It Ain't Over Til the Bisexual Speaks
An Anthology of Bisexual Voices
Edited by Lo Shearing and Vaneet Mehta
The bisexual experience is, by necessity, incredibly diverse - we are likely to be attracted to different genders, form part of multiple marginalised groups, and be perceived (depending on the gender of our partner) in wildly different ways...
This anthology is a radical and ambitious attempt to capture the incredible multiplicity of bisexual identities. With essays that unpack the intersectionality and conflict of bisexuality with history, language, sexual violence, class identity, religion, polyamory, gender critical ideology, fatness, trans activism, the asylum system, literature and anarchy - this collection of bi voices demands to be heard.
from Where Fatness and Bisexuality Meet: Discipline and Anglo-American Capitalism
by Maz Hedgehog
This need to systematise, to clearly separate out the “normal” from the “unnatural” and the “disciplined” from the “immoral” does not stop at queerness. Bodies are similarly categorised and rewarded/punished. However, Fatness shows that bodies cannot be tamed. The existence of fatness shows that bodies are destined to differentiate, to change size and shape as we grow and age. Fatness is therefore a sign that body size is not controllable. Whereas bisexuality, pansexuality and other multi-gender attractions show that desire cannot be tamed, that experiencing (apparently) heterosexual attraction does not preclude queerness, that sexuality is not inherently static and readily classifiable. In the face of this, fatness and bisexuality become spectres, signs of defect or incompleteness or immaturity to be feared and rejected. They become temporary categories which must be disciplined into maturity and coherence, lest the whole edifice fall apart.
Read the rest, along with essays by Shiri Eisner, Hafsa Qureshi, Zachary Zane, and many, many more.
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