It's #BiVisibilityMonth so I'm about to drop some thoughts full of big bi energy for you all (plus more over the next month )

Social progress is about community, & community is the family you didn't get to have. Only by building & maintaining a vibrant, visible bisexual / m-spec community can we make real progress on social issues that matter to & affect people who experience attraction beyond gender

Bisexuality is not the waiting room between gay and straight, it's not the purge of limbo between identities. We face very specific social issues and we need the space to discuss, strategise, and communicate

Fellow bisexuals: We need to be heard. We need to be seen. We need to have space & pave the way for the many possibilities for future queers. We need representation because it matters

Representation helps us to not feel ashamed of our sexual & gender identities & the complexities of accepting who we are in a society that extends to us only a certain degree of freedom in the face of intolerance, before announcing that enough is enough

Fundamentally, bisexual identities exist from questioning the norm. It is about questioning society itself, how it is built on capitalism, oppression, patriarchy. Being queer is precisely something people within the “norm” (read: cis-het folks) will never get to understand fully

It contains the ability to deconstruct and to own & to be empowered & to be freed. We are so easily threatening to the cis-hetero capitalist patriarchy that to force ourselves to fit into something is suffocating

Queerness derives its radical power from its inclusivity, but such inclusivity offers false promises of equality which do not translate into the lived realities of most bi folk

We exist at the intersection of the personal & the political, a means by which to measure how, & to what extent, the personal becomes the political. The apparent fissures & contradictions between sexual & political identities, political and personal, emotional commitments,

produce a yearning for language distinguished & free from oppressive regulations to capture the breadth of contradiction that permeates the efforts of individuals, as well as communities, to subvert, or modify the dominant heteronormative constructions of gender & sexuality

It is through a commitment to establishing relationships & bonds that resist the domination of heterosexually gendered positions that new boundaries can be defined, identities transformed, a reflection of the many possible sexual & gendered selves we can inhabit, create, explore

Being visibly queer & outwardly expressing our bisexuality is a survival technique, but only when we are not threatened with death, harm, abuse; it is the necessary catharsis that allows us to exist

Queer spaces have historically been contingent, precarious, or invisible to outsiders of "the queer" identity. It cannot be denied that location and gatekeeping play a crucial role in carving out communal spaces, cementing the importance of highlighting the local context

The collective agency of shaping forms of resistance to heteronormative social constraints thereby questions the ethnocentric assumptions of what it means to be empowered through the potential of visibility

Today, and tomorrow, and every day of my future, I will take this experience forward and will continue to be proud of my identity. I'm proud not because of who I choose to love, but because of who I choose to be within this identity of mine and my own intersections