Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

by Jen Winston

You act unfazed, like they’re all beneath you, but you know men are the romantic equivalent of shishito peppers—one out of every twelve will fuck you up.

I might have understood queerness as a lens to help us envision the future: Did we really want to be “equal” by measure of a racist, sexist, monosexist society, or can we, perhaps, aim higher?

Her point was that if we only focus on equality, we’ll only end up achieving assimilation. While that’s still a form of progress,V there’s a blatant cognitive dissonance in associating “queer liberation” with access to straight white institutions.