“The Person Who Believes (that There Is No Such Thing As A Distinct Bisexual Identity) Does Not Deny

it's funny how tops/doms are viewed as insatiable forces of lust when it's so obvious that that actually describes most bottoms way better than most tops

“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

“We were told we [could] only talk about the effects on our lives of being attracted to other women or femmes because “no one is oppressed for being in a heterosexual relationship.” We were accused of internalized homophobia… or being the reasons lesbians are fetishized and making lesbians look bad - that bisexual women were the reason why straight men thought that lesbians were sexually available… I never understood it, but it came up a lot… If you didn’t seem like you were a lesbian, or could be confused for one, then your position was a lot weaker. Your opinion didn’t quite matter as much. You were less likely to be one of authority in the group. Your loyalty to the community was more likely to get questioned. You were more likely to get accused of your ideas being part of the problem. Any time something came up, and you talked about it from the perspective of not being a lesbian, you were more likely to be told that your need to bring that up was part of the problem of why progress wasn’t being made.”

- Rylee, quoted by Jayna Tavarez, The Bi-ble: New Testimonials, Further original narratives and essays about bisexuality

pictures titled “just a girl and her dogs” but they’re all pictures of men in a submissive stance to the woman

"This book contains a queer scientist..."

"This book contains a trans adventurer..."

"This book has a bisexual detective..."

Okay, but is it good? Because as a member of the alphabet crowd, I don't care if it's lgbtq friendly when I'm gonna be bored shitless by a mediocre plot.

“I think (bisexuals) can offer an analysis of power inherent not only in male-female relationships but also in the dynamics that exist in other hierarchical relationships. If as bisexual women we can create models for egalitarianism, or for potential egalitarianism in relationships with men, then there’s also the potential to use those models between women. If we can build alliances with men, who are our oppressors, then also it means that for those of us who are white women, or are able-bodied women, that we can also begin to know our role as allies to women of colour, to disabled women, to psychiatrized women. You know, there’s that possibility.”

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