Introduction

According to the Ecology Global Network there are approximately 360,000 births per day in this world. When someone is born in a hospital one of the first things the doctors do is assign the child a sex based off of the biological parts present. From there the rest of the world takes over in making assumptions about the child’s gender based off of the assigned sex. As Sam Killerman said in The Social Justice Advocate’s Handbook: A Guide to Gender, “Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.” Gender is a socially constructed idea and often in this society it is assumed that one’s gender matches their assigned sex, or it is assumed that both of the previous match up with the individual’s gender expression. From there people also assume that one’s sexual or romantic orientations fit into neat normative boxes that coincide with gender expression and identity, and sex. In actuality though, these assumptions just are not reliable. With 360,000 births a day there will be some babies that are not born just male or female, there will be some babies that don’t identify as men or women, and there will be some babies that are not attracted to the opposite sex. The goal of this blog is to define and discuss a few of the many identities and orientations that people possess and to show that as a society we simplify topics we should not. There is beauty in diversity, so let’s shine a light upon it.


http://www.ecology.com/birth-death-rates/

Monday, April 13, 2015

Bisexuality







Bisexuality is an umbrella term used to describe individuals who are sexually attracted to more than one gender. 
Bisexuality itself is attraction of one individual to 2 genders, the same gender as them and the opposite. 






Pan-sexual Pride Flag
2 of the main terms used under the bisexuality 
umbrella are Pan-sexuality and Poly-sexuality. 
Pan which means all, is the attraction to all genders, this includes cis, trans*, and non-binary individuals. 
Poly meaning many is the attraction of an individual to many genders. This person may be attracted to more than just 2 genders but may not be attracted to all such is the case with pan-sexuality. 
Poly-sexual Pride Flag




Bisexuality as well as the other poly-sexual identities often get erased when a person enters into a relationship with a person or persons based on that person(s) gender. This is known as Bisexual Erasure and that's something that Lyndsey Fought address strongly in her article Bisexual Erasure: What Is It and How To Avoid It


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