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Bisexual flag color picked from the northern lights 🩷💜💙

Bisexualsexual is a term for individuals who are attracted to bisexuals.

Bisexual Bisexualsexual is a term for bisexuals who are exclusively or primarily attracted to bisexuals.

Pansexual Bisexualsexual is a term for pansexuals who are exclusively or primarily attracted to bisexuals.

Gay Man Bisexualsexual is a term for gay men who are exclusively or primarily attracted to bisexuals.

Lesbian Bisexualsexual is a term for lesbians who are exclusively or primarily attracted to bisexuals.

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I read Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw and I was shocked at how much more severe the issue of biphobia and bimisogyny is than most people, even within the bisexual community, even realize. I’ve posted links to the relevant quotes from this book and organized them under these broad points:

bi men are targeted by both homophobia and biphobia; biphobia bi men experience is a materially distinct oppression than homophobia;

bi women are targeted by both lesbophobia and biphobia; bimisogyny, the intersection of misogyny and biphobia, is a materially distinct oppression from lesbophobia;

bisexuals of color, disabled bisexuals, and trans/nb bisexuals experience profound erasure from bi representation and scholarship, and access to necessary resources;

bi people experience "double discrimination"/biphobia from the straight and gay communities; bi ppl are at risk of discrimination for bisexuality specifically;

This biphobic discrimination in the gay community goes back decades;

the terminology used to describe gay rights is often exclusive of us to a damaging degree. this means in addition to specific biphobic struggles, bisexuals often must face generalized homophobia without the "buffer" of acceptance in the larger LGBT+ community and with some enhanced difficulties acquiring LGBT+ resources; and finally,

positive aspects of bisexuality and bi identity/nuance corner.

The most important information I found is that bi+ people have a higher rate of mental health issues, suicidal and self-harm issues, addiction, isolation, rape, IPV, stalking, abuse, and are less likely to be out as bisexual or to have strong connections to the larger LGBT+ community to act as a buffer against discrimination, as opposed to lesbians and gay men. They are also erased and denied access to LGBT+ spaces, resources, and legal protections. As opposed to gay men and lesbians, the particularities of the bisexual experience includes 1) experiencing double discrimination, 2) less likely to be out, resulting in mental health issues 3) bisexuals are more isolated on average than LG people, and 4) bisexuals struggle with internalized biphobia. I've broken down these arguments and sourced further information on the material affects of biphobia here on my Wordpress blog, since Tumblr won't let me post the full quote all at once, but you can find the quotes with the specific research and studies I'm basing these claims on in my tag for this book or under my general book quotes link, #education multiplies power

One of my posts about last year's Poison Ivy bi erasure debacle got a like again, and man...

You cannot convince me that fandoms don't have a problem with bisexual people, when the response to a prominent bisexual character seemingly having their bisexuality erased by a new writer calling her a lesbian was calls for celebration, and telling upset bisexual fans to get over it, or trying to gaslight them with claims that "Ivy was never bisexual in the main continuity" despite evidence to the contrary.

Like, fandom has had a biphobia problem for a long time, but I think that incident was probably the most blatant example of it I've ever seen.

‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️

"Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate."

Glimbow (She-Ra) || Quote by Clive Davis

Lupin Field

Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

Bisexual women are the coolest <3

| GLIMMER- She-Ra | HARLEY QUINN- DC | KORRA- Legend of Korra | MARCELINE- Adventure Time | LUZ NOCEDA- The Owl House | POISON IVY- DC | ASAMI SATO- The Legend of Korra | MERMISTA + ENTRAPTA- She-Ra | WONDER WOMAN/DIANA- DC

Image description: A Twitter thread from @BlizzardAvis that reads,

[Tweet 1] "If your criticism of bi women is 'well sometimes they bring their homophobe boyfriends to gay bars' oh boy do I have news for you about *your* transphobic and racist same sex partner in gay bars."

[Tweet 2] "You don't care about the safety of queer people in gay bars, you are just bimisogynistic."

[Tweet 3] You know what! Let's add to this. Why is your first instinct to blame the bi woman, who is very obviously in an abusive relationship and suffers from his homophobia more than any of you combined? Why aren't you offering her help? An escape? Resources to help her leave her abuser?"

/end ID

Presenting two new bi Femme/Butch flags!

As a bi Femme I decided to make two new bi Femme/Butch flags that are meant for ALL bi people,regardless of gender! :) It's for bi people ONLY! Feel free to give me tips for improvement,especially regarding the colours!