“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
ALEXA DEMIE LEOPARD LIMO (Archive LL11)
“The fear is that if so many of us who are bisexual are also, and have also been, and will also be its (supposed) opposite, then bisexuality cannot exist ‘in its own right.’
To see that bisexuality exists as a real, distinct sexuality is essential for our survival and well-being - but it can also lead into a bisexual orthodoxy about what it means to be a ‘real bisexual’ which is alienating and destructive.”
- Jo Eadie, Bisexual Horizons: Politics, History, Lives
thank you masochists for existing so that people like me can lovingly beat you up
“(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
“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
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?