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bisexuality

FOR READERS: Books That do Bisexuality/Pansexuality Right

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Riffing off of today’s article about the new Google glossary, what spec fic books you’ve read got bisexuality and/or pansexuality right? And who are your fave #ownvoices bi/pan authors? Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR READERS: Erasing Bisexual Erasure

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Mass media has an unfortunate tendency to erase bi characters, or to go too far in the opposite direction to show they are bisexual by using promiscuity to illustrate bisexuality. So let’s do a bit of unerasure. What are your favorite books, movies and films that do bisexual characters well? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

FOR WRITERS: Writing Bisexuality

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Bisexual characters often get shafted in fiction – either they’re erased altogether, or they are promiscuous (because, of course, the only way to show that a character is bi is to have them sleep with both sexes). How can we write better bi characters? What do we get wrong, and what should we be getting right? This is a legacy chat. Join the chat

FOR READERS: Bi Visibility

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: What are your favorite bi characters in speculative fiction? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

TV/FILM: Bisexual Erasure – The Unicorn Scale

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Unicorns are amazing: it’s pretty safe to say that is a fact. Unicorns, however, also happen to be legendary creatures whose existence have been questioned by many. Just like bisexuals, we dare to say. Talia Squires, editor-in-chief at Bi.org and creator of the Unicorn Scale, agrees. The Unicorn Scale ‘explores the quality of bi representation in film and television’ and it does so in an entertaining way. Squires reviews movies and TV shows focusing on bisexual storylines and assigning from one to four unicorns. ‘Siskel and Ebert have thumbs, Leonard Maltin has stars, I wanted unicorns. The bi community has … Read more

FOR READERS: Bi in My Books

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: In honor of #biweek, let’s talk about queer speculative fiction with bi characters – what are your favorite books that include bisexuality and bi characters? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

Why Bisexual Visibility Matters

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For a long time, I thought self-acceptance of my bisexuality was enough. No one asked me for a label and I experienced very little overt discrimination. I toyed with the idea of telling my folks early on, but an older lesbian friend of mine advised against it. She knew that coming out to family could be difficult at the best of times, but the limited awareness and stigma associated with bisexuality in the 90s made it even harder. Thanks to the increasing profile of bisexual+ celebrities, such as Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming, bisexuality has become far more visible … Read more

WestWorld Star Evan Rachel Wood Talks About Bi Visibility

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The bisexual TV star spoke to an enraptured audience at the North Carolina Gala for the Human Rights Campaign after being honoured with their 2017 Visibility Award on the 7 February. Speaking honestly, Wood opened up about her life in her hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina where she lived as a tomboy “who happily ditched makeup for mud and ballet for a black belt”. Wood went on to explain that as she went through puberty, she began to understand her sexuality as she started to have crushes on girls in middle school. “I felt something that I couldn’t explain. And … Read more

For Writers: Bisexual Erasure

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Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Brian Cherry: Gay for you, bisexual erasure and gay romance with only one or no actual gay or bi character in the relationship. We have a long history of trying to make things black or white in our society – we like people to fit into either/or boxes. Even in the LGBTIQA community, this has been a problem. This has manifested itself in various ways over the years, many of them affecting our bisexual friends. For instance, for a long time, many gay men who fought hard to be open and proud about their … Read more