Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

by Julia Shaw

note, I feel like starfish should be the mascots for queerness. They engage in homosexual and heterosexual behavior, they can reproduce asexually, and while most starfish are either male or female some species can switch their sex.

There are many excellent reasons to not want to reveal your sexual identity, and the idea that queer people need to bare their sexual soul publicly in order to be true to themselves is fraught with problems.

First, people who are bisexual experience double discrimination. This means that people experience biphobia not just from the heterosexual community but also from members of the queer community.

The structures of sexual oppression run through everything, including legal systems, but most importantly they run straight through our minds. Let us burn our blindfolds and embrace the human capacity to love freely.