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Visi(bi)lity: Bisexuality as Rebellion: Sexualizing Women’s Friendships

Sex and Sexuality post by Carrie Nelson on March 27, 2012 - 9:53am; tagged bisexual, bisexual visibility, bisexuality, female friendship, film, Heavenly Creatures, Jennifer's Body, sexual fluidity, Visi(bi)lity.

I have noticed that often such stories use sexual fluidity among young women to signify rebellion against hegemonic institutions. In stories ostensibly about conflict between women and their families and women and male lovers, hints of bisexuality are present as indications of the larger ways in which the women in question are opposing oppression.

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