For the week of the bi flags 19th birthday (because lets be real, everyone loves a birthday week) Lois Shearing explores what the bi flags means to the community it represents.
Tag: Bisexuality
Queer Media; it’s time to do better bi us
In light of recent biphobic articles published by queer media outlets, Lois Shearing addresses some of the myths perpetuated both outside of and within the LGBTQ+ community.
What it’s like to be out but not out-out as a bisexual
Lois Shearing explores what it means to be out, but not out-out as a bisexual and why it’s important to respect our identity, even if we sometimes let ourselves ‘pass’.
How to celebrate Bi Visibility Day if you aren’t bi
For Bisexual Visibility Day, Lois Shearing explores that ways that non-bisexual people can celebrate and be better allies to the bi+ community. Today is Bisexual Visibility Day, a day dedicated to highlighting the issues faced […]
Beyond invisibility: 5 issues facing the bisexual community
Despite all the erasure of bisexuality that may have happened this Pride season, Lois Shearing asks whether it is time to stop looking past visibility as the main issue facing the bisexual community, to focus on the systematic violence and oppression facing bisexuals
The bisexual erasure / over-sexualisation feedback loop
Lois Shearing explores the ways in which bisexual erasure and over sexualised on-screen representations creates an environment in which being bisexual is seen as a behaviour rather than an identity.
Bisexuality: a modern crisis of erasure, under-resourcing and invisibility
Guest writer Lois Shearing spells out clearly the challenges faced by the increasing number of bi people in the UK today.
Purple Prose: Review
Steph Farnsworth reviews Purple Prose, an anthology of writing by bisexual people based in the UK
Can someone tell the British LGBT awards that bi women are not part time lesbians
Yesterday the British LGBT awards claimed to be bi inclusive by promoting its largely unknown Lesbian and Bi women group. Karen Pollock explores the reasons why they have fallen short of the mark.
Straight privilege? Check yourself, not bisexual people
Stephanie Farnsworth examines the idea that bisexual people experience “straight privilege”
