title: Embracing the "and": between queer and bisexual theory at Brighton BiFest.
abstract: Questions of bi identities can be invisibilized and overlooked by queer theorizing and LGBT studies. This article explores the ways in which complex performances of bisexuality can simultaneously encompass and deconstructively critique bi identity in a manner that embraces the "and" between bi and queer, offering important insights into how bi is lived, contested, and reaffirmed. Drawing on the BiCon and BiFest events in the UK, we argue that both the materialities (and supposed fixities) of bi erasures and exclusions and the fluidities that trouble the heterosexual/homosexual divides offer key insights into the spatial and temporal fixing and unfixing of identities.
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Arts , University of Brighton , Brighton , UK.
authors.forename: Georgina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Voss
authors.forename: Kath
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Browne
authors.forename: Camel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D001727:Bisexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006693:Holidays; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017008:Negotiating; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013240:Stereotyping; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: activism; bisexual; festivals; policy; queer theory; space