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Is it about bisexuals? no? then I've lost interest. she/her. (side blog)

[the-moon-is-bi]

Bisexual Magazines!!

Hello bisexuals, I have made a carrd archiving a few bisexual magazine series published in the 1990s. If you are interested in bisexual history and want to know more about it then I suggest you check it out 🩷💜💙 (It looks better on PC/desktop site view)

[bihetdyke]

actually here’s some nifty links discussing butch/femme history and how it’s not lesbian exclusive and never has been

this one includes quotes about butch mlm, who have been using the term butch since at least the 1960s

this one discusses bi women using femme, even when they’re with men

this discusses the history of femme and butch in wlw spaces

this discusses how claiming butch/femme is lesbian exclusive is antiblack and racist

this one talks about femme as a term for all lgbt people (includes the d slur and f slur)

some more discussion of bi femmes

here’s a long article about femme bisexuality

some more quotes about bi femmes and bi butches, including a quote from leslie feinberg about butch bis

this talks about femme as a community wide term

this one is about butch bisexuality (d slur)

this is about femme bis and butch bis

read about polari

this is about butch/fem(me) history

here’s this about ball room culture, and this, and this

aaand here’s butch is a noun

[theroguefeminist]

Good sources, good stuff, please check it out!

[bisexual-coala]

Most of these links which lead to the original posts are broken so here are the links to reblogs/archives of these posts I’ve found:

this one includes quotes about butch mlm, who have been using the term butch since at least the 1960s

this one discusses bi women using femme. even when they’re with men

this discusses the history of femme and butch in wlw spaces

this discusses how claiming butch/femme is lesbian exclusive is antiblack and racist

this one talks about femme as a term for all lgbt people (includes the d slur and f slur)

some more discussion of bi femmes

here’s a long article about femme bisexuality (the original link works but I have archived it just in case)

some more quotes about bi femmes and bi butches. including a quote from leslie feinberg about butch bis (again, og link works but I archived it. If you are curious about the post which op is referring to in the link then here)

this talks about femme as a community wide term (og link works. It’s from Bay Area Reporter Volume 28, Number 13)

this one is about butch bisexuality (d slur)

this is about femme bis and butch bis (og link works. It’s from Boston Bisexual Women’s Network 1983 page 13)

read about polari

(both the latter links in reference to ball room culture work)

aaand here’s butch is a noun

[hneycmb]

The constant exclusion and sidelining of bi women in sapphic spaces really does make it feel like yall see us as silly straight women just playing pretend that you're forced to tolerate and it makes me really fucking mad.

[hneycmb]

Your support and inclusion of bi women should not feel like a begrudging afterthought, and if it does you need a serious re-evaluation of your priorities. Bi women are MEMBERS of sapphic spaces, not guests that you have so graciously allowed to stay. Fucking treat us like it.

[the-moon-is-bi]

Journal of Bisexuality

Hello bisexuals! I have compiled all of the volumes and articles of Journal of Bisexuality and you can access it for free! Don't worry about paywalls anymore. I will keep updating the drive.

[the-moon-is-bi]

I have updated the drive with new articles and/or researches. These are the new ones ↓

[bisisterhood]

Does anybody know any feminist writings that talk about connections between bisexuality and feminism ? I mean, aside from Bi Notes. Or anything about multisexual sexuality and feminist identity. Or any texts really that can be helpful for making those connections ? 

[bi-dykes]

This is one of my favourite articles of all time! It discusses the connection of feminism and bisexuality as per a lot of bi women being a driving force in bi activism

[the-moon-is-bi]

I do know of a few though I haven't read them all

Closer to home: bisexuality & feminism

The Equalitarian Feminist A Journal For The Bi Sexual Liberated Woman

Some other texts about bisexual women:

Plural desires: writing bisexual women's realities

Women and bisexuality

Bi Lives Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories

Bisexuality And The Challenge To Lesbian Politics By Paula C. Rust

Bisexual Women Friendship And Social Organization

Women And Bisexuality A Global Perspective

And I'm gonna plug in my archive of articles from Journal of Bisexuality which might be helpful.

[makingqueerhistory]

Hi, could you recommend any books with bisexual butches and bisexual femmes? Preferably non-fiction but I'm fine with fiction too!

The only book that comes to mind that might touch on this is:

The Women's House of Detention

(Affiliate link)

But if my audience might have other recommendations!

