Pansexual y bisexual

Awesome question. I consider about it all the time.

Here’s my story:

I identify very strongly as bi, though for a few years I also used to identify as pan along with it. Throughout those years, I went through a long process with both those words, at the end of which I dropped “pansexual” and stuck only with “bisexual”.

I’ve identified as bi since I was When I first encountered the word “pansexual” (age 22), I was very pleased with the way it sought to subvert gender binaries and to build more space for people of multiple genders and sexes. I was also really happy to use a synonyms that would distance me from the mainstream American/Western bisexual person movement(s) with its assimilationism, cissexism, “both sexes” bullshit. I was certain that pansexuality was inherently more subversive, more queer, and generally better than bisexuality.

And yet I never gave up on bisexuality as an identity. I felt as if it remained myword, but for some period I felt very apologetic about it, even to myself. The first thing that created a ‘crack’ in this way of idea was this announce in Bi Furious