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6 months ago

If a bisexual woman disagrees with me I will immediately change my views. I have no principles


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8 months ago
🥧💭 BI4BI BUBBLINE PRIDE ICONS !!
🥧💭 BI4BI BUBBLINE PRIDE ICONS !!
🥧💭 BI4BI BUBBLINE PRIDE ICONS !!
🥧💭 BI4BI BUBBLINE PRIDE ICONS !!
🥧💭 BI4BI BUBBLINE PRIDE ICONS !!

🥧💭 BI4BI BUBBLINE PRIDE ICONS !!

✧・゚please like or reblog if saving 🍂 requested by @pride-cat ・゚✧


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8 months ago

as a bi person, the bisexual flag brings me infinite joy and always puts a smile on my face, however as a person who has a Passion for Graphic Design, that undersaturated shade of purple infuriates me when it's used digitally

like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!

some people marching with a big bi flag stretched on a frame. the flag has "Bi-friendly South Bay - www.southbaybi.org - So B O A" written on it
A picture of a bi flag, looking bright in the sunlight

those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!

but now look at how it looks digitally

As A Bi Person, The Bisexual Flag Brings Me Infinite Joy And Always Puts A Smile On My Face, However

the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!

and let's look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:

In designing the Bi Pride Flag, I selected the colors and overlap pattern of the bi angles symbol. I selected, which to me, is the most attractive combination of pink, purple and blue. In flag-maker parlance this is magenta - PMS 226 (pink), lavender - PMS 258 (purple) and royal - PMS 286 (blue). I decided to make the top of the flag pink and would give it 40% of the vertical dimension. Purple, which is the resultant color when you overlap pink and blue, would be the middle stripe and would be 20% of the dimension. The lower 40% would be blue. 
                     

SYMBOLISM:

The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian), the blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi). The key to understanding the symbolism in the Bi Pride Flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the 'real world' where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.

(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it's okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it's also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we'd probably not say that bi people "blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.")

so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.

but...here's the deal

Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!

but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.

which got me wondering...what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?

As A Bi Person, The Bisexual Flag Brings Me Infinite Joy And Always Puts A Smile On My Face, However

oh! oh, my god.

As A Bi Person, The Bisexual Flag Brings Me Infinite Joy And Always Puts A Smile On My Face, However

look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!

As A Bi Person, The Bisexual Flag Brings Me Infinite Joy And Always Puts A Smile On My Face, However

look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!

and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!

let's compare all of them:

original flag
lab
linear rgb
lch
perceptual rgb
hsl

(top: original, lab. middle: lrgb, lch. bottom: rgb, hsl)

look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!

if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that's closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.

anyway, I guess I don't really have a point here? this isn't so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.

and sometimes, I think it's okay to compensate for that.

out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:

As A Bi Person, The Bisexual Flag Brings Me Infinite Joy And Always Puts A Smile On My Face, However

it's the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink

but that's just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!

anyway, thank you for coming with me on this colorful journey! I will now retreat back to inkscape and make pained sounds about inkstitch gradients until something tangible pulls me back into reality


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11 months ago

You can only choose one

Yaoi

Yuri


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6 months ago

did you know there are bisexual flowers and they’re perfect


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11 months ago

time for a new profile layout!! i know people are getting hyped up for arcane S2, but i've been getting into harley quinn (TAS) lately, and i'm very adamant about poison ivy also being bisexual ─ at least in this version!

7 months ago

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1 month ago
Preserving Bi Women’s History
Preserving Bi Women’s History
Preserving Bi Women’s History
Preserving Bi Women’s History

Preserving Bi Women’s History

Bisexual activist and scholar Robyn Ochs just announced the successful conclusion of a project she has been working on for 7 ½ years in collaboration with Amy Benson of Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library.

Back issues of Bi Women (now the Bi Women Quarterly) (1983-2009) and of North Bi Northwest (a publication of the Seattle Bisexual Women’s Network) are now archived and available via Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library. They have been digitized, and are searchable and available to the public.

Here’s the press release from Harvard’s Schlesinger Library:

Boston is home to the longest-lived bisexual women’s periodical in the world. Bi Women Quarterly, a grassroots publication, began in September 1983 as a project of the newly-formed Boston Bisexual Women’s Network.

Staffed entirely by volunteers, and containing essays, poetry, artwork, and short fiction on a wide range of themes, Bi Women Quarterly provides a voice for women who identify as bisexual, pansexual, and other non-binary sexual identities.

Robyn Ochs, editor of Bi Women Quarterly since 2009, donated the only complete collection of this publication to Schlesinger Library several years ago with the agreement that it would be preserved, and digitized in a searchable format. The digitized collection at Schlesinger covers the years 1983 to 2010. We are delighted to announce that this project is complete, and this resource is now available to researchers and to the general public through Harvard’s catalog.

Making the voices of bi women accessible will hopefully provide researchers primary material with which to begin to fill this gap.

Issues of Bi Women Quarterly from 2009 to the present can be found online a BiWomenBoston.org. These more recent issues will be added to the Library’s collection in the near future. 


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1 year ago

“Politicised bisexuals want to connect with lesbian/gay groups, not to overthrow them, and to strengthen, not dilute, lesbian/gay anger and power.”

- Amanda Udis-Kessler, Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives


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