The following essay seems in Getting Bi: sounds of Bisexuals throughout the world, second Edition, ed. Robyn Ochs and Sarah E. Rowley. Bisexual Site Center, 2009 pp. 255 257.

In the last many years, We have put together an annotated bibliography of publications with bisexual content: publications in regards to the topic of bisexuality and publications with bi characters. Now it is super easy to inform in case a non fiction guide is approximately bisexuality; it is frequently called Bisexual Lives, or Bisexual Politics, or something that way like that. Nonetheless it’s a whole lot harder to inform if your work of fiction is really a “bisexual guide.”

Like in real world, it could be hard to see whether somebody is “really” bisexual. How will you determine how to “read” someone? If your character that is female with a guy at the start of a novel, falls in deep love with an other woman, breaks up with all the man as well as the book’s summary is in love with the lady, is she “really” a bisexual, or perhaps is she “really” a lesbian? Is it whole tale a bisexual or perhaps a lesbian being released narrative? If she never labels herself as lesbian or bisexual, and in case the writer will not designate her a label, the reader will clearly be creating a subjective interpretation, projecting her very own presumptions and definitions on the character.

You will need to take into account that the author’s intent and your readers’ interpretations are not at all times exactly the same.

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