The Sacrosanct Identity, Bigotry And The Enabling Of Oppression

09Nov10

Crossposted at The Spectrum Cafe Identity. It’s deeply personal and for the most part we go way out of our way to protect it. Not just our own but others as well. At least when identity policing and erasure isn’t going on. It’s one of those sacrosanct inviolable rules of the Alphabet Soup community (GLBTQQIAsomethingsomethingetc) […]

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Tags: cissexism, erasure, identity, monosexuality, polysexuality, racism, sexuality, trans

Bisexuality, Binarism And Why Everyone Has It Wrong

11Oct10

Crossposted at The Spectrum Cafe I’d like to leave a note here that one can use bisexuality to mean more than two genders attracted to provided the why for it isn’t binarist or cissexist. Because the base definition isn’t inherently cissexist, there’s a lot of leeway to play with the word as an identity without […]

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Tags: binarism, bisexuality, cissexism, erasure, monosexuality, polysexuality, sexuality