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“Bisexuality has the potential to subvert the structure of the gender binary, since bisexuality is perceived as a type of desire that doesn't distinguish between people based on their genders.”

Book:Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

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“When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather than killing another human being, these cowboys gave the youth something positive: father figures, focus, and the ability to stand tall.”

Inspiration Role Models Horses City Life

Book:Ghetto Cowboy

Source: Ghetto Cowboy

“When it comes to monosexual identities, gender-based discrimination not only is encouraged but also constitutes the basis on which monosexual identities are created and withheld. In this way bisexuality exposes inconsistencies within the system”

Gender Bisexual Binary Bisexuality Gender Binary

Book:Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

Source: Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

“Trans folks are often expected to embrace a narrative that makes cis people comfortable--something simple and linear that upholds their binary understanding of gender transition.”

Gender Health Care Transgender Binary Transitioning Gender Binary Cisgender

Book:The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

Source: The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Life is full of electronic desires where one dream spliced with currents of wires Leading our footsteps to the online shore, we expect the waves to bring us some more of those binary tides to wash us away to the cyber beach for a lonesome day”

Addiction Digital Online Shore Digital Age Cyber Lonesome Binary Electronic Wires

Author:Munia Khan

“There are many things to question in this conflation of binaries: good/bad, with normal/abnormal, and natural/unnatural. First off, can we really say that "normal" and "natural" things are somehow morally better than those that are "abnormal" and "unnatural"? It's not normal to be a genius, a musical prodigy, or a great altruist, but we generally don't shun those people! And it's pretty unnatural to use smartphones and to fly around the world, yet people welcome the ability to do those things.”

Binary Nonbinary

Book:Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

Source: Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

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