There are chapters on the different experiences and situations of bisexual men and women, dissecting the particular stereotypes and myths surrounding each. Bi: Notes for a Bi Revolution is full of resources for bisexual people to use to explore their identities and begin to situate themselves in the LGBT movement and a wider historical context, as well as begin to look to the future (but more on that later). The book comes from a personal place, by Eisner’s own admission, and has entailed the compilation of years’ worth of resources and activism, but the scope is much wider than Eisner’s own experience. She makes it look easy, and navigates sensitive, nuanced spaces with absolute confidence. At a time when people complain about and make fun of the perceived way we have to tiptoe around this and that and put disclaimers everywhere, Eisner dives into a topic which by its very nature resists simple statements of fact and easy description, and just gets on with it. The writing also deserves praise for being so effortlessly inclusive. It’s a really good 101-style book (101 being the accepted term in such circles for an introductory resource, based on the American university module naming system as far as I can tell), which manages to take a big, messy, blurry subject and condense it down into a manageable size. The book therefore contains a good amount of potted definitions and explanations of jargon and terminology, all clear and succinct. (It turns out that Serano’s post links a post by Shiri Eisner, actually, which is an excerpt from the book I’m talking about here.) If you too haven’t read much dedicated to bisexuality, then this is a pretty good place to start.Įisner is aware that she’s in relatively untrodden territory here, and as a result a significant proportion of her target audience may not be very familiar with reading this sort of dense social theory. And besides these great blog posts, I’d never read anything really exploring bisexuality. I was a little bit intimidated and a little bit excited, as I hadn’t given myself over to reading much LGBT theory for a long time, since I slunk out of the Shakesville blog, with the exception of some of Julia Serano‘s excellent work. This was recommended to me by a friend, possibly on CSD (though I could easily be remembering wrong).
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