bisexualities
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I encourage you to listen to the album as you read for a more immersive experience “change is immanent—arising from within situations, from events, from within the movements, actions and desires of bodies” (Lim, 2008: 63) “My body’s liquid, I’m way more wicked than you thought / So sick and twisted, so hedonistic, oh my…
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A New Politics of (Bi)sexuality?: Thinking with June Jordan, Deleuze & Guattari, and ‘Bisexuality is Freedom’:
1990s-queer-politics, A New Politics of Sexuality, affect theory, anti-identity, bisexual identity, bisexual-politics, bisexuality, Bisexuality is Freedom, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, history, June Jordan, liberation, Mel Reeves, molecular politics, Palestine, philosophy, politics, queer, radical
My first introduction to June Jordan was through a livestream with Angela Davis. Davis reflected on Jordan’s beauty and skill as a teacher, a poet, a writer, and an advocate for prison abolition, Black culture, and (bi)sexual freedom. They were friends sharing similar activist spaces as Black women in the US through the mid-20th century.…
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In a recent news article[1], I Kissed a Girl’s Cara, Lailah and Meg explained the difficulty of being bisexual in and around other queer people. The reality show’s formula has cis women and non-binary queer people partner with each other by dating, and expressing their coupledom through kissing, with the aim of being the final couple…
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Note: while I don’t want to delete or edit this article, it has since been updated to reflect a more nuanced, rounded, perspective. I don’t wholly agree with everything I wrote in this, but it’s worth keeping nonetheless. Not all bisexuals are radicals. But bisexuality can be a radical identity. Bisexuals operate outside our understandings of sexuality…
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Rainbow capitalism will not save queer people – this sentence has been well-established over the years. But a recent discourse has emerged that attempts to clutch on to so-called representation in the marketplace in the face of right-wing fanatics. As we meander through one of the darkest Pride Months in recent times, through the constant…
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