“The Future of Bisexuality”
A special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality
Edited by Jonathan Alexander, PhD, University of California, Irvine
This special double issue of The Journal of Bisexuality will explore the future of bisexuality”as an identity, as a community grouping, as a flash point for activism, as a critical way to interrogate and understand hetero- and mono-sexualities, and as an erotic inspiration for a variety of art projects. The editor, Dr. Jonathan Alexander, invites scholarly, personal, and experimental articles that explore what the future of bisexuality might be in shifting cultural, social, and political climates. Collectively, articles in this special double issue, whatever form they take, will trace how bisexuality has emerged as a marker of identity, community, and politics as a way of grounding a discussion of where bisexuality may take usâ”and the larger cultureâ”as an identity, a community, and a politics. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- How has the emergence of bisexuality in specific communities, in the mass media, in the public sphere affected larger discourses about sex and sexuality? What are some long-term ramifications of such effects?
- How do bisexuals and bisexual communities affect social spacesâ”and how might such spaces be changed by the presence of bi- and bi-friendly people?
- What particular effectsâ”social, ideological, politicalâ”are made possible by the increasing visibility of âBâ in the LGBT conglomerate? How has the LGBT community changedâ”and how might it continue to changeâ”because of a growing âBâ presence?
- How might increasing understandings of bisexual or bi-erotic relations in other cultures affect Western understandings and topologies of sex and sexuality?
- What might future sexualities look like, and how might contemporary bisexuality impact the construction of such identities?
- What does science fiction (or even science âfactâ about sex and sexuality) tell us about the future of bisexuality?
