#bi umbrella

[pannn-cakesss]

LOL

[posi-pan]

happy bi visibility day and bi week to all the bi folks out there, as well as all the mspec folks who might not necessarily identify as bi but consider themselves part of the bi umbrella/community!!! y'all are wonderful and i hope you're having a lovely day!!! 💗💜💙

[aretheybisexual]

just making sure, you said you included pan character on this blog? Cause I submitted David from Schitt’s creek, who’s canonically pan, and I wanted to make sure.

Absolutely! We operate under the Bi Umbrella Theory - which includes pansexuality. 😁💙💛🩷 - Mod Pixie

[allthegaynamesaretaken]

Mansplain, Manipulate, Malewife Manwhore helix bracelet.

[evelyns-art-emporium]

Here are some flags on the Multisexual Spectrum with my malachite art style! I'm in the process of turning these (and many more pride flags) into stickers, magnets, and pins, and more!

If you have any suggestions for flags to makeover in this style, let me know!

You can find these flags here: Stickers & Magnets || (More coming soon!)

[tameable50]

A community for the entire bi umbrella!

[webbydoo]

You know what I can’t stand? The “bi only means two” people!! Who apparently I’m just finding out my fiancé is!! I mean, it’s not a deal breaker cause he has so many good qualities, but cmon!! Bisexuality for such a long time has meant loving two or more genders, and he has the gall to come in here like “I’m bisexual but I also love nonbinary people.” I mean, being a stickler for language is one thing, but you also should keep track of how language changes!! That’s what language does, and that’s what it was always meant to do!! It just felt sorta weird when he was trying to explain how he felt about his identity to me, and then he dropped that in there. It felt like “ I see bisexual as meaning only 2, but you get your own special category over here.”

[flyingdumpsterfire]

that moment where omnisexual is so hated on and underrepresented that you just tell people you're bi to stop them trying to correct your sexuality

i have come out to 2 people so far who have responded like this: me: I'm omnisexual, so I like all genders but I have a preference them: so you're bi another one I've heard is: me: i saw this hot guy today but then i also saw this hot girl and i had omni panic

them: why call yourself omni, that's too confusing, just use bi or pan more people understand that

what i'm trying to say is:

stop correcting people's sexualities, it's THEIR decision

Omnisexuality is valid and not biphobic whatever you might think

sToP oMnI eRaSuRe

thank you for coming to my TedTalk

(tagging my omni moot: @xxxsugarcyanidexxx)

[potentialfirehazard]

we need more Bi representation

the good and the bad

so here’s some links to some really cool bi themed videos about fandom and media

and

and

all credit of CORSE goes to these amazing youtubers!

just wanted to shine some light on these really informative vids !!

🌈🌈🌈

[harkenizalone]

I’m sorry that instead of getting much needed help for your serious mental health issues you got sucked into a trendy genderwoo cult that erases and demonises homosexuality, is deeply racist, misogynistic and unscientific, and is completely dependant on controlling others perception of you. You’ll never ever be able to stop people from perceiving you as the sex you are, they’re just scared to admit it. And you know what, that’s fine because sex is a neutral fact and it’s impossible to change. Go develop a personality and interests outside of your obsessive navel-gazing brainwashing cult. Good luck!

1: I have 2 therapists, so I do have mental help

2: being LGBTQ+ isn’t my entire personality, I just tend to talk about it often.

3: interests you say? How about me being obsessed with Pokemon for over a decade and having a huge collection of everything Pokemon related?

4: I’m technically not cisgender, because I don’t identify as completely female, but I’m still on the feminine side of things, so people calling me a woman is fine 🤷‍♀️

5: I don’t really care how people see me, as long as they don’t harass me or anything because of how they perceive me, I’m fine.

6: how is it racist or misogynistic? Idk where you got that from.

7: I don’t demonize homosexuality, I’m literally under the bi umbrella, so it’d be impossible. Also, I don’t care about demonizing, bc I’m pretty demonic myself ٩( ᐛ )و

Anyway, imma eat breakfast now 💅

[pannn-cakesss]

[posi-pan]

I’ve been wondering for a few days, are there any examples in history of bisexual directly being referred to as an umbrella/general term and that pansexuality falls under it?

hi! so yeah, there are some. i have a pansexual history carrd (google doc) that has a section specific to bisexual’s history of including other mspec labels (google doc), but i’ve compiled some sources here for you.

→ in janet bode’s 1976 book view from another closet: exploring bisexuality in women, not every woman interviewed for the book actually identified as bi—one woman listed a bunch of labels that she’d be fine with being called, one of which was pansexual.

→ pansexuals were in attendance at a 1989 bisexual conference, as described in an issue of bi women quarterly.

