My legitimacy is not dependant on my relationships. I’m bisexual with or without the relationships I’m in. If the LGBTQ community can’t accept that, then that’s an error that the community needs to fix.
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Best 2011 Bisexual Nonfiction:
Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir, by Susie Bright, Seal Press
Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges, edited by Jonathan Alexander & Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, Routledge
The Horizontal Poet, by Jan Steckel, Zeitgeist Press (2011 Winner)
Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature, edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, University of Arizona Press
Surviving Steven: A True Story, by Ven ReyBest 2011 Bisexual Fiction:
Boyfriends With Girlfriends, by Alex Sanchez, Simon & Schuster
The Correspondence Artist, by Barbara Browning, Two Dollar Radio (2011 Winner)
Have You Seen Me, by Katherine Scott Nelson, Chicago Center for Literature and Photography
Triptych, by J.M. Frey, Dragon Moon Press
The Two Krishnas, by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, Magnus Books
Source: bimagazine.org
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[Image: Dark green grunge background. First line text: “Did you know?”. Second line image: 10 people symbols/silhouettes, of which 4.5 are colored dark orange, and 5.5 light orange. Third line text (large): “nearly 45% of bisexual youth have been bullied online”. Fourth line, smaller text: “By contrast, 19% of straight youth and 30% of gay youth experienced online bullying.” Fifth line: “STOP biphobia and monosexism!”]
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Source: Inequities in Educational and Psychological Outcomes Between LGBTQ and Straight Students in Middle and High SchoolThe second chapter in my book: Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution is dedicated to explaining the effects of biphobia and monosexism.
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Just in time for Black History Month, I’d like to take a moment to remember the many black bisexual folks who came before. Famous black folks who identify as bisexual or have a proud history of sexual fluidity include: Alvin Ailey, Josephine Baker, Countee Cullen, Lee Daniels, Grace Jones, Hattie McDaniel, Me’shelle Ndegeochello, Little Richard, Sapphire and Frank Ocean. For more names click here.
Today, I single out for attention noted and esteemed poet, author and thought leader, June Jordan (1936-2002).
[I]f I am not free and if I am not entitled equal to heterosexuals and homosexuals then homosexual men and women have joined with the dominant heterosexual culture in the tyrannical pursuit of E Pluribus Unum and I a bisexual woman committed to cultural pluralism and, therefore to sexual pluralism, can only say, you better watch your back!” —June Jordan On Bisexuality and Cultural Pluralism, in Affirmative Acts
Like June Jordan, I am of West-Indian/African descent and bisexual! According to this great article:
Jordan derived her bisexual and biracial perspectives from having transgressed two more societal boundaries — an interracial marriage with a white man, and having given birth to a biracial child, both scoffed at during her time by blacks and whites in this country. But it is Jordan’s “boundary crossings” that gave her the intellectual breath on an issue, and by extension she gave us a new way to see ourselves and the world.
And in this amazing piece by the Rev. Irene Munroe, she explains why we all have to work hard to remember Jordan’s legacy, because like too many others her legacy can fall within the cracks of identity politics. Munroe states:
Within lesbian circles, the place of bisexual women within the queer women’s community was often marginal, if not non-existent, and their commitment to feminism was always suspect. Many lesbians believed that any women who had the ability to sexually love another women had a political obligation to identify as lesbian. Others believed that the compulsory nature of heterosexuality in our culture precluded all possibilities of women freely choosing a heterosexual relationship.
That’s a sentiment I’ve heard but rejected my whole life, just because I can love a woman (or a man) doesn’t means I have to. My body is mine and belongs to me; the freedom of my bisexuality is the ability to define love within my own heart, instead of someone else’s. Munroe goes on to speak about destiny in a way I found encouraging and uplifting:
Bisexuals are individuals who transgress the artificial socially constructed boundary of gender identity as well as the biologically constructed boundary of sex. Called “gatekeepers” by the Dagara of West Africa and “Two Spirit” by many Native Americans, bisexuals in these cultures were seen as having a special spiritual inheritance and earthly destiny.
Never have I heard so well put the calling I hear in my heart! Many thanks to Heron Greensmith for turning me onto June Jordan. I highly recommend you check out Heron’s excellent legal article, “Drawing Bisexuality Back Into The Picture: How Bisexuality Fits Into LGBT Legal Strategy Ten Years After Bisexual Erasure”
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When novelist Michael Peterson made a 911 call in 2001, about his wife Kathleen — who was then laying in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs — he had no idea that it would launch one of the most fascinating, shocking, and biphobic trials of our time. Peterson was allegedly filled with grief over the accident, and family and friends testified his marriage was ideal, but investigators immediately believed Kathleen’s death was no accident and arrested Peterson for her murder.
During the North Carolina trial there were a series of revelations that stunned the jury, none more damaging than the fact that Peterson was bisexual and had sex with other men. The case became front page news across the country with everyone weighing in on Peterson’s guilt or innocence.
The Sundance doc-series, The Staircase, which begins tonight at 10 p.m., follows the entire case from the day of Kathleen’s death to the final verdict in court. Academy Award-winning director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (who did Murder on a Sunday Morning) has unprecedented access to Peterson, his legal team, forensic experts, and others. This 8-episode series includes the original 6 episodes that aired on Sundance in 2004, and two gripping new follow up episodes that update the case and the complexity around the guilt or innocence of Michael Peterson.
The series might just be Lestrade’s pièce de résistance and it’s a must-see for LGBT viewers interested in crime, social justice, and sexual liberty.
Click the link above to watch the trailer.
Congrats to How to Survive a Plague, nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards! How to Survive a Plague is an unflinching and powerfully moving look at how the activists behind groups like ACT UP forced the medical establishment into action following its tragically stunted response to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
by PETER O’DOWD
Rep.-elect Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., appears at a news conference with newly elected Democratic House members in Washington on Nov. 13.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
Arizona’s new 9th Congressional District is sending a different type of representative to Washington this week: She’s young — 36. She grew up homeless for a time. And she’ll be the first openly bisexual member of Congress.
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema marvels at the number of women, minorities and members of the LGBT community who will join her in the freshman class, which will be sworn in Thursday.
“I’m just really proud of the Democratic caucus,” she told voters in her district at a coffee meeting on a recent rainy winter morning. “I look around in our meetings, and I think we really look like America.”
For a while it was unclear whether Sinema — a social worker who rose quickly through the state Legislature — would make it to Congress. It took nearly a week after Election Day for Sinema to learn she had beaten her Tea Party opponent by 10,000 votes.
“How often can you say a kid who was homeless is going to Congress?” she says.
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“Bigotry and discrimination towards people who area attracted to both sexes* is nothing new, not even inside the LGBT movement.”
*Interesting article, but I don’t like how they phrased this. There are more than two sexes, and bisexuals can be attracted to more than two.
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Source: biconfessions
The Coalition for Queer People of Color has a brand new website!
Check it out here: http://theqpoccoalition.org/
You can find a list of meeting times, upcoming events, and important announcements under What’s the Tea?. The website’s also got a listing of local, national, and online Resources, info on the rXs intragroup dialogue program, or just information About the Coalition in general.
Want to know more about The Coalition?
The Coalition is a diverse group of University of Michigan students, faculty, staff, and Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti community members who are committed to building community around, and highlighting the lived experiences of, queer, trans*, and similarly self-identified people of color. The Coalition is open to anyone with an interest in promoting social and racial justice (allies included!).
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World AIDS day is December 1st.
Read more about new information on HIV/AIDS among young people in the U.S.
You can also help raise awareness by sharing these infographics on Facebook.
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There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other’s names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. — Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
LGBTQ* Tumblrs You Should Know
“Words are beautiful. You are beautiful.”
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[Image: Dark green grunge background. First line text: “Did you know?”. Second line image: 10 people symbols/silhouettes, of which 4.5 are colored dark orange, and 5.5 light orange. Third line text (large): “nearly 45% of bisexual youth have been bullied online”. Fourth line, smaller text: “By contrast, 19% of straight youth and 30% of gay youth experienced online bullying.” Fifth line: “STOP biphobia and monosexism!”]
The third in a series of infographics. First one. Second one.Source: Inequities in Educational and Psychological Outcomes Between LGBTQ and Straight Students in Middle and High School
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