Full Description
Expanding the Rainbow is the first comprehensive collection of research on the relationships of people who identify as bi+, poly, kinky, asexual, intersex, and/or trans that is written to be accessible to an undergraduate audience. The volume highlights a diverse range of identities, relationship structures, and understandings of bodies, sexualities, and interpersonal relationships. Contributions to the volume include original empirical research, personal narratives and reflections, and theoretical pieces that center the experiences of members of these communities, as well as teaching resources. Collectively, the chapters present a diverse, nuanced, and empirically rich picture of the variety of relationships and identities that individuals are creating in the twenty-first century.
Contents
Foreword
R. F. Plante
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Brandy L. Simula, Andrea Miller and J. E. Sumerau
Part 1: Bi+ and Plurisexual Relationships
1. "By Definition They're Not the Same Thing": Analyzing Methods of Meaning Making for Pansexual Individuals
Ashley Green
2. You Cared before You Knew: Navigating Bi+ Familial Relationships
Nik Lampe
3. Sibling Relationships and the Bi+ Coming out Process
Lain A. B. Mathers
4. Autoethnographic Insights on Media Representations of Bi Narratives
Brittany M. Harder
Part 2: Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships
5. Polyamory and a Queer Orientation to the World
Mimi Schippers
6. Monogamy vs. Polyamory: Negotiating Gender Hierarchy
Michelle Wolkomir
7. Margins of Identity: Queer Polyamorous Women's Navigation of Identity
Krista L. Benson
8. Race, Class, Gender, and Relationship Power in Queer Polyamory
Emily Pain
9. Relational Fluidity: Somewhere between Polyamory and Monogamy (Personal Reflection)
J. E. Sumerau and Alexandra "Xan" C. H. Nowakowski
Part 3: Kinky/BDSM Relationships
10. BDSM Relationships
Robin Bauer
11. Kink Work Online: The Diffuse Lives of Erotic Webcam Workers and Their Clients
Angela Jones
12. BDSM Disclosures and the Circle of Intimates: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Identity and Disclosure Audience and Response
Katherine Martinez
13. Finding Yourself in the Dark: On Submission, Healing, and Acceptance (Personal Reflection)
Mar Middlebrooks
Part 4: Asexual Relationships
14. Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality
Tiina Vares
15. At the Intersection of Polyamory and Asexuality
Daniel Copulsky
16. Asexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation
C. J. Chasin
17. Queering the Nuclear Family: Navigating Familial Living as an Asexual (Personal Reflection)
Katie Linder
Part 5: Intersex Relationships
18. Understanding Intersex Relationship Issues
Cary Gabriel Costello
19. Not Going to the Chapel? Intersex Youth and an Exploration of Marriage Desires and Expectations
Georgiann Davis and Jonathan Jimenez
20. Shifting Medical Paradigms: The Evolution of Relationships between Intersex Individuals and Doctors
Sarah S. Topp
Part 6: Transgender Relationships
21. Trans Relationships and the Trans Partnership Narrative
Carey Jean Sojka
22. "I Try Not to Push It Too Far": Trans/Nonbinary Individuals Negotiating Race and Gender in Intimate Relationships
alithia zamantakis
23. Generational Gaps or Othering the Other? Tension between Binary and Non-Binary Trans People
stef m. shuster
24. Research on Gender Identity & Youth: Incorporating Intersectionality
Griffin Lacy
25. Symbiotic Love: On Dating, Sex, and Interpersonal Relationships between Transgender People (Personal Reflection)
Shalen Lowell
For Use in the Classroom: Notes on Teaching outside the Rainbow
Andrea Miller
Notes on Contributors