→ the “bi-lexicon” in thomas geller’s 1990 book bisexuality: a reader and sourcebook included pansexual (and pansensual).

→ in the 1995 book edited by naomi s. tucker, bisexual politics: theories, queries, and visions, liz a. highleyman described bisexuals as “bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, multisexual, just sexual, androgynous, genderfucked, bi-gendered, non-gendered, gender-indifferent, or don’t label me human beings.”

→ the bisexual magazine that the bisexual manifesto came from, anything that moves, stated in 1996 that they were “interested in work by bi/pan/or-similar-sexuals” in their call for submissions.

→ in a 1999 issue of bisexual magazine anything that moves, liz a. highleyman stated “whether you call yourself bisexual, polysexual, multisexual, pansexual, me-sexual or refuse to be labeled altogether, if you are like me and find people attractive regardless of their sex or gender, then we need you.”

→ in robyn ochs’ 2001 bisexual resource guide, an ann arbor bisexual group was listed as being for “bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, multisexual, bi-affectional folks.”

→ the introduction to robyn ochs and sarah e. rowley's 2005 book getting bi: voices of bisexuals around the world stated, “some identify as queer, pansexual, or omnisexual. [...] in fact, as we debated possible titles, we considered subtitling this book ‘voices of bisexuals and other folks along the sexuality spectrum,’ recognizing that the word bisexual cannot possibly encompass all whose identities challenge the binaries of gay and straight.”

→ the introduction to the 2005 book bi men: coming out every which way by ron jackson suresha and pete chvany stated “bisexuality itself has infinite flavors—omnisexual, polyamorous, queer, pansexual, bi-curious, asexual, trisexual (‘i’ll try anything!’), bi-friendly, ambisexual, heteroflexible, transgendered, intersex, metasexual, and multisexual.”

→ pansexuals were in attendance at bisexual meetings, as described in a 2008 issue of bi women quarterly, which also stated it’s good for mspec people of different labels to “feel a sense of community through some unifying term,” referring to bisexual.

→ ellyn ruthstrom described a 2009 bi conference in bi women quarterly and stated, “i took the opportunity to ask a whole bunch of people who went to a conference with bisexual in the title more about how they identify,” and listed all the labels attendees used, pansexual among them.

→ georgia garvey in the 2011 article “bi times” stated “queer, hetero-flexible, homo-flexible, pansexual, omnisexual, and bisensual” are “all members of the bi family.”

→ a blog post from shiri eisner in 2011 included a graphic of an umbrella labeled bisexual with all the different labels that are under it, one of which was pansexual.

→ in bi women quarterly in 2011, shiri eisner described the 10th international conference on bisexuality in london and said, “being able to experience a space dedicated to the bisexual community, full of bisexual, pansexual and queer people was deeply heartening for me.”

→ in a 2011 issue of bi women quarterly, ellyn ruthstrom described a bi workshop “exploring the variety of identifiers that the bi community uses to name ourselves, from bi, fluid, pansexual, omnisexual, pomosexual and more.”

→ shiri eisner said in her 2013 book bi: notes for a bisexual revolution, “recently the word bisexual has been assigned a new use with increasing popularity—that of an umbrella term for multiple bi-spectrum identities” and listed pansexual among said identities.

now, i know that not all of these examples explicitly discuss bisexual as an umbrella/general term (those kind of direct conversations happen more recently, from 2013 and on, as the term itself is more recent), but it’s very clear that the concept of bisexual being a term/community many different labels and people are included in is very much not new, and that this is the understanding in the examples i’ve given where that conversation isn’t explicitly discussed.

my carrd/google doc for sources on the bisexual community including/welcoming all mspec folks is much more detailed and includes examples that go beyond ones that specifically mention pansexual—there are some that mention other mspec labels, some that don't mention any specific labels but discuss the conversations and debates about labels, and some still that are just examples of bisexual content/events including or just mentioning other mspec labels, all showing that the bisexual community, in a broad sense, has never tried to enforce bisexual as the only mspec label and has never been an exclusive club that requires use of bisexual in order to enter.

i hope you found this helpful!

[fairyb0ii]

There's something wrong with the village...

[yoursuicidalcupcake]

I just watched I saw the tv glow and I don't think y'all understand- I saw the tv glow.

Like actually, no movie has touched me like this. I don't have any idea how to describe what I'm feeling. I'm destroyed rn / pos

[unwillingpuckbunny]

thought this was important to share to raise awareness for more sexualities under the bi umberella

from,

a person under the bi umbrella who couldn't work out their sexuality bc of bi-erasure and a lack of adequate education

[wolfythewitch]

If I drew ford the same way I drew Stan can I still use the term butch to describe her