{"id":6988,"date":"2018-02-04T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T14:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/170495607403"},"modified":"2018-02-04T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T14:59:52","slug":"bisofcoloursomething-i-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2018\/02\/bisofcoloursomething-i-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"bisofcolour:\nSomething I saw&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/709b262648bb40d1af86f8385be4e737\/tumblr_p3msb4hI1M1ry6gl5o1_500.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bisofcolour.tumblr.com\/post\/170495597968\/something-i-saw\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" >bisofcolour<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Something I saw on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/miles-thebi.tumblr.com\/\" >http:\/\/miles-thebi.tumblr.com<\/a>\u00a0which really struck a cord, and we would really want to adopt it too.<\/p>\n<p>Bi\u2019s of Colour will not engage in any discussion or arguments over bisexuality vs pansexuality. \u00a0This whole argument was born of straight, lesbian and gay people giving wrong definitions of what makes a person bi or pan. \u00a0Until the 19th Century, Gay meant Happy, and Lesbian was someone of any gender who came from the Greek Island of Lesbos. \u00a0At that time bisexual also meant Intersex. \u00a0The definition of all three of these terms have changed drastically over the past 100+ years. \u00a0Bisexuals and Pansexuals have enough to deal with, without getting into verbal fights over which term is more suitable.<\/p>\n<p>The term Bisexual has a long history, but if you want to call yourself Pansexual, do it! \u00a0Nobody gets to define your sexual orientation for you. \u00a0You can be Transgender and Bisexual, Intersex and Pansexual, Cisgender and Bisexual, Asexual and Pansexual, and much, much more!<\/p>\n<p>We at Bi\u2019s of Colour hope you will be happy in your sexual orientation, however you define it. \u00a0Don\u2019t let monosexuals tear us apart!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bisofcolour:<br \/>\nSomething I saw on\u00a0http:\/\/miles-thebi.tumblr.com\u00a0which really struck a cord, and we would really want to adopt it too.<br \/>\nBi\u2019s of Colour will not engage in any discussion or arguments over bisexuality vs pansexuality. \u00a0This whole argument was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}