thing worth reading:

[lotesse]

annajcook at The Pursuit of Harpyness on "The Pressure of Being Expected to Know: Reflections on Sexual Fluidity"

Increasingly, I'm coming to see hetero/homo/bi as a problematic structure. This last semester got me historicizing sexual identity more fully than I had before - and I dunno about these categories. Trans* issues are exploding their usefulness, and they don't seem capable of doing justice to the complexity of lived experiences.

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[emei]

Thanks for linking - that's an interesting essay, and one that rings very true to me.

Agreed on hetero/homo/bi being a problematic structure - I've never felt I've fitted particularly well in it, personally, but it's only more recently that I've begun placing the problem within the structure rather than with me. And trying to apply them cross-history, cross-culture? Yeah, no.