jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

Our community has grown more atomised, in response to the recognition of the wide spectrum of our struggles. When we were the target of a full-scale genocide, which affected the majority of LGBT+ people, our alliance was at its most natural, because what we were fighting and how we were fighting it was the same.

Today, the difference in struggles between trans, nonbinary, lesbian, gay, bi (and more) people are more apparent because we don't have such an easily identifiable common enemy.

LGBT+ communities have always been a constantly changing and rapidly evolving, multi-headed beast, because we have to respond to constantly changing modes of oppression.

To a great extent, I think that, because of institutions such as Pride, the current community is living in the shadow of a very different time. Not only are the conditions of LGBT+ people different from what they were in the 70's and 80's, most of these people aren't part of our community anymore, because they were murdered.

As the Independent reported, "In several countries, including the UK, the US and Canada, studies have shown that bi women are the most vulnerable to rape, sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking."

They are more at risk than homosexual women, and in the UK "studies have found that bisexual women are five times more likely than heterosexual women to be abused by a partner."

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bisexual-lgbt-pride-sexual-assault-violence-invisible-minority-survivors-a8435226.html

@garfiald yeah. And then only learning about demisexuality as a thing the last couple months certainly helped me figure out why it took so long to figure it out.

Basically we need to teach a wider spectrum of sexualities than gay and straight to people.

@garfiald I think my problem with not feeling like a part of the community was that it took me way too long to realize I was bi.

Like, I was married and pregnant before the light clicked. So now I just feel like I’m some weird random lgbt+ adjacent person.

I've heard bisexual people refer to the problem of "bi erasure" as just being the problem of a specific subgroup of LGBT+ people not feeling included in the community. It's not, and I am repeatedly surprised by the extent to which some bisexual people can minimise the dangers they face -- more to the point, that bisexual women face -- as a specific group.

Bisexual people make up the majority of LGBT+ people.

@danishcookies just kidding, both our countries are equally unvalid

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lol I just saw a trailer on Hulu for a Ruth bader Ginsburg biopic where she tackles sex based oppression. so uh get ready for the libs to be euphoric

i know ive been doing a lot of portia posting lately but just look at this perfect goofy baby

@sophia There is another possibility……...

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