Pictures Titled “just A Girl And Her Dogs” But They’re All Pictures Of Men In A Submissive Stance

“Characters rarely identified themselves as bisexual out loud - instead they behaved their bisexuality, usually through an illicit queer hookup (followed by a breakdown because they’re so “confused”). This taught me that bisexuality was something you do, rather than something you are. And since I hadn’t “done it” yet, I figured I was straight.”

- Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“(Bisexual) stereotypes result from the ambiguous position of bisexuals, poised as we are between what currently appear as two mutually exclusive sexual cultures, one with the power to exercise violence repression against the other.”

- Lisa Orlando, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

“I see bisexuals as the wanderers, because we can traverse the ground of the female world and also of the male world. Being able to do that allows us to glean from both of those gendered experiences… We traverse wide territories, allowing for the depth of exploration that doesn’t exist when you stay in one place. That has both its stresses and its benefits. When you traverse a large ground, you get the depth of the experience, but a certain lack of security.”

- Lilith Finkler, Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women’s Realities

“Sadly, there is a certain necessity, a certain self-protection in silence. Statistically, bisexual women are nearly twice as likely to experience domestic violence… The trope of heterosexual men asking for three ones with their bisexual partners is an eye roll, an annoyance, but this kind of thinking, this equating bisexuality with complete sexual openness and desire to please men, possibly so they won’t leave you, can be much more serious.”

- Annie Dobson, The Bi-ble: New Testimonials, Further original narratives and essays about bisexuality

Ariel Rebel and Nikita Bellucci

“Our oppressors gain ultimate control when we do their work for them… When lesbians and bisexual women spend our energy fighting each other about who loves women more, our enemies score a point for keeping us divided and therefore less able to join forces against heterosexism.”

- Naomi Tucker, Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives