Bi-supremacy - Untitled

“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

“Bisexuality… is a permanent state of flux, a liminal space where you can be either/or, but you can also be neither/nor…

You have chosen (or, if you prefer, been chosen by) an unfixed, untitled, and shape-shifting identity. One that by definition resists categorisation. Instead it commands flexibility, restlessness, the endless possibility of change.”

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

Bobby Briggs…

Twin Peaks: Coma (1990) dir. David Lynch

“This culture is not only heterosexist, homophobic, and biphobic, it is thunderously sex-phobic, and we women especially have borne the brunt of it. It seemed we could only choose between pristine purity - with attendant boredom - or infamy as sluts. Worse, if we showed any interest in sex at all, sexist men would take that as an invitation to walk all over us and abuse us. Even if we showed no interest, sexist males would take our mere femaleness as invitation. No wonder the radical-feminist line hardened around an anti-sex stance, and the whole realm of sex had become tainted by all that uninvited, often violent attention.

But, isn’t it about time to reconquer the realm of sex for ourselves? Isn’t it time for this woman to ask: “What do I want? What turns me on? Who turns me on if I’m not influenced by any attitudes whatsoever, neither from left nor right, neither from straight nor gay and lesbian? Isn’t it time to finally drop all labels of sick or sinful or politically incorrect? Is this not the most revolutionary act as a woman could perform today?””

- Ellen Terris, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

“(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

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Conte d’Été (Éric Rohmer, 1996)