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🌈 A physical archive of bisexual, pansexual, and fluid media and history. Providing online programs and events for the queer community. Browse our shelves of m-spec books, zines, podcasts, and more at bipanlibrary.com.

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New early-access booklist! Bisexual & m-spec nonfiction about parenthood. https://www.patreon.com/posts/booklist-m-spec-85837111

06.08.2023 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Bi, Pan, & Fluid Nonfiction| The Bi Pan Library An extensive chronological library of nonfiction focused on bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, omnisexual, sexually fluid, & other m-spec issues and topics.

Learn more about #bisexual and #pansexual history with our near-comprehensive timeline of m-spec nonfiction: https://bipanlibrary.com/bi-pan-mspec-nonfiction/

31.07.2023 18:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pansexuality was not a new concept in the 1980s! You can find similar references of pansexuality as a personal and political identity as far back as the 1960s, and attraction beyond and regardless of gender has (of course) always existed. #panpride

31.07.2023 18:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Headline: Lust for You Name It "If I cannot have too many truffles, I will do without truffles," Colette once declared, illustrating what might have served as her motto: "All things in excess." The doted-on little girl grew up to be a jealous lover, a pitifully dependent wife and then an indomitable woman, and in time one of France's most loved and finest writers. Colette (1873-1954) possessed pansexual appetites, failing to discriminate between male and female, old and young. just so long as the flesh moved her. She suffered from sloth and barely restrained gluttony-blowing up to blimp proportions periodically. Although there are, in COLETTE: A Passion for Life, ample illustrations of her family, her three husbands, her cats and dogs, her myriad famous writer and artist friends, it is startling how often she appears alone. Exhibitionist, poseur and ultimately outsider, she dominates the 450-odd photographs with hardly a rival-even when her back is turned.

Headline: Lust for You Name It "If I cannot have too many truffles, I will do without truffles," Colette once declared, illustrating what might have served as her motto: "All things in excess." The doted-on little girl grew up to be a jealous lover, a pitifully dependent wife and then an indomitable woman, and in time one of France's most loved and finest writers. Colette (1873-1954) possessed pansexual appetites, failing to discriminate between male and female, old and young. just so long as the flesh moved her. She suffered from sloth and barely restrained gluttony-blowing up to blimp proportions periodically. Although there are, in COLETTE: A Passion for Life, ample illustrations of her family, her three husbands, her cats and dogs, her myriad famous writer and artist friends, it is startling how often she appears alone. Exhibitionist, poseur and ultimately outsider, she dominates the 450-odd photographs with hardly a rival-even when her back is turned.

Black and white image of Colette performing "La Chatte Amoureuse," a 1912 mime sketch. Colette perches behind a chair, wearing a black cat costume with whiskers and stripes painted on her face.

Black and white image of Colette performing "La Chatte Amoureuse," a 1912 mime sketch. Colette perches behind a chair, wearing a black cat costume with whiskers and stripes painted on her face.

This 1986 NYT review referred to Colette's "pansexual appetites". We can't know what terms Colette would use today, but this clip is a great example of how the term #pansexual was used by the media before internet access was commonplace (yes, pansexuality predates Tumblr)

31.07.2023 18:29 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
A line of tall black bookshelves filled with colorful books and green houseplants. A window next to the shelves is draped with an 8-stripe Gilbert Baker pride flag.

A line of tall black bookshelves filled with colorful books and green houseplants. A window next to the shelves is draped with an 8-stripe Gilbert Baker pride flag.

All the books in this photo are bi, pan, & queer — and they're just a fraction of the 800+ books we've collected since 2015! With a one-time donation or monthly pledge, you can help the Bi Pan Library continue preserving queer history. Learn more: https://bipanlibrary.com/support/

31.07.2023 18:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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