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Jennifer Baumgardner Quotes

What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person him- or herself. If I'm dating a man, I'm straight. If I'm dating

What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person him- or herself. If I'm dating a man, I'm straight. If I'm dating a woman, I'm a lesbian. But sexuality is not who you sleep with, it's who you are. It doesn't change according to who is standing next to you.

Jennifer Baumgardner
Sleep, Bisexual, Men
Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

Jennifer Baumgardner
Art, Media, Feminist
Source: therumpus.net

The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We're the feminists in my life - and we are also mothers and daughters and hot and neurotic and existing on wine and coffee and disappointed and brave.

Jennifer Baumgardner
Mother, Daughter, Coffee
Source: therumpus.net

As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.

Jennifer Baumgardner
Reality, Perception, Intimidating
Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.269, Macmillan

The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

Jennifer Baumgardner
Fate, Bisexual, Names
Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.63, Macmillan

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