[the-moon-is-bi]

Few books that mention bisexual butches and femmes:

Femme: Feminists, Lesbians and Bad Girls

Femmes Unite Zine #2

Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender

The Whole Lesbian Sex book by Felice Newman

Dagger: on Butch Women

Boots of Leather and Slippers of Gold

Queering Desire by El Reird Buckley

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, The Butch Manual and Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (fiction) mention butches and femmes that aren't lesbians or even women.

Also this NYT article on butch existence explicitly mentions butch bisexuals and butch boys

[bisexual-coala]

I find it really interesting how we are dealing with problems that have existed since the 70s and 80s.

Im currently reading this book about bisexual women's experience with their bisexuality and this passage is about D's mother first coming out as a lesbian but realizing later that she's bi. Notice how she said that all of her mom's lesbian friends stopped hanging out with her once she came out as bi? This is sowm that's still happens today. You mistakenly believe you're a lesbian then later come out as bi? Congrat! You'll get massive hate online and social isolation.

Biphobia has remained the same. This is very similar to what happened with me when I realised I was bisexual and not lesbian like I previous believed. I lost like 90% of my lesbian friends. Which baffles me and angers me even today. I got so much internalized biphobia. It took me a while to overcome it. The bisexual community helped alot with me finding pride in my bisexual identity.

I remember when this happened with that Brazilian Instagram influencer too. She was told she was queerbaiting, that she was never queer to begin with and that she "betrayed" the queer community. The LGBTQ "community" is a joke and treats bisexuals so bad, it's frustrating. At least we bisexuals have each other <3

Which book is this by the way? I'd like to check it out too

[the-moon-is-bi]

This also reminds me of how bisexuals are forced to enter a double closet so they can have a chance at acceptance:

“Though gay people believe that identifying as a bi person is easy in India, bi people themselves do not share the sentiment. Bi people attending gay groups do not talk about their bi identity, for fear of losing what little support they get in these spaces.”

- Getting Bi: voices of bisexuals all around the world

[the-moon-is-bi]

Bisexuals of color <3

First picture credit: Luis Camacho / EL UNIVERSAL

4th one

[femmebis]

Data from a recent report, which shows which types of relationships bisexual people are in. So you all can stop with your biphobic ‘bisexuals are always in M/F relationships’ nonsense.

(Note: binary trans people are included in the first graphic. The last two graphics are just created to be exclusively about them.)

Graphics by @isthisbicuIture on Twitter

Study: https://www.ilga-europe.org/report/intersections-the-lgbti-ii-survey-bisexuals-analysis/

Disaggregated data, which can look deeply into the lived experiences of marginalised people, is a key demand of LGBTI and other human rights

[readingbibooks]

“My ex used to justify what he did to me by citing the emotional strain it caused him to be dating a bi girl, because I was obviously going to cheat on him and he had to hurt me to stop me doing that.”

- Rosalind Smith, The Bi-ble: New Testimonials, Further original narratives and essays about bisexuality

[the-moon-is-bi]

A few pictures from Bisexual Pride Celebration - 2018

[the-moon-is-bi]

Unfortunately, now that bisexual people were erased from stonewall, I have been seeing a great influx of monosexual people celebrating it. Yet again (for my sadness) I am proven right by knowing monosexual people have almost no solidarity with bi people.

Same here. I have even seen gay people say that it's a "privilege" to be erased and/or that bisexuals getting erased is the work of gay men/lesbians and that they are setting things "right" as bisexuals apparently never fought in the stonewall with them. It's sad really. We must at least have solidarity now more than ever but alas

[the-moon-is-bi]

The National Park Service has quietly edited the official Stonewall National Monument website, removing most mentions of bisexual people from its pages.

The monument’s description now refers only to “gay and lesbian” people, leaving bisexual and transgender identities out of the picture almost entirely.

[the-moon-is-bi]

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Wonder Woman is bisexual 🩷💜💙

[ruephilia]

i love bisexuals who don’t conform to society’s view of gender!!! i love nonbinary and trans bisexuals and bisexuals on HRT or who’ve had top/bottom surgery! he/she bisexuals, she/they and he/they bisexuals, bisexuals who use all pronouns or neopronouns! butch/femme bisexuals and gender nonconforming ones!!! i love all of you!!!