Jennifer Baumgardner Quotes

• What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person him- or herself. If I'm dating a man, I'm straight. If I'm dating a woman, I'm a lesbian. But sexuality is not who you sleep with, it's who you are. It doesn't change according to who is standing next to you.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Sleep, Bisexual, Men

  Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Art, Media, Feminist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We're the feminists in my life - and we are also mothers and daughters and hot and neurotic and existing on wine and coffee and disappointed and brave.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Mother, Daughter, Coffee

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Reality, Perception, Intimidating

  Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.269, Macmillan

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• The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Fate, Bisexual, Names

  Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.63, Macmillan

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