Queer & Well x The Optimist Collective: Bi The Way with Julia Serano
Where: In-person, SF LGBT Center
When: August 17, 2023, 5:30-7 pm PT
About: Bi The Way: Discussion with Julia Serano. Three of the most pervasive bisexual stereotypes are that we’re “hypersexual,” that Bi+ men are “really gay” and Bi+ women “really heterosexual,” and that we supposedly “infiltrate” both straight and gay/lesbian communities. In this discussion, Julia will show how all of these stereotypes are interconnected and draw upon our unconscious presumptions about “contamination” and “purity.”
Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, performer, biologist, and activist. She is the author of five books, including Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, and her latest, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back. Julia’s other writings have appeared in over twenty anthologies, and in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, TIME, Salon, The Daily Beast, AlterNet, Out, and Ms. For more about her various endeavors: juliaserano.com