Deconstructing Biphobia

Abstract

The authors deconstructs and analyzes ‘biphobia,’ understood as the structural oppression bisexual persons experience. The author's account is based on the belief that a traditional emphasis on ‘discrimination,’ rather than ‘oppression,’ when referring to nonheterosexual sexual orientations, has failed to shine light on some core problems related to the asymmetric relations between privileged and non-privileged groups. To introduce the concept of oppression the author takes as a point of departure the five faces of oppression described by Iris Marion Young in her book Justice and the Politics of Difference. To these faces the author adds three more faces he found meaningful in relation to the points presented in this text. To illustrate the theories presented, the author takes as a point of departure his experiences as activist in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) networks. This text is to be understood within the tradition of critical theory and postmodernism. Because it has a postpositivist ontology and epistemology, it takes distance from essentialized assumptions about sexualities, sexual orientations, sexes, genders and gender identities.

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