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<_< get a load of this guy

Anyways! Thank you to everyone who’s been participating

Hi I’m thinking about writing something about the bisexual experience concerning Compulsory Heterosexuality, and I’m curious to hear a little bit from y’all. So naturally its poll time again. I encourage you to leave your thoughts and experiences in the notes! <3

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Hi I’m thinking about writing something about the bisexual experience concerning Compulsory Heterosexuality, and I’m curious to hear a little bit from y’all. So naturally its poll time again. I encourage you to leave your thoughts and experiences in the notes! <3

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Btw the only reason I haven’t ended up using this blog as a personal rant journal this month is because I simply do not have enough WIPs in a decent state to pay the discourse tax

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reminder that "allies welcome" was once secret code for "those not out yet can still participate without putting themselves at risk", and for those who aren't out yet to comfortably exist in these spaces you have to let allies exist in those spaces too.

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“If the word for you is butch, remember, your history is one of strength and survival, and it is largely silent. Do not hide this word under your tongue. Do not whisper it or sweep it under the basement stairs. Let it fill up your chest and widen your shoulders. Wear it like a sleeve tattoo, like a medal of valour.

Learn to recognize other butches for what they really are: your people. Your brothers or your sisters. Both are just words that mean family. Other butches are not your competition, they are your comrades. Be there when they need you. Go fishing together. Help each other move. Polish your rims or your chrome or your boots together. See these acts for what they really are: solidarity.”

-Ivan Coyote, A Butch Roadmap

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🩷💜💙Happy Pride!!🩷💜💙

Happy Pride Month to:

Trans Bisexuals

Intersex Bisexuals

Bisexuals in the closet

Bisexuals who are out and loud

Bisexual Sapphics

Bisexual Achilleans

Bisexuals with a straight partner

Bisexuals with a gay partner

Bisexuals who are single

Bisexuals who are aromantic

Biromantics who are asexual

Aroace bisexuals (you are stronger than the troops)

Bisexuals with contradictory labels

Bisexual butches

Bisexual femmes

Bisexual girlboys

Bisexual boygirls

Bisexuals with no gender

Bisexuals with all the genders

Bi dykes

Bi fags

Bis who are both

Bisexuals dealing with internalized biphobia

Bisexuals dealing with internalized homophobia

Bisexuals with religious trauma

Bisexuals who used to think they were straight

Bisexuals who used to think they were gay

Late in life bisexuals

Polyamorous bisexuals

Monogamous bisexuals

Slutty bisexuals

Annoying Bisexuals

Bisexual baristas

Pan, Omni, and Polysexuals of all types mentioned above

AND EVERYONE ELSE!

HAPPY PRIDE!

(Bonus: The pride drawing from the chalkboard from the café I work at, because I am nothing if not a bisexual barista)

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Mount Holyoke College students

at Pride in Northampton, MA (1989)

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Reblogs appreciated <3

Books listed: (They aren't in order according to the post)

Murder Land by Carlyn Greenwald

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake

Behooved by M. Stevenson

The Bi Book by A.J. Irving

Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian

Summer Girls by Jennifer Dugan

Love in Focus by Lyla Lee

Accepted Precedent by Irene Bahrd

A Fate Forged in Fire by Hazel McBride

That's What She Said by Eleanor Pilcher

A Poisonous Silence by Jenny Adams

And They Were Roommates by Page Powars

Aurethia Rising by Atlas Laika

A Ransom in Blood by Jessie Thomas

Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus

Soul Burn (Blood Tethered #3) by I.S. Belle

Take My Word by Dani McLean

Bark & Bite by A.A. Fairview

Get Real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado

Shifting Nature (Shape-Shifter, #8) by Jae

Enemies by Nature by Jae

The Scavengers and the Stray by Rae Ryan

One Honeymoon, Two Hockey Bros, Three Little Words by Oslo Fox

All I Know So Far by Nicole Zelniker

Van Terra II: Overdrive by Rory North

Tyler's Guarded Heart by E.J. Stoll

Discovering Nicola by Clare Ashton

Hits Different by Joel Rustin

Shade Spells with Strangers (Fae & Human Relations, #3) by Sarah Wallace

Brim Over Boot by Emmy Sanders

Lava At First Sight by Adelaide Snow

Demon Engine by Marten Norr

Loyalty to the Max by Maya Darjani

The Blood of The Covenant by Andy J. N. McRae

Friends with Benefits by Marisa Kanter

Unveiling The Shadowbearer's Burden: Expanded + Bonus Scenes: A Dark Fantasy Erotic Romance Anthology (Special Edition) by Jasmyn Morning

How to Flaunt Your Chains and Surrender a Vein by D.N. Bryn

Every Move You Make by Spencer Sloan

Discovering Gold by Sam Ledel

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[Boston Bisexual Women’s Network, June/July 1995]

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Boston Bisexual Women’s Network (June/July, 2000)

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As A Bisexual™️

I love lesbians!

Lesbians are wonderful! We have so much in common, so much more than we do different. Some lesbians used to think they were bi, some of us used to think we were lesbians, we share experiences, communities, spaces, terminology, jokes, fashion, and music. We started off in community together, and we still find ways to love each other to this day. We’re allies, sisters, brothers, siblings, friends, lovers, spouses, roommates even! Sapphics are so much stronger when we’re in solidarity with each other, so just remember

I Love Lesbians!

And You Should Too!

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"And I would say that people who were referred to as [...] butches, et cetera, nowadays we think of them sometimes as just being synonymous with a certain kind of sexuality but in fact there’s a lot of butch women who sleep with other butches or who are bisexual."

Leslie Feinberg in In the Life: Interview with Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg [unedited footage]

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Bisexual Butch Literary Evidence - Chapter: “Transcripts, Transtape™, Transience: Locating the Bisexual Butch” - El Reid Buckley

This chapter is found in the book "Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity" edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth Murphy. Published by Routledge just last year in 2024.

Despite its title, this book contains multiple references to bisexuality, including the above chapter on bisexual butch (& trans) identity.

The chapter itself and bisexual butch identity are further discussed with the book's editors on the podcast Queer Lit (listen to the episode here and skip to 30 minutes in for the discussion of the chapter on bisexual butches).

Enjoy if you decide to read my loves!!

Sending bi love, visibility & pride to my bi butch siblings <3

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some historical bisexual photos!

reminder for this pride that bisexuals have always been a part of queer liberation, we have always existed and we always will <3

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While I’m at it, a lot of y’all’s “preferences” are rooted in bigotry that you simply choose not to analyze because you’re too comfortable in it :)

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I fear I’m gonna have to make a “(de)centering men” post

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“I will never say to anyone, especially a friend or a lover, that what they are doing is ‘not butch’ or ‘not femme.’ I don’t believe it is possible for a butch to do something not butch or a femme to do something not femme. For most of us who claim these words, we do become them, and they become us, and thus everything we do is inside of them.… There is no singular standard of conduct for all butches everywhere. We all pick and choose different parts of masculinity, different parts of humanity, to make up our individual characters. Some of us may align with more traditional, stereotypical masculinity than others. Some of us embody a great many supposed contradictions—and like it that way.”

— Sinclair Sexsmith, “With Both Fists: Conscious Gender Building through the Butch and Femme Identities,” Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (Eds. Ivan E. Coyote & Zena Sharman)