Bi Progress
Most of the moving and shaking I did in the early 1990s was bi activism, but it's something I hardly think about these days. Part of the reason is that I've fallen quite low on the Kinsey scale, even though I definitely feel more at home in queer circles than Straightsville. But another big reason is just how bi-friendly the world I live in is, ( Read more... )
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I don't know you, but...
I think queer was whitewashed precisely to take its radical possibility from it. At the same time, I would argue that "identity politics" is enormously problematic... I think queer was meant not to be collective unity but unity in diversity and it has become that to some extent. In the early 90s, the genderqueer stuff that goes on now in Australia with drag kings, trannie cop activists (a hilarious comedy group of drag kings who use police drag to protest at anti-capitalist demonstrations) and more would simply not have been possible. I'm more in the poly/queer community than in the "women's" community so I don't know what sort of attitudes are going on there these days, but I do want to reserve an option for queer/pan/poly to be radical and in-your-face too.
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