Summary of Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantaffi's Life Isn't Binary

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#1 Sexuality is the area where the gay/straight binary is most challenged, and yet it still persists. People still tend to stick to the gay/straight binary, and non-binary sexuality is often ignored or erased.

#2 Representations of bisexuality have been changing over the last few years. In music, for example, Janelle Monáe, a contemporary queer and Black icon, used what has been termed bisexual lighting in her video for Make Me Feel.

#3 The bisexual lighting meme indicates how thirsty people are for openly bisexual representation. However, bisexual people are often invisible in dominant cultural contexts.

#4 Bisexuality is still not widely accepted in society, and is often associated with immaturity and experimentation. People also believe that it is unreasonable to want something beyond the binary of gay or straight.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822503052

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Insights on Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantaffi's Life Isnt Binary

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Sexuality is the area where the gay/straight binary is most challenged, and yet it still persists. People still tend to stick to the gay/straight binary, and non-binary sexuality is often ignored or erased.

#2

Representations of bisexuality have been changing over the last few years. In music, for example, Janelle Monáe, a contemporary queer and Black icon, used what has been termed bisexual lighting in her video for Make Me Feel.

#3

The bisexual lighting meme indicates how thirsty people are for openly bisexual representation. However, bisexual people are often invisible in dominant cultural contexts.

#4

Bisexuality is still not widely accepted in society, and is often associated with immaturity and experimentation. People also believe that it is unreasonable to want something beyond the binary of gay or straight.

#5

Many scientists have tried to prove whether or not bisexuality exists, but most surveys indicate that bi people are one of the largest groups in the rainbow. They do not set out to prove scientifically whether straight people exist, but some scientists feel the need to prove that bi people do not exist.

#6

The harmful stereotype of bisexual people as threats is often expanded to view bisexual women as hypersexual and sexually available, and bisexual men as vectors of disease.

#7

The gay/straight binary is one of the many binaries in dominant culture that has been personally harmful to us. It is also one of the binaries that has not changed despite decades of activism and awareness.

#8

The overlapping circles on the diagram demonstrate the problem. If we try to estimate the number of bisexual people, we get very different answers when we study the proportion of people who identify as