Abstract
To gain insight into bisexual identities, agency, and politics, this chapter looks at the stories of eight bisexual women, four of whom identify as Indo-Trinidadian and the other four as mixed. The positionality of bisexual women can be used to clarify processes of identity formation, sexual subjectivity, and political participation, as bisexuals are still a largely invisible portion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and engage in a conscious negotiation of their insider-outsider positions. This chapter reveals the ways in which Indo-Trinidadian bisexual women actively negotiate the sociocultural minefield of femininity and respectability, engage in protests and sexual rights movements, and use their online presence and personal lives to forward their political activism.
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Ghisyawan, K.N. (2016). (Un)Settling the Politics of Identity and Sexuality Among Indo-Trinidadian Same-Sex Loving Women. In: Hosein, G.J., Outar, L. (eds) Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55937-1_10
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