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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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I often think that people who identify as liberals have a kind of conceptual black hole in their imagination. This black hole, one that both denies criticism but enables confidence, avoids recognising that spaces are constructed to benefit some and exacerbate a lack of confidence of others. In resisting the attempts to mould people in…
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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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Source: Black Lodge Press If you are a trans person in the UK right now, you are seen as less-than-human. Countering any ideal of heteronormative sex, gender and sexuality is one of many ways trans people are castigated from the ‘normal’, or made less-than-human. One location of this othering, in the construction of the less-than-human,…
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How do we imagine new worlds when we are so often told they are impossible or unattainable? In what ways do we persist, resist, to reimagine new ways of being? How are our thoughts framed in and bound by our social structures, and where is agency and resistance made? Here are a collection of quotes…
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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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A seemingly small thing, the Performance Review can feel like a menial, bureaucratic effort. Most people experience a performance review – from librarian to doctor – if you are fortunate to stay in a job for long enough. You might be promised a pay review, you might be tasked with goals to achieve, you might…
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