British Bisexuality: A Snapshot of Bisexual Representations and Identities in the United Kingdom

Moving out of the Shadows: Accomplishing Bisexual Motherhood

“…The very diversity of bisexual definition possibilities may perhaps have helped to obscure the visibility of bisexual ACCOMPLISHING BISEXUAL MOTHERHOOD 7 identity, since the term bisexual can define adults who are sexually attracted to and/or have had sexual experiences with males, females, and/or gender diverse persons as reported in UK survey research (Barker, Bowes-Catton, Iantaffi, Cassidy & Brewer, 2008;Barker, Yockney, Richards, Jones, Bowes-Catton & Plowman, 2012). Further, as seen in research based in the US, individuals or communities may use other labels instead of, or as well as, bisexual to refer to their sexual identity, such as the terms pansexual, omnisexual, queer, sexually fluid, sexually flexible, or gay (Callis, 2014;Galupo, Davis, Grynkiewicz, & R. C. Mitchell, 2014).…”

“…In their call to expand research on bisexual parenting, Ross and Dobinson (2013) conducted a systematic literature review to find only seven papers reporting any considerations specific to bisexual parents. Specific bisexual challenges elucidated included: heterosexual passing (identified in various qualitative studies and first person accounts in the U.S. ACCOMPLISHING BISEXUAL MOTHERHOOD 9 (Arden, 1996) and Australia (Pallotta-Chiarolli, 2010 a&b)); feelings of invisibility (seen in a Canadian survey and small interview study of Canadian bisexual women in pregnancy and early motherhood Ross, Siegel, Dobinson, Epstein, & Steele, 2012); or studies detailing double discrimination experienced from both heterosexual and lesbian/gay social worlds (a qualitative study of bisexual women married to men in the U.S. (Moss, 2012) and a questionnaire survey and group interview study of attendees at the U.K. Bisexual Conference (Barker, Bowes-Catton, Iantaffi, Cassidy, & Brewer, 2008)). Watson (2014) interviewed a sex and gender diverse group of 47 Australians about their gender and sexual self-identification and their experiences related to these self-identifications.…”

Guidelines for Researching and Writing About Bisexuality

“…In addition to this we have been involved in our own research studies on bisexuality (e.g. Barker, Bowes-Catton, Iantaffi, Cassidy, & Brewer, 2008; Bowes-Catton, Jones, 2010;Jones, 2011). We also moderate online lists and discussion groups where researchers frequently post calls for participants for their research, or ask questions about how they should best go about studying aspects of bisexuality (e.g.…”

Innovative sampling and participant recruitment in sexuality research

“…The then recent literature was still documenting the prevalence of biphobia and stigma toward bisexuals (e.g., Barker et al, 2008), and not reflecting the liberalization of attitudes toward homosexuality found in our own and others' research (Anderson, 2009;Keleher & Smith, 2012;McCormack, 2012). We desired to investigate whether this was the result of problematic participant recruitment or an effect of the differences between being gay and bisexual.…”