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The Social Distancing Patch & Pin Set
For 2020, you want to keep people at bay? Look no more! With this new patch and pin set by French Canadian artist Sophie Labelle, you’re sure to keep haters at least 2 meters of distance away. (Side effect might be to make new queer and trans friends).
Patches and pins also sold separately on the shop!
Includes :
▼ Glow-in-the-dark trans symbol iron-on patch;
▼ I don’t care if you’re from California, dude isn’t gender-neutral iron-on patch;
▼ Life sucks sometimes but at least I’m not straight iron-on patch;
▼ Gaaaaaay glittery metallic pin.
▼ Trans mushrooms and leaves glittery metallic pin.
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ACADEMIC STUDY: Are you 18+ years of age, live in the USAandself-id(even just quietly mosty to yourself)asBisexual+,Biromantic+ or otherwise a member of the LGBTQIA+ Communities?
If yes, please help out some nice Queer Academics who are studying Queer Resilience and Strength in the face of Stigma by Clicking the above Link and filling out their anonymous survey.
The purpose of this study is to better understand how LGBTQ+ individuals thrive and flourish despite the experience of discrimination.
Thank you
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#Bisexual week and “Bi the way…”
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#biweek #bisexual #transbisexual #biwomen #bimen #bisexualawarenessweek #biplus #bisexuality #bilatinx #biyouth #bipoc #biawareness #therainbowtimes #rainbowtimesmagazine #independentmedia #bitheway #humanrights #lgbt #lgbtq #instagay #love #pride #gaymemes #lovewins #loveislove #equality #tgif #biandproud #bivisibility #bisexualmemes #biweek
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#Repost @pridetrain
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Bisexuality is NOT A PHASE. Bisexuality is VALID. Bisexuality is BEAUTIFUL.
(at Providence, Rhode Island)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2oqAu8Aby1/?igshid=1ss5yz8helyta
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Photo from last summer. Inherited hydrangea and my only involvement here is cutting off the tops in late autumn. Magic
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Happy Valentine’s Day to all our followers and all of bi tumblr! You are loved <3
(Image description: “I (heart emoji) my bi family” text in dark pink over a pale pink image of candy hearts on a pink plate)
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Happy Valentine’s Day [Image: Hearts and Flowers - A photo of a romantic heart-shaped shabby chic wreath in the pink purple and blue bisexual pride colours]
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a few valentine’s day poems about discovering your sexuality ♥
Violets are blue, and so is the sky. I like a few genders, I must be Bi+
And so are we ♂️♀️♀️ ♂️♀️♂️♀️♂️♂️♂️♀️ Hooray!
❤️ Happy Valentines Day to to everyone everywhere ❤️
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Image: on a plain white background, thrusting up thru the words “Refuse To Be Invisible” written in a bold, black type is the drawing of an upraised arm from below the wrist, with the hand in a clenched fist, the image is coloured in with the Pink, Purple and Blue of the Bisexual+ Pride Flag
Attention conference coordinators: Unless your stated theme is “White people are the arbiters of what constitutes knowledge & expertise” there is absolutely no reason to have that many white presenters. None. NONE.
And the few POC presenters need to be presenting on something other than racism.
I want all healing conferences to literally “flip the script”. Most of the presenters should be other than cismen, and most of the presenters should be POC.
If your lineup isn’t like this, it tells me you do not take the dismantling of White Supremacy seriously & therefore the lens that you approach healing—especially healing from trauma—is morally bankrupt and cannot lead us to liberation.It’s fucking 2020, fucking get with the goddamn program.
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fun thing i just remembered
in japanese, there’s a term for a person who dual wields swords called “ryoutoutsukai”, literally meaning something along the lines of “two sword user”. it’s ALSO a euphemism for bisexuality
Duel-wielding is bisexual culture
両刀使い
noun
- two-sword fencer; expert in various (more than one) fields; person who likes alcohol and sweets equally well; bisexual (person)
Nonbinary Folks Are Still Invisible, Even in Queer Spaces
Gender-bending-and-breaking icon Prince’s song “I Would Die 4 U,” opens with the line: I’m not a woman / I’m not a man / I am something that you’ll never understand. Any Prince fan knows that he’s talking about God, but to those outside of the gender binary and the expressions that are attached to it, it’s gospel. Prince accurately speaks to the lives of so many of us who aren’t understood, or who don’t fit in with the rest of the puzzle that is gender expression in the queer community. His lyrics call attention to a concept that, to this day, is impossible in many folks’ imaginings of gender — that it is not a binary or spectrum, but a universe of identities and expressions.
You can be masc; a boy/boi, stud, butch, bro, bruh, dad/daddy, masc4masc. You can be femme; feminine, a queen, a fem, a girl/gurl, lipstick, a princess, motha. The space between the two is like being in the middle of the dance floor while everyone stands on the sidelines. It’s like being the middle child who was too often overlooked by their parents. It’s being greeted with, “so, like, what are you?” It’s the silence from your own community because they don’t know what to do with you or how to see you. It’s often being too queer for queer people to conceptualize. It’s a losing game.
Those of us who don’t perform gender correctly — whether cis or trans — are often told to pick a side, or become tossed to the side entirely. We’re generally invisible to the wider community. People look at us and don’t know how to include us, love us, hear us, fuck us, or value us, because they’ve been taught to instill value and worth in the polar ends of the binary and the safety of rigid gender roles. Anyone living in-between or outside of the binary is disqualified or forgotten.
So much attention is given to how well one can perform these static roles. Do you have the lipstick? Do you have the swagger? Where’s your outfit? Watch your mannerisms! Queer spaces often devolve into pageant contests, and so many of us don’t even qualify to compete. What would the queer community look like if we allowed ourselves to just be? To just exist?
As a male-assigned agender person with no attachment to any gender identity or expression, I’ve always found it difficult to navigate queer spaces because I’ve never fit in with community constructs of gender expression. Even as a drag performer, an art form built upon subverting gender and gendered expectations, I can never escape this ominous binary. When queer people convene, we try to connect with others who express who they are in similar fashions, because finding friends and accomplices in this strange and exhausting world is vital to our survival. However, I can’t help but imagine what is going through the minds of folks who see me and try to decipher where on the gender expression spectrum I fall.
: Freddelanka
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What It’s Like to Medically Transition As a Nonbinary Person
At the time of this writing, I’ve just re-started hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
I’m nonbinary, but not everyone knows what that means — especially not in the context of medical transition. If you’re assigned male at birth, people assume that the “point” of transitioning is to get to female; to move from box “M” into box “F.” But the more I compared myself to a hypothetical woman, the more I felt stuck.
From the waitlist to the waiting room, I told people I wanted to be a woman. I thought that if I adhered to that script, it would keep doors open for me in terms of receiving medical care. But the truth is, I didn’t know what I wanted — I wasn’t trying to become a woman, but I didn’t know what I was trying to be. I wanted to transition, but I didn’t know how. I quit taking my hormones in January after starting only a couple of months prior. The physical changes began happening too quickly, and it left me feeling like I was losing my sense of control. Still, I knew that permanently stopping HRT wasn’t the right choice; it felt like failing.
Trans people are often mocked for being confused and emotional in regards to the choices we make with our bodies. For the sake of the trans community, I feel like I’m supposed to know what I want and who I am. But there are no roadmaps for me to follow. After all, how do you embody a category of experience that many people don’t even believe exists? How do you make sense of your body and how it’s changing when all available narratives feel too gendered to apply?
I talked about this over the phone with my friend JP, a 26-year-old self-identified dyke living in New York. JP has been on varying dosages of HRT for years. Their initial plan was to try hormones out by going on them long enough to see physical changes, and then stop taking them in order to assess how they felt. They weren’t sure how long they’d take them, but felt they needed to do something. I can relate. But JP’s doctor at the time (who no longer works at the same clinic) had a different idea.
“My doctor took it as some sort of failed experiment, rather than a person making choices,” JP says. “They didn’t understand what I actually wanted from HRT. She put me on hella spiro [spironolactone] and estradiol, and when I didn’t take as much as I was prescribed and my lab results reflected this, she prescribed me more.” JP began to hoard their hormones, taking their estradiol as close to appointment dates as possible in hopes of throwing off their blood test results.
The idea that every trans person has a unique relationship to their body seems intuitive, but can be an oddly foreign one to healthcare providers. The drug regimen JP was prescribed is by no means unusual, but it completely misaligned with what they actually wanted in terms of transitioning. JP does a lot of physical work, and in some cases, high doses of spironolactone can cause side effects like mood swings, fatigue, and muscular atrophy. They don’t see any merit to shrinking their muscles to fit what they consider a Eurocentric beauty ideal they don’t adhere to as a Black butch person. Over and over, JP would tell their endocrinologist that the spironolactone was affecting them negatively, but felt the doctor was dismissing it as unfounded or irrelevant to the goal of “feminization.”
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Pansexuality 101: 5 Key Facts You Need to Know
So, what is pansexuality? Pansexuality is “sexual desire or attraction that is not limited to people of a particular gender identity or sexual orientation.” A pansexual person is someone who is attracted to people of all genders — not just cisgender and transgender men and women, but nonbinary people, gender-nonconforming people, and anyone whose genders fall outside of the gender binary, or beyond traditional definitions of what it means to be a “man” or “woman.”
Because the term is unfamiliar to a lot of people, there have been a number of misconceptions and myths surrounding pansexuality. This introduction can help you understand the ins and outs of what it means to be pansexual (and maybe discover that you are pansexual yourself!). Here are the most important things you need to know about pansexuality:
“Pansexuality” and “bisexuality” are sometimes used interchangeably — and some people use both terms to describe themselves.
The prefix pan- means “all,” so pansexuality is an attraction to all genders, or an attraction to others regardless of gender. The term bisexual is often assumed to mean attraction to two genders, or attraction to men and women (this is still the definition according to many dictionaries), but bisexuality isn’t inherently binary. Bisexual people are attracted to people of both the same gender and different genders from their own. There’s even the emerging term bi+, which makes it more explicit that the term isn’t limited by binary definitions of gender and sexuality. Many people use both pansexual and bisexual to describe themselves, depending on the context. And some pansexual and bisexual people use “queer” to describe themselves as well!
Pansexuals can be attracted to anyone of any gender, but it doesn’t mean they’re attracted to everyone.
It’s a myth to think that pansexuals are simply attracted to everyone they encounter. Just because someone has the potential to be attracted to people regardless of gender doesn’t mean that they’re any more or less likely to be attracted to a particular person. That’s like saying straight women are attracted to all men, which is obviously untrue.
Pansexual is not a new term.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term pansexual has been around since at least the early 1900s as a psychological term that describes sex as a primary motivator for human beings. Its current definition has been around since at least the late 1960s. The idea of sexual attraction that isn’t limited to binary constructions of gender is not new — it’s just that more and more people believe it to be possible and positive.
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