It's an equal to "gay" or "lesbian" or "straight" (which term I dislike because its connotation is "as opposed to 'bent'" and that doesn't thrill me) not a way-station on a road heading one way or the other. What Author Shaw does is build a good case, based on research and science, for the existence and validity of the identity "bisexual" as a separate thing. When that erasure comes at you from all sources and angles, including the one with a letter for your identity in its public face, that can feel disheartening and rejecting. And bisexuality, being by its nature focused on sexual activity, is simply not an acceptable identity in the heteronormative prescriptivist world.Īuthor Shaw, who also includes a lot of other identities in her discussion, corrects this misperception with an assertion that bisexuality is in fact an identity and to diminish that is to indulge in bi erasure. No one ever explains to you, "oh, I'm straight" because we assume they are unless they make a point of not being. And that's what Author Shaw has set out to correct.that sense of non-inclusion that heteronormative society, whether straight or gay, attaches to labeled people. When one says "bisexual" without the modifier "man/male" the presumption is one's referring to a woman/female. My Review: I've contended publicly that bisexuality is the disrespected stepchild of the QUILTBAG community. I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. Real Rating: 4.5* of five, rounded up for the "Bidentity List"
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