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[Image: Dark blue grunge background. First line text: “Did you know?”. Second line image: 10 people symbols/silhouettes, of which 4 are colored dark pink, and 6 light pink. Third line text (large): “over 40% of bisexual people have considered suicide”. Fourth line, smaller text: “By contrast, 8.5% of straight people and 27% of gay people considered suicide.” Fifth line: “STOP biphobia and monosexism!”]
The second in a series of infographics. For the first one, click here. For more information, see: http://radicalbi.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/snippet-4-the-bisexual-invisibility-report/
The second chapter in my book is dedicated to explaining the effects of biphobia and monosexism.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/6af691fa96278563d6c4c7f2d863910a/tumblr_mlmelzzrKr1r13rduo1_500.jpg)
[Image: Dark blue grunge background. First line text: “Did you know?”. Second line image: 10 people symbols/silhouettes, of which 4 are colored dark pink, and 6 light pink. Third line text (large): “over 40% of bisexual people have considered suicide”. Fourth line, smaller text: “By contrast, 8.5% of straight people and 27% of gay people considered suicide.” Fifth line: “STOP biphobia and monosexism!”]
The second in a series of infographics. For the first one, click here.
For more information, see: http://radicalbi.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/snippet-4-the-bisexual-invisibility-report/The second chapter in my book is dedicated to explaining the effects of biphobia and monosexism.
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[Image: Dark purple grunge background. First line text: “Did you know?”. Second line image: 10 woman symbols/silhouettes, of which 5 are colored dark pink, and 5 light pink. Third line text (large): “nearly HALF of all bisexual women are survivors of rape”. Fourth line, smaller text: “By contrast, 13% of lesbians and 17% of straight women are rape survivors.” Fifth line: “STOP sexual violence against bi women!”]
The first in a series of infographics that I have in plan. For more information: http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/bisexual-women-almost-twice-as-likely-to-be-abused For a (partial) explanation for why this is happening: http://radicalbi.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/hot-sexy-bi-babes-media-depictions-of-bisexual-women/ Or buy my book - Chapter 4 (Bisexuality, Feminism and Women) is pretty much all about this.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/93d98064cc788a6bf014037816e1e560/tumblr_ml7636vtY81r13rduo1_500.jpg)
[Image: Dark purple grunge background. First line text: “Did you know?”. Second line image: 10 woman symbols/silhouettes, of which 5 are colored dark pink, and 5 light pink. Third line text (large): “nearly HALF of all bisexual women are survivors of rape”. Fourth line, smaller text: “By contrast, 13% of lesbians and 17% of straight women are rape survivors.” Fifth line: “STOP sexual violence against bi women!”]
The first in a series of infographics that I have in plan.
For more information: http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/bisexual-women-almost-twice-as-likely-to-be-abused
For a (partial) explanation for why this is happening: http://radicalbi.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/hot-sexy-bi-babes-media-depictions-of-bisexual-women/
Or buy my book - Chapter 4 (Bisexuality, Feminism and Women) is pretty much all about this.
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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
The second chapter in my book: Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution is dedicated to explaining the effects of biphobia and monosexism.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/4670147a7ff2fed7cd7d0c75ccb737a1/tumblr_mm6p8aTeu61r13rduo1_500.jpg)
[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 SchoolThe second chapter in my book: Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution is dedicated to explaining the effects of biphobia and monosexism.
(Source: cuteosphere)
Relationship science has a long way to go in trying to understand close relationships within the LGBT community, such as whether any of the processes that contribute to well-being in our relationships are different from others’, and if so, what different needs there might be. This is something that I’m trying to address with my research.
This study has been reviewed and approved by the University of Rochester’s Institutional Review Board.
Here’s a link that’s easier to use: https://www.surveymk.com/s/6M66QNT?c=tmblr
Thanks so much!
David
Evan Rachel Wood Is Doing It For All The Bisexual Ladies Out There
Yes, I Really Am Bisexual. Deal With It.
No matter how open-minded I believed my companion to be, the coming-out conversation was always excruciating. I was a sweaty, self-conscious mess, having no idea what reaction I would get. Would I feel as if I was seen and heard and accepted and embraced — the whole object of the painful, naked-making horror show that is dating? Or would I get metaphorically punched in the gut, shamed for merely being who I am? Would she shrug? Would he think it was hot?
“So you’re, like, one of those four-year lesbians,” one guy said in the middle of a make-out session — no matter that all my relationships, gay and straight, have taken place after college.
“I think you’re just too timid to face your deepest personal truth,” one woman told me as she reached for my shirt buttons.
A man I was on the verge of loving said he was “totally cool with it” — so long as I didn’t mention anything to his parents.
WILSON DIEHL
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This is so amazing and so necessary.
It is hard for bi people to come out. One cannot casually reference a current or past girlfriend or boyfriend, or current interest, and expect people to reach the correct conclusion. I find I must say bisexual if people are to actually understand my sexual orientation (and Queer if they are to understand my political positioning within the LGBT community). And even then there are no guarantees; it can still be heard as lesbian in some weird Bermuda Triangle of Bi Invisibility.
I have long cultivated the practice of using gender neutral language to talk about my partner. I think of it as a way of being subtly out as a bi person as well as articulating a kind of genderqueer politics; it comes from my determination that gender should not bound my relationships. And because I am in an opposite-gender (there’s that troubling binary again) relationship, omitting pronouns is an important way for me to resist heterosexual privilege. Assumptions follow from gender revelations, and only once has someone followed a pronoun revelation by asking whether my partner is cis or trans. Among people who pick up on my gender neutral language, some wrongly assume I am a lesbian trying to cover a same-sex relationship. Again I find am in need of the bi label to convey the truth of who I am.
It’s not that gender doesn’t matter – it matters immensely – but for bi people, it does not limit. I mean to resist others placing limitations on what my relationship can or must be based on gender. I like to think that is the real meaning of Galatians 3:28 (“there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female…”) – not that we become oblivious to gender, abandon our identities, or ignore and forget relationships of oppression, but that being one in Christ would mean we act to end injustice, and free ourselves from the limitations of the binary. To do this work, we must take the risks of clearly claiming who we are, in word as well as deed.
I have long cultivated the practice of using gender neutral language to talk about my partner. I think of it as a way of being subtly out as a bi person as well as articulating a kind of genderqueer politics; it comes from my determination that gender should not bound my relationships. And because I am in an opposite-gender (there’s that troubling binary again) relationship, omitting pronouns is an important way for me to resist heterosexual privilege. Assumptions follow from gender revelations, and only once has someone followed a pronoun revelation by asking whether my partner is cis or trans. Among people who pick up on my gender neutral language, some wrongly assume I am a lesbian trying to cover a same-sex relationship. Again I find am in need of the bi label to convey the truth of who I am.
It’s not that gender doesn’t matter – it matters immensely – but for bi people, it does not limit. I mean to resist others placing limitations on what my relationship can or must be based on gender. I like to think that is the real meaning of Galatians 3:28 (“there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female…”) – not that we become oblivious to gender, abandon our identities, or ignore and forget relationships of oppression, but that being one in Christ would mean we act to end injustice, and free ourselves from the limitations of the binary. To do this work, we must take the risks of clearly claiming who we are, in word as well as deed.
