sev's Labels and Sexuality

Bisexuality

My original web-based essays

Bisexuality as a label (~100 words)

What does it mean to be "bisexual?"

Bisexuality and gender (~50 words)

Being bisexual doesn't necessarily mean that I'm not aware of the genders of my partners. Not all bisexuals are gender-indifferent.

Bisexuality and trendiness (~50 words)

You mean we made the cover of Time *again*?

Come out, come out, wherever you are...

Writing in the Rain: What underlies coming-out etiquette (~2,000 words)

An examination of the various factors that go into deciding how to come out to whom, and how to react when someone does.

Bi-visibility, politics, union, and coalition (~800 words)

Where is the line between the personal and the political? Why have different spaces for different groups of people? What does the golden rule have to do with all this?

Het privilege (~800 words)

What is it, and how does it effect us?

Heterosexual privilege and bisexual visibility (~900 words)

The trade-offs between heterosexual privilege & queer visibility

Biphobia (~200 words)

Those people who feel that bisexuals are "contaminated" are a minority in the queer world. We can be aware of them without letting their existance hamper ours.

Finding love and healing from hurt (~500 words)

Who was it who said that bisexuality doubles your chance of rejection? It can be tough to bounce back.

Wider horizons

Writing in the Rain: Why Bisupremecists Suck (~160 words)

Periodically I run into self-congratulating bisexuals who insist that bisexuality is k00l because it means attraction to "people, not genitals". I wonder if these people know how insulting they sound.

The flavour of soc.bi (~90 words)

Proven facts and personal commentary -- a mix of styles

The fringe (~130 words)

Pushing the boundaries of "acceptable."

Sexism (~1200 words)

As much change as we've made in the recent past, it's still there.

Being bi and poly (~370 words)

Some people make the mistake of conflating bi and poly. That's frustrating for all of us, including those of us who *are* bi and poly..

Bi Publications

We're here, we're queer, and we're publishing!

Love and lust

Writing in the Rain: Gender Awareness (~350 words)

What's it like to be a gender-indifferent bisexual? Sometimes I think I know. Sometimes I don't. But there are some bisexuals who, even though we feel that we can have relationships with either gender, and don't require both, still are aware of and revel in the genders of our partners.

Girls finding girls (~170 words)

Since Good Girls get socialized to sit around and wait for a Knight in Shining Armor to come by on his White Horse and Take Her Away, even once we've admitted the fact that it may be the *woman* of our dreams on that horse, we've still got a problem.

How to pick up a bisexual (~390 words)

It's really not much different than picking up anybody else.

Role Models (~425 words)

My love letter to soc.bi, circa January 1997

Bisexuality as a label

With regards to my own identification as bisexual, I have a lot of thoughts and questions, but few definitive answers. After reading soc.bi for several years, I've become more convinced that we each have to determine the nuances of our orientation for ourselves. Having chosen bisexual as the best existing description for my orientation, my next task is to fine-tune the various possible interpretations of my orientation. Some of this fine-tuning has occured in a no-longer-very-recent spate of posts to soc.bi.

Bisexuality and gender

I'm not gender-indifferent; just like with any other physical attribute, I appreciate different things about different genders. In addition, gender is a slippery term that doesn't always refer to the same set of characteristics in each person. To me, someone's gender is just one more interesting aspect of his or her character.

Bisexuality and Trendiness

Yes, bisexuality is trendy again. As Marjorie Garber notes in Vice Versa, bisexuality has been going in and out of fashion for at least a hundred years. Think of the Bloomsbury group. Think of the twenties. Think of the seventies. The trendiness or lack thereof of my orientation doesn't change the validity of it.

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