bisexuality
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A New Politics of (Bi)sexuality?: Thinking with June Jordan, Deleuze & Guattari, and ‘Bisexuality is Freedom’:
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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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note: this is an updated version of an earlier piece, Against Crisis, made better. Not all bisexual people are radicals. But ‘bisexual’ can be a radical identity. Bisexuals operate outside our understandings of sexuality – we are not one or the other, we are not this or that, we are everything and nothing, one and…
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For Bristol Pride 2024, a bunch of cool queer people came together to write and distribute a free zine to the crowds. If you’d like to take a read, you can read below and download for free. An audio version of the zine will be available soon. All we ask is if you use any…
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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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“I’m on the hunt, I’m after you / Mouth is alive, with juices like wine / And I’m hungry like the wolf” Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf (1981) I’ve had some initial thoughts on the concept of being a researcher which I’d like to explore here: please forgive any ramblings. The title or label or identity of…
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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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