Tumblr seems unable to remove these goggles.
She meant to say: “No matter which way you’re looking, bisexuality is always erased.”
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Source: youtu.be
Popular representation of “LGBT,” to scale.
Basically.
Accurate.
Except that it’s false. Not meaning to go into an oppression olympic here, but there is far more trans visibility in my world than bi visibility. Even here on tumblr, where most of the people I follow are bi, I get way more trans* stuff than bi* stuff, and of course the bi* stuff is much less widely circulated. The same goes for every other part of my world, including the LGBT movement, conversations with friends, facebook discussion, articles, books, blogs, conferences and whatever else you can think of.
So really, images like this promote the false notion that bisexuality is actually acknowledged or talked about in the GGGG community when it’s really not at all.
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Source: luceateis
Love, Rage and the Occupation: Bisexual Politics in Israel/Palestine
I just got a new article published on Journal of Bisexuality, how exciting ^_^
Click to download: Love, Rage and the Occupation: Bisexual Politics in Israel/Palestine
Abstract
This text narrates the writer’s story as a bisexual activist and, through it, also the story of the bisexual movement in Israel so far. In addition, the text endeavors to highlight the strands of militarism, violence and racism in Israeli culture, with a focus on the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. This is meant to achieve two things: first, to deconstruct the false separation between the two fields of ‘LGBT rights’ and antiwar activism; and second, to promote the principles of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, encouraging solidarity with the Palestinian people and nonviolent struggle against the Israeli occupation.
Check out the tags for some of the topics covered :)
* If you have any problems with downloading the file, don’t hesitate to email me and ask for a copy: bisexual.revolution(at)gmail.com
I dressed for Rio: misterstibbons: I really do get REALLY ANNOYED when people say “LGBT”...
I really do get REALLY ANNOYED when people say “LGBT” and then go on to say, for example, “everyone should be respected regardless of sexual orientation.”
And you know,
that’s great, and I agree,
although that’s a weird way to phrase it, but
still a nice notion,
but
The T has literally nothing to do with sexual orientation.
There are lots of heterosexual trans people.
Probably the majority of trans people are heterosexual.
Because the majority of people full stop are heterosexual.
So it’s just
If you’re only going to talk about LGB-related things,
say LGB.
Because saying the whole initialism and then failing to acknowledge the T at all really isn’t helping in the slightest, and indeed it could be argued that saying T but then not saying anything about it is, in fact, actively detrimental,
because then people get the idea that language that is not T-inclusive actually is.
Respectfully, there’s no such thing as LGB. When people talk about “LGBT”, then dismiss the T and talk about sexual orientation, they’re also only talking about homosexuality (not even lesbianiam, either, not to mention asexuality). Grouping LGB together like that erases bisexual erasure and casts the B’s as participants in the oppression of the T’s.
It’s time for everyone to acknowledge that the “LGBT” movement isn’t only excluding the T’s, only excluding the A’s, or only excluding the B’s - it’s the fucking GGGG movement, and we’d better start refering to it like that, or we’re risking participating in the exclusion and erasure of other groups besides our own.
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Look, it’s all parts of the community: G, G, G and G! :D
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Source: loveincolor.org
“I’ve found that because the gay community treats us poorly that enables the straight community to do the same, because their gay friends have de facto sanctioned it.” ~Micah Z. Kellner, out bisexual member of the New York State Assembly July 2009
Uh, WTF? Got the power balance a bit wrong, much?
I mean SRSLY, you can’t claim that gays and lesbians have more social power than heterosexuals. That’s both unconvincing and kind of insulting. If anything, gays and lesbians are participating in the monosexism sanctioned by the heterosexual culture, not the other way around.
SRSLY.
I believe you have misinterpreted his comments. What he is saying is that when gay/lesbian people do not stand up for all their compatriots in the greater queer community and most especially when they work with the dominant culture to enforce a heteronormative paradigm that they are essentially collaborators with worst instincts of the straight culture in the oppression of the LGBTQ+ community.
Another example of this taken from relatively recent events in the USA would be when a major so called “gay rights” organization agreed to jettison trans* & gender variant people in return for an (ultimately illusory) “agreement” that a small cissexists/assimilationists subset of gay men and lesbian women would be given more “rights” and greater access power, money, et. al.
I am definitely not denying the rampant biphobia and transphobia in the GGGG movement. However, the way Kellner put it, you’d think that heterosexuals are accomplices in gay and lesbian monosexism, rather than the other way around.
“I’ve found that because the gay community treats us poorly that enables the straight community to do the same, because their gay friends have de facto sanctioned it.” ~Micah Z. Kellner, out bisexual member of the New York State Assembly July 2009
Uh, WTF? Got the power balance a bit wrong, much?
I mean SRSLY, you can’t claim that gays and lesbians have more social power than heterosexuals. That’s both unconvincing and kind of insulting. If anything, gays and lesbians are participating in the monosexism sanctioned by the heterosexual culture, not the other way around.
SRSLY.
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Source: facebook.com
STFU Monosexuals: bisexual-community: In Defense of “Party Bisexuals” bialogue-group:...
In Defense of “Party Bisexuals”
Something that has been bothering me for quite awhile is this really negative attitude toward so-called “party bisexuals.” You know, the girl who calls herself bisexual but all she does is get drunk…
True. And I think it’s also really important to remember the considerable amounts of slut shaming coming into play here. The idea behind this type of biphobia is that sexuality is “less authentic” than emotion, that sexually independent women or girls are in fact being “immoral” and that their behaviour is “invalid”. Society seems to treat these women and girls as dangerous and harmful both to themselves and to others, as a sexual emergency which must be stopped. They’re also perceived as damaging to the “pure” (read: desexualized) image of bisexual women, of all queer women or of women in general - which, in turn, paints a straight path into victim blaming and all the “they’re guilty of producing sexual harassment” type of bullshit.
Labels Project, Vol. One
The Labels Project is a collaborative project between myself and Hedda Hammer, a bay area artist and writer, and came after we attended our first pride events in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Being newly out we noticed quite a few groups and sub groups that we felt were not properly represented in the media, even our own media. We felt that there was so much about the LGBTQ community that we did not know, and I’m sure others don’t know about.
Though the project has gone through some changes since it’s initial conception, we hope it hope it will continue to grow and evolve as does our community.
Awesomeness
I love the way that bisexuals are just not cool/radical/subversive/awesome enough to be in those things.
While we’re at it - I’m for a politics of refusing to be cool, or a politics of the ugly.
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