What does the Roe V Wade overturn have to do with bisexuality? Is there a difference between bi and pansexual? Why does the queer community erase bisexual identities? Hear it all on this episode of the Queer Joy Podcast; where two relationship therapists explore what it looks like to see joy in queer relationships.
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Keely: It's such an individual exploration. And I think on that note too, as you said, with the compulsory heterosexuality, also really validating that attractions can change over time. And this is why identity and labels and all these pieces are becoming increasingly complicated because, okay, so someone says they're bisexual. And then two years later say they pansexual. When a person says they're non-binary and now they're trans, like all of those are valid, right? Every, every piece of how we identify is valid. Melisa: Well let's encourage the exploration, not just the destination. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Queer Relationships, Queer Joy. Keely: Hey Melisa. Melisa: Hey. Keely: How are you doing today? What's going on? Melisa: I'm good. I am like just reeling after having a wonderful summer weekend. It finally feels like summer's officially here, but now I'm really nervous cuz we're we're in heat wave land again. Keely: I know, we just didn't get a break. It was like right from like pouring rain, like rain all through Pride weekend to now, it was perfect this weekend. And now today it's like 97 or yeah. Melisa: I could, I could do without the nineties. Keely: Yeah. Or just stay it like 90 ish, but yeah, whenever it starts pushing a hundred, I'm like our little trees. I love our trees. Melisa: I did not move to Portland for this. Keely: Oh yeah. That too. Well, but if it was raining, we'd all be bitching too. So... Melisa: That's true. Keely: We can't have it. So I, what was, well, we'll get to our weekends probably in Queer Joy. We have been kind of hinting at talking about bisexuality specifically and bisexuality within the queer community and labels. We have these constant discussions about academia and words and how we identify and generationally different identifications. So. Yeah. But before we jump in that, I wanna get down to where my intro is just like super fast, but I will say , we'll do intros real quickly before we start talking about bisexuality. My name is Keely Helmick. Pronouns: they/ she. I am the owner of Connective Therapy Collective. I'm a white, mostly able bodied, currently acute injury. Solo poly. Non-binary femme. Queer and white. Melisa: And I'm Melisa DeSegiurant. I'm a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage or family therapist with Connective Therapy Collective. I'm bisexual, polyamorous, white, able bodied and gender fluid. I use she and they pronouns. Keel