Expanding the Rainbow: Exploring the Relationships of Bi+, Polyamorous, Kinky, Ace, Intersex, and Trans People (Teaching Gender Series)

"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"-- Provided by publisher. Contents 8 Foreword • R. F. Plante 11 Preface 13 Acknowledgements 14 Introduction • Brandy L. Simula, Andrea Miller and J. E. Sumerau 16 Part 1: Bi+ and Plurisexual Relationships 35 1. “By Definition They’re Not the Same Thing”: Analyzing Methods of Meaning Making for Pansexual Individuals • Ashley Green 36 2. You Cared before You Knew: Navigating Bi+ Familial Relationships • Nik Lampe 47 3. Sibling Relationships and the Bi+ Coming out Process • Lain A. B. Mathers 59 4. Autoethnographic Insights on Media Representations of Bi Narratives • Brittany M. Harder 71 Part 2: Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships 81 5. Polyamory and a Queer Orientation to the World • Mimi Schippers 82 6. Monogamy vs. Polyamory: Negotiating Gender Hierarchy • Michelle Wolkomir 92 7. Margins of Identity: Queer Polyamorous Women’s Navigation of Identity • Krista L. Benson 105 8. Race, Class, Gender, and Relationship Power in Queer Polyamory • Emily Pain 116 9. Relational Fluidity: Somewhere between Polyamory and Monogamy (Personal Reflection) • J. E. Sumerau and Alexandra “Xan” C. H. Nowakowski 130 Part 3: Kinky/BDSM Relationships 142 10. BDSM Relationships • Robin Bauer 143 11. Kink Work Online: The Diffuse Lives of Erotic Webcam Workers and Their Clients • Angela Jones 156 12. BDSM Disclosures and the Circle of Intimates: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Identity and Disclosure Audience and Response • Katherine Martinez 170 13. Finding Yourself in the Dark: On Submission, Healing, and Acceptance (Personal Reflection) • Mar Middlebrooks 186 Part 4: Asexual Relationships 194 14. Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality • Tiina Vares 195 15. At the Intersection of Polyamory and Asexuality • Daniel Copulsky 205 16. Asexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation • C. J. Chasin 215 17. Queering the Nuclear Family: Navigating Familial Living as an Asexual (Personal Reflection) • Katie Linder 226 Part 5: Intersex Relationships 233 18. Understanding Intersex Relationship Issues • Cary Gabriel Costello 234 19. Not Going to the Chapel? Intersex Youth and an Exploration of Marriage Desires and Expectations • Georgiann Davis and Jonathan Jimenez 249 20. Shifting Medical Paradigms: The Evolution of Relationships between Intersex Individuals and Doctors • Sarah S. Topp 267 Part 6: Transgender Relationships 280 21. Trans Relationships and the Trans Partnership Narrative • Carey Jean Sojka 281 22. “I Try Not to Push It Too Far”: Trans/Nonbinary Individuals Negotiating Race and Gender in Intimate Relationships • alithia zamantakis 293 23. Generational Gaps or Othering the Other? Tension between Binary and Non-Binary Trans People • stef m. shuster 308 24. Research on Gender Identity & Youth: Incorporating Intersectionality • Griffin Lacy 321 25. Symbiotic Love: On Dating, Sex, and Interpersonal Relationships between Transgender People (Personal Reflection) • Shalen Lowell 333 For Use in the Classroom: Notes on Teaching outside the Rainbow • Andrea Miller 344 Notes on Contributors 351