10 of the Best Bisexual Pins on Etsy
Enhance your jacket or backpack with an identity affirming pin or two, from the treasure trove of Etsy.
1. Go Simple
With a classic button from CatStasher
2. Show your romantic side
With this enamel love heart from Compoco Pop
3. Keep it classy
With a monochrome statement from wordforwordfactory
4. Embrace your various identies…
With a bundle from CwtchPride
5. … or share with your friends
With Bimblesnoot’s cute selection
6. Put the Bee back in LGBT
With an apiculturists delight from theartfulscientist
7. Get pixelated
With some throwback crafting from BowsbyRia
8. Submit to the inevitable cash-in
With a bisexual Poké Ball by EllenKayDesign
9. Subtly combat erasure
With a declaration from astropuke
1o. Re-live your emo phase
With a vespertilionine pun from shopfives
Pan on Campus: Biscuit Interviews Pansexuality Advocate Elle Long
Pansexuality may be as old as the hills, but the pansexual movement is still young, and that means that it’s still a little mysterious to outsiders. We’re natural allies, and we’re nosy, too, so we caught up with advocate Elle Long to get the skinny on what’s happening in pan activism right now.
Hi Elle! First of all, tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do. How long have you been involved in pansexual activism and advocacy? What sort of things do you get up to as an advocate?
I am a junior at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, majoring in Political Science and Law, minoring in Ethnic Studies. I’m involved with the Speech and Debate team for the school but that’s about as sporty as I get!
My main focus in advocacy for pansexuality has been education and it started when I came… Continue reading
Eight Myths About Pansexuality, Debunked
It’s hard to deny that ignorances and misunderstandings about pansexuals exist, and the bisexual community is not immune – despite facing plenty of myths of our own. Myths around bisexuality and pansexuality overlap, but pansexuality also attracts some unique prejudices. It’s time to put them all to bed, starting with eight of the most common panphobic myths.
MYTH: Pansexual is a new term
FACT: We’ve been seeing the word pansexual since at least 1924. It’s shifted in meaning since it was coined, of course, just like the words ‘bisexual’, ‘homosexual’ and even ‘furniture’, ‘girl’ and ‘manufacture’. That’s just how language works.
It was first used by contemporary critics of Freud such as Otto Rank and Wilhelm Reich in derision, as an ironic validation of Freud’s suggestion that “that the sex instinct plays the primary part in all human activity”; or that our libidos either directly or indirectly, drive… Continue reading
15 People Making the Same Goddamn Pansexual Joke
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…
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That’s right, I’m sexualy attracted to pans.
— J. Crocker (@MrJeremyCrocker) August 30, 2015
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You Didn't Hear it From Us 30/05/15
Here’s a round-up of some of the news, blogs posts and comment we missed this week.
- A teen who planned to come out in his valedictory speech was banned from speaking by his school.
- Orashia Edwards, a bisexual asylum seeker, had his planned deportation flight cancelled.
- The ‘gay bull’, Bengy, likes girls too…
- North America’s only openly pansexual lawmaker spoke about her sexuality.
- A new report details the inequality of legal protection and right for LGBTQ Americans.
- Tatum O’Neil is dating girls now.
- A lesbian listed the reasons dating bi women is actually pretty awesome.
- There’s a hot new queer dating app, and it was built by a woman of colour.
- Trans activists blockaded a detention centre in California.
Did we miss any other must-see stories? Let us know in comments…
Image: “Northland High School valedictorian joins Navy”… Continue reading
Fans vs fiction: Queerbaiting in "Supernatural"
“Queerbaiting is clinging to the heteronormative interpretation on the surface of things, and refusing to invalidate it, but still trying to present a queer reading in the background; metaphorically selling the hetero story from the front door, and the queer story out back.” – Rowan
Sometimes we hold on, far past when we think we should call it quits, because of hope – painful, agonising, stubborn hope. For me, an important source of hope fizzled out in the wake of a Supernatural episode “Fan Fiction” that aired on Tuesday November 11, 2014. My hope ended with these words: you have your version, we have ours.
There’s plenty of speculation out there on whether Supernatural queerbaits its lead male characters Dean, Sam, and Castiel, but there’s no question in my mind that big media corporations recognise and make every attempt to profit over highly popular fan pairings, straight or otherwise. It’s the very heart of television marketing. Supernatural has explicitly acknowledged the popular ships “wincest” and “destiel” in the show itself, alerting fans that they see what they’re up to and know what they want. Wincest, as it involves two brothers, is highly unlikely to ever become an explicit relationship, but fans take the queerbaiting involving destiel, two non-related main male characters, seriously because why shouldn’t we?
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