“It's not Pans, It's People”: Student and Teacher Perspectives on Bisexuality and Pansexuality

Lapointe, Alicia

doi:10.1080/15299716.2016.1196157

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“…Many of our participants identified with multiple identity terms. As young people increasingly affiliate with alternative non-binary identities such as pansexual (Lapointe, 2017), these are rapidly becoming an important area for future researchers to specifically focus on when exploring identity and relationships.…”

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Misrecognition and managing marginalisation: Bisexual people’s experiences of bisexuality and relationships

Hayfield

Campbell

Reed

2018

Psychology & Sexuality

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Acknowledgements:We would particularly like to thank the bisexual participants who so willingly gave their time to talk to us about their identities and relationships. This research was conducted in collaboration with the community group BiVisible Bristol and the charity OnePlusOne (http://www.oneplusone.space). It was supported by a University of the West of England (UWE) research grant (UHSS0072). The authors would like to acknowledge their appreciation of the support of these organisations. We are also grateful for the insightful comments offered by the three anonymous reviewers on an earlier version of this manuscript.2 Please note that this is the Accepted Manuscript (the final version that we worked on, prior to it being accepted for publication). The final version can be found at the following link: https://doi. AbstractMany negative portrayals of bisexuality within Western culture relate to relationships, yet only a small body of research has explored bisexual people's experiences of their bisexual identity within their partner relationships, particularly within the wider cultural context of binegativity. Twenty qualitative interviews were conducted with bisexual men, women, trans, and genderqueer/non-binary people in relationships. Participants were based in the United Kingdom and ranged from eighteen to forty years old. We conducted a thematic analysis of the data and identified two key themes: The case of the disappearing bisexual: Invisible identities and unintelligible bisexual relationships and That's not my bisexuality and not my bisexual relationship: Defending self, relationships, and partners against bisexual negativity.In the first theme we report how bisexual identity was understood by participants as largely invisible, particularly when they were in relationships, and discuss how the notion of a "bisexual relationship" was seemingly unintelligible. In the second theme, we discuss how participants engaged in identity and relationship work to defend themselves and their partners against binegativity in order to protect their bisexual identity, their partners, and their relationships. These results contribute novel findings to our understandings of how bisexual people experience and manage their identities and relationships within the wider context of binegativity. We conclude with a discussion of the importance and implications of our findings.3

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“…Indeed, in recent years, the number of people identifying as bisexual or under the "bisexual umbrella" 5 (e.g. using identity labels describing attraction to more than one gender) is increasing (Lapointe, 2017). Therefore, bisexual invisibility cannot be ascribed to a lack of bisexual people (Yoshino, 2000).…”

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Misrecognition and managing marginalisation: Bisexual people’s experiences of bisexuality and relationships

Hayfield

Campbell

Reed

2018

Psychology & Sexuality

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“…It has been argued that there is little consensus on a singular definition of the term pansexual (or panromantic) (Belous & Bauman, 2017). This argument arises on the basis that pansexual (and panromantic) people may conceptualize and construct their identities in multiple and complex ways (Lapointe, 2017). In some instances, pansexual (and panromantic) have been conflated with bisexual (and biromantic) identities (Galupo et al, 2015).…”

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“…Academics and activists (many of whom are bisexual) have argued that definitions of bisexuality should not be stripped down to meaning only two (see discussion with Robyn Ochs and Heron Greenesmith in Doyle, 2019;Hayfield, 2020). Contemporary definitions of bisexuality have evolved beyond the binary and bisexual communities have been inclusive of -and included -trans and non-binary people for many years (Dingle, 2016;Doyle, 2019;Flanders et al, 2017;Hayfield, 2020;Lapointe, 2017). Nonetheless, pansexuality has been perceived as more explicitly inclusive of a gender spectrum and therefore as more explicitly inclusive of trans and non-binary identities (Belous & Bauman, 2017;Dingle, 2017).…”

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“…Bisexuality was portrayed as perpetuating binary understandings of gender: "In my opinion, bi means both men and women and pan means all genders" (P58, 38, man/trans/non-binary, U.K., panromantic). In this sense, pansexuality was portrayed as being different from bisexuality through positioning bisexual as meaning attraction exclusively to 'men' and 'women' in contrast with pansexuality which more inclusively extended to all genders, including trans identities (Lapointe, 2017).…”

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It’s Like Bisexuality, but It Isn’t: Pansexual and Panromantic People’s Understandings of Their Identities and Experiences of Becoming Educated about Gender and Sexuality

Hayfield

Křížová

2021

Journal of Bisexuality

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In this paper, we report on our survey research which sought to explore how pansexual and panromantic people experience and understand their identities. Eighty participants, mainly in the U.K., were recruited via social media and internet forums. Thematic analysis resulted in the development of two key themes. In The label depends on the context: It's like bisexuality, but it isn't, we report the blurred lines between pansexual and bisexual identities and discuss how, despite often having a preference for pansexual and panromantic, these participants nonetheless engaged in strategic use of both bi and pan terms. In the second theme entitled Educated and enlightened pansexuals we report how participants portrayed pansexual and panromantic identities as requiring an advanced understanding of gender and sexuality. This meant that those who engaged in these terms were represented as educated and enlightened. In the subtheme An internet education: Tumblr-ing into pan identities and communities, we discuss how educational resources and inclusive spaces were largely understood to exist only online. In this research, participants understood pansexual and panromantic identities to be related to, but distinct from, other identities (including bisexuality) and presented their identities as entailing distinctive experiences, including of prejudice and discrimination. We discuss the contribution and implications of our findings. The increasing interest in plurisexual and pansexual identitiesThe term plurisexual has been used to collectively refer to a range of identities broadly defined by attraction to more than one gender; including bisexuality, pansexuality, omnisexuality, and queer, among others (Brown

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Pansexuality

Flanders

2023

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education

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“It's not Pans, It's People”: Student and Teacher Perspectives on Bisexuality and Pansexuality

Cited by 33 publications

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Misrecognition and managing marginalisation: Bisexual people’s experiences of bisexuality and relationships

Misrecognition and managing marginalisation: Bisexual people’s experiences of bisexuality and relationships

It’s Like Bisexuality, but It Isn’t: Pansexual and Panromantic People’s Understandings of Their Identities and Experiences of Becoming Educated about Gender and Sexuality

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