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September being bisexual awareness month and suicide prevention month is actually really fitting because bisexuals (especially bisexual women) are at the highest risk of suicide.
45% of bisexual women and 35% of bisexual men have considered or attempted suicide. those are horrifying numbers. now consider that more than 54% of the community is bisexual, and take into account that 40% of LGBT POC and about half of all transgender people are bisexual, and among those communities the risk of suicide is even higher.
suicide prevention is a bisexual issue. this is undeniable. you cannot claim to care about suicide prevention, especially among LGBT people, while denying the existence of biphobia and its impact both outside the LGBT community AND inside it.
Thoughts on coming out
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What I thought would happen, or, what happened every other damned time I tried to tell you:
Sit in the pit of my stomach
Get stuck in the tunnel of my throat
Lodge in the chasm of my mouth
Prickle and weigh on my tongue
Press against the blockade of my teeth
And finally,
Mangled and aching,
Shredded and bleeding,
Pummeled and pulsing,
Emerge
Changed
On my lips
Like cracked skin and warm breath
As words.
The wrong fucking words.
What actually happened:
I said it, downplayed it.
You dismissed me, and kissed me.
You still want me. You don't know me.
The response too easy; now I'm waiting for it to sink in.
How the hell do I show it, own it, glow with it
When I don't feel any
Pride.
You didn't listen.
/
AKB 2019
Thoughts on coming out
/
What I thought would happen, or, what happened every other damned time I tried to tell you:
Sit in the pit of my stomach
Get stuck in the tunnel of my throat
Lodge in the chasm of my mouth
Prickle and weigh on my tongue
Press against the blockade of my teeth
And finally,
Mangled and aching,
Shredded and bleeding,
Pummeled and pulsing,
Emerge
Changed
On my lips
Like cracked skin and warm breath
As words.
The wrong fucking words.
What actually happened:
I said it, downplayed it.
You dismissed me, and kissed me.
You still want me. You don't know me.
The response too easy; now I'm waiting for it to sink in.
How the hell do I show it, own it, glow with it
When I don't feel any
Pride.
You didn't listen.
/
AKB 2019