There will be a winner! – But it won't be the bisexual character, doomed to affirm either Straightness™ or Gayness™ when the monogamous romance contest ends. Maybe that's why some of our guests' favourite media depictions of bisexuality are rooted in stories of failiure. 

But "in a world where success is counted in relationship to profit or relayed through heteronormative marriage, failure is not a bad place to start," Halberstam teaches us. To fail at oppressive and violent systems is also to loosen their grip, to open up different ways of thinking the world and existing in it – a prefigurative politics, a critique already filled with alternatives. Bisexuality doesn't make sense according to how the world currently works, but despite the world's hostility, it resists erasure and still refuses to fit – carving out an unclaimed place for something new. 

That being said, as one of our guests remarks: "It is beautiful philosophically, but practically – really annoying."

For more bisexual wisdom, listen to our conversation with Ada Černoša and Verity Ritchie, the icons behind verilybitchie and Kvartir.

Imeli bomo zmagovalca! - Vendar to ne bo biseksualni lik, obsojen na potrjevanje strejtovstva™ ali gejevstva™ ob razpletu tekmovanja v monogamni romantiki. Morda so ravno zato najljubši biseksualni liki naših gostij vpeti v zgodbe o porazih.

A, kot nas opominja Jack Halberstam: »V svetu, kjer uspehe merimo skozi prizmo dobička ali heteronormativne poroke, poraz sploh ni slabo izhodišče.« Biti poražen v zatiralskem ali nasilnem sistemu nosi tudi vse potenciale izgona iz takega sistema: odkrivanje prostora za drugačen obstoj; drugačne oblike misli in bivanja; kritiko, ki že vključuje alternative. Biseksualnost je kontradiktorna predpostavkam trenutnega sistema, kljub sovražnosti sveta pa se upira izbrisu in spotoma oblikuje prostor za nekaj povsem svojega.

Vse to se, kot pripomni ena naših gostij: »filozofsko sliši res lepo, v praksi pa je zelo nadležno.«

Za še več biseksualnih modrosti prisluhnite celotnemu pogovoru z Ado Černošo in Verity Ritchie, ikonama Youtube kanala verilybitchie in društva Kvartir. Pogovor poteka v angleškem jeