“In The 1970s, I Saw Myself First And Foremost As A (radical) Feminist. I Did Not Have A Primary Awareness

i suffer from 'men are hotter banged up' disease. unfortunately there is no cure.

“Many of us feel threatened when the categories we believe in are challenged, especially if they shape our sense of who we are. Not only do bisexuals contradict a primary set of cultural categories - our culture calls us “decadent” because we refuse to play by the rules, thereby undermining the social “order” - but we challenge many people’s personal sense of what constitutes sexual identity. Whether we threaten by introducing a third category or by undermining the notion of categories altogether, we cause enough discomfort that many people deny our existence.”

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

“I don’t like gay and lesbian people’s ignorance about bisexuals. It’s rare to find a politically savvy bisexual person who isn’t involved in the gay and lesbian community, but many gays and lesbians have no knowledge of bisexual people. We’re still laughed at, trivialized, seen as purveyors of disease, seen as riding on the coattails of the gay rights movement, as if we weren’t there all along.

To me, these attitudes toward us come from ignorance and self-hatred. If somebody feels really good about who they are, they don’t feel threatened by what other people are…

Heading and saying “gay, lesbian, and bisexual” is music to my ears. Because the more unity we achieve, the more we put aside petty differences, the more strength we have.”

- Dr Maggi Rubenstein, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

I just want to slap a pretty boy in the face and have him thank me. Dick hard, eyes soft and wanting as he bites his lip. Face reddened from my handprint.

You like that, don’t you, you little slut?

@jamilla.strand

“When you do take the trouble to point out that you are, in fact, bisexual - that no matter whether you are with a man or a woman you will always have the potential to go either way - people look at you with scepticism, confusion, disbelief, or perhaps even envy. Their faces say this: you’re lying to yourself, it’s just a phase, you don’t know what you want, you’re letting the side down, you’re greedy, you don’t exist. But you do exist. Here you are.”

- Chitra Ramaswamy, The Bi-ble: an anthology of personal essays and narratives about bisexuality