BI- AND PAN-SEXUAL QUEER ERASURE IN HETERONORMATIVE PRESENTING RELATIONSHIPS: TOO QUEER OR NOT QUEER ENOUGH?

BY: KATRINA PIETROMICA, COLE HANNAH, & MEGAN RUIZ-AUSTIN TOO QUEER OR NOT QUEER ENOUGH?

BISEXUAL? PANSEXUAL? QUEER? QUEERNESS IN THE LITERATURE

• Lesbian and gay literature • Bisexual literature • Trans literature • Erasure/invisibility literature INVISIBILITY OF BI- AND PAN-SEXUAL QUEERNESS IN THE LITERATURE PROPOSED RESEARCH DESIGN

CONTENT ANALYSIS ETHNOGRAPHIES AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIES SURVEYS CONTENT ANALYSIS

• Online forums • Scholarly articles • Books • Pop culture media ETHNOGRAPHY

• Observation of public spaces, including spaces seen as queer and spaces seen as heteronormative AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIES

• The authors would engage in reflection about our individual and collective lived experiences as queer women who have been, or are currently, in heteronormative-presenting relationships INTERVIEW

• Ideally, we would be able to create a sample of people who currently identify or have previously identified as pansexual, bisexual, or queer. • We would invite the telling of experiences of erasure in queer and heteronormative spaces. • We would also like to interview gay, lesbian, and heterosexual people about their interpretations of pansexuality/bisexuality and how that changes from being in queer dominant spaces to being in heterosexual dominant spaces. IMPLICATIONS

INCREASE BISEXUAL AND PANSEXUAL VISIBILITY HELP VALIDATE AND SUPPORT MIXED-ORIENTATION RELATIONSHIPS EXPAND ACADEMIC LITERATURE ON THIS SPECIFIC TYPE OF LITERATURE CONCLUSIONS

THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO ACADEMIC CONVERSATION CONCERNING THE QUEER ERASURE OF BISEXUAL AND PANSEXUAL PEOPLE IN HETERONORMATIVE-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIPS. THIS PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO NEW RESEARCH AND INCREASE ACCESSIBLE KNOWLEDGE THAT SUPPORTS, VALIDATES, AND RECOGNIZES A REAL PHENOMENA. REFERENCES

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• Persson, Tonje J. and James G. Pfaus. 2015. “Bisexuality and Mental Health: Future Research Directions.” Journal of Bisexuality15(1):82–98. • Yoshino, Kenji. 2000. “The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure.” Stanford Law Review52(2):353. THANK YOU:

• We all thank the review board for giving us the opportunity to engage with this subject and to present it to you here today. Thank you to everyone who took the time to come listen to all the research being presented today. • Katrina would like to specifically thank: Sarah Mawhirter, Ginna Husting, Rebecca Som Castellano, Amy Vecchione, Cole and Megan, and her super-rad family. • Megan would like to specifically thank Ginna Husting