich academic field, with a large amount of writing in various disciplines. The reality of bisexual erasure makes it much harder for people to know that these sources exist, and all the harder to be aware of just how much there is to know.
For the benefit of everyone who always wondered whether bisexual theory existed, or how to find it - and for those who never considered it all all - I decided to compile a (very partial) list of bisexual theory (and other) sources. Note that many of them can be found online. Google is your friend.
Note that these are only the ones that I cited in my book! There are many, many more (for example, BiUK has a broad reference list, under the “REF LISTS” button). If you’re interested in further exploring this amazing field, don’t hesitate to contact me and ask for directions. Good luck!
Books, zines and reports- Alexander, Jason and Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio. Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges. Routledge, 2011.
- Alexander, Jonathan and Karen Yescavage, eds. Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others. Routledge, 2004.
- Baumgardner, Jennifer. Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
- Bi Academic Intervention, eds. The Bisexual Imaginary. Continuum, 1997.
- Bryant, Wayne M. Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anais to Zee. Routledge, 1997.
- Burleson, William E. Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community. Routledge, 2005.
- Chamberlain, Brent. Bisexual People in the Workplace: Practical advice for employers. Stonewall Workplace Guides.
- Forging a Bi-Trans Alliance. Spec. issue of Anything That Moves 17 (1998). Retrieved Tue 9 Oct 2012. http://web.archive.org/web/20021020035411/anythingthatmoves.com/ish17/index17.html.
- Garber, Marjorie. Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
- Hemmings, Clare. Bisexual Spaces. Routledge, 2002. THIS IS THE BIBLE! READ THIS!
- Hutchins, Loraine and Lani Ka’ahumanu, eds. Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. Alyson Books, 1991.
- Kinsey, et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Indiana University Press, 1948/1998.
- Ochs, Robyn and Sarah Rowley, eds. Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. 1S ed. Boston: Bisexual Resource Center, 2005.
- Ochs, Robyn and Sarah Rowley, eds. Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. 2Nd ed. Boston: Bisexual Resource Center, 2009.
- Pramaggiore, Maria and Donald E. Hall, eds. RePresenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire. NYU Press, 1996.
- Reba-Weise, Elizabeth, ed. Closer to Home: Women and Bisexuality. Seal Press: 1992.
- San Francisco Human Rights Commission LGBT Advisory Committee. (2011). Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations. San Francisco, California.
- Storr, Merl, ed. Bisexuality: A Critical Reader. Routledge, 1999.
- Suresha, Ron Jackson and Pete Chvany. Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way. Routledge, 2005.
- The Open University Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and Faculty of Health and Social Care. (2012). The Bisexuality Report: Bisexual inclusion in LGBT equality and diversity. London, U.K.: Meg Barker, Christina Richards, Rebecca Jones, Helen Bowes-Catton & Tracey Plowman with Jen Yockney and Marcus Morgan.
- Tucker, Naomi, ed. Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries and Visions. Routledge, 1995.
Articles and book chapters
- Ault, Amber. “Ambiguous Identity in an Unambiguous Sex/Gender Structure: The Case of Bisexual Women.” The Sociological Quarterly, 37:3 (1996): 449-463.
- Ault, Amber. “Hegemonic Discourse in an Oppositional Community: Lesbian Feminists and Bisexuality”. Critical Sociology, 20 (1994): 107-122.
- Cixous, Hélène. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs, 1:4 (1976): 875-893.
- Diamond, Lisa. “Female Bisexuality From Adolescence to Adulthood: Results From a 10-Year Longitudinal Study”. Developmental Psychology 44.1 (2008): 5-14.
- Eadie, Joe. “Activating Bisexuality: Towards a Bi/Sexual Politics.” Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics. Joseph Bristow and Anglia R. Wilson, eds. Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1994. 139-165.
- Eisner, Shiri. “Love, Rage and the Occupation: Bisexual Politics in Israel/Palestine.” Journal of Bisexuality 12:1 (2012): 80-137.
- Farrimond, Katherine. “‘Stay Still So We Can See Who You Are’: Anxiety and Bisexual Activity in the Contemporary Femme Fatale Film.” Journal of Bisexuality 12:1 (2012): 138-154.
- Fox, Ron C. “Bisexual Identities”. Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences. 2Nd ed. Garnets, Linda and Douglas Kimmel, eds. Columbia University Press, 2002.
- Hemmings, Clare, “A Feminist Methodology of the Personal: Bisexual Experience and Feminist Post-Structuralist Epistemology.” Feminist Methodology: Gender Theory, Feminist Epistemology, Sex and Gender, Cross-Cultural Feminist Ethics, Politics of Gender, Ethnography of Gender. Channa Subhadra, ed. Cosmo, 2006.
- Hemmings, Clare. “Resituating the Bisexual Body: From Identity to Difference.” Activating Theory: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics. Joseph Bristow and Anglia R. Wilson, eds. Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1994. 118-138.
- Hemmings, Clare. “What’s in a Name? Bisexuality, Transnational Sexuality Studies and Western Colonial Legacies.” The International Journal of Human Rights 11:1-2 (2007): 13-32.
- Herek, Gregory M. “Heterosexuals’ Attitudes toward Bisexual Men and Women in the United States.” The Journal of Sex Research 39:4 (2002), 264-274.
- Jeffreys, Shiela. “Bisexual politics: A superior form of feminism?”. Women’s Studies International Forum 22:3 (1999): 273–285. [Trigger warning: highly biphobic]
- Ku, Chung-Hao. “The Kid Is All the Rage: (Bi) Sexuality, Temporality and Triangular Desire in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead”. Journal of Bisexuality 10:3 (2010), 309-349.
- MacDowall, Lachlan. “Historicising Contemporary Bisexuality.” Journal of Bisexuality, 9:1 (2009), 3-15.
- Obradors-Campos, Miguel. “Deconstructing Biphobia.” Journal of Bisexuality, 11:2-3 (2010): 207-226.
- Ochs, Robyn. “Biphobia: It Goes More Than Two Ways.” Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority. Ed. Beth A. Firestein. Sage, 1996. 217-239.
- Ochs, Robyn. “What’s in a Name? Why Women Embrace or Resist Bisexual Identity.” Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan. Beth A. Firestein (Ed.) Columbia University Press, 2007.
- Prosser, Jay and Merl Storr. “Transsexuality and Bisexuality.” Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science. Lucy Bland and Laura Doan, eds. University Of Chicago Press, 1999. 75-77.
- Rieger, Gerulf, Meredith L. Chivers and J. Michael Bailey. “Sexual Arousal Patterns of Bisexual Men.” Psychological Science 16:8 (2005): 579-584. [Trigger warning: biphobia, denial of bisexuality]
- Rosenthal, A.M., D. Sylva, A. Safron, and J.M. Bailey. “Sexual arousal patterns of bisexual men revisited.” Biological Psychology 88 (2011): 112-115. [Trigger warning: biphobia]
- Rust, Paula C. “Two Many and Not Enough.” Journal of Bisexuality 1:1 (2000): 31-68.
- Steinman, Erich. “Interpreting the Invisibility of Male Bisexuality.” Journal of Bisexuality 1:2-3 (2000): 15-45.
- Sweeney, Syreeta J. Normative Monosexism, Biphobia, and the Experience of Bisexual Women: A Content Analysis of an Online Community. MA thesis. University of Texas, 2011. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. Web. 15 Oct 2012.
- Yoshino, Kenji. “The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure”. Standford Law Review 52.2 (2000): 353-461.
I can’t recommend Kenji Yoshino’s article enough - It was my bible when I was writing my paper on bisexual erasure last year for my Gender, Sexual and Cultural Bias Within The Law course!
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I like to think that bisexuals are the misha collins of the sexualities
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This blog is pretty great. I remember my first run in with biphobia in some youtube comments when I was 15 or so. Someone was defending homosexuality and then suddenly burst, completely unprompted, into a rant about how, "But bisexuals, bisexuals are evil" and then went on to describe a bisexual conspiracy. Now I wish I still had that...
Asked by Anonymous
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Thanks to this blog, I felt confident enough to come out to my friend today. Thank you and never stop being awesome!
Asked by Anonymous
GUYS
WE HALPED
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malicekisses asked goshdarnbisexuals:
you people are SO DEMANDING.AND GREEDY but we’ve covered that extensively I feel -
I really want to follow your blog 'cause it's awesome, but the massive ignorance you (we?) have to respond to just... I can't even... Ugh. But keep up the good work! :3
Asked by theymightbebeatles
WE DO WHAT WE WANTI would like to take this proud moment to remind everyone of our blog’s official mission statement:Let’s give these people the answers they deserve.That is, no answers at all, let’s all just take funny pictures and eat cake.
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Anonymous asked:
BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD!!! Once you are given this award, you are supposed to paste it in the ask of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it’s sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out you deserve it! (You’re doing a good thing, each and every one of you who posts to this blog. Stay happy, stay sexy! xoxoxo)
Anonymous asked:So, in response to all the heterosexism in the fb comments for the Pride Oreo, I went and bought a pack of double stuf oreos. And while I was at it I also bought chips, pie, and watermelon. ‘Cuz I’ma greedy bisexual. ;D
THANKS FOR THE EPILEPSY INDUCING GIF DEVIANT ARTYOUR TALENT KNOWS NO BOUNDSbut I approve of that delicious reaction yesmyownknight asked:I would like to submit that to official Bi Food be those orange/cream swirled pops, because they’re two flavors, and incredibly delicious and complimentary.
HERE WE GO AGAIN -
I feel like such a bad bisexual. I still sometimes think things like “why do I feel this way? why can’t I just pick a side?” and “is there something wrong with me?” aaaand my favorite “why won’t either side accept me?”. And then there’s the “I really want to be in a poly relationship but I don’t want to people accuse me of being selfish/a whore/a stereotype/just looking for attention”. Gah. What do I do?- Anonymous
- There is no such thing as a bad bisexual.
- There is no such thing as a bad bisexual.
- There is no such thing as a bad bisexual.
- You don’t have to pick a side. That’s basically what being bisexual is all about.
- No there is nothing wrong with you. That’s silly. You’re awesome. Stop saying that. Now.
- ‘Either side’ sounds like they’re being a giant bag of dicks that need a little education in biphobia. ‘Fraid I can’t answer that one, if I could I’d be solving homophobic, sexist and racist problems everywhere! All you can do is stay true to yourself, and hopefully educate a couple of dumbasses on the way.
- Hearing about anyone, from any group (race, religion, sexuality, etc), not doing something that they want to do because they’re afraid they’ll fulfill a stereotype makes me hulk out. THAT IS BULLSHIT. DO WHAT YOU WANT, BRO.
- Do what makes you happy.
- If I were you, I would find a Proper Advice Blog, that will probably give you far more coherent advice then I ever could.
- Hug it out.
- No, come on, get in here, let’s hug this bitch out.
- Aw yeah.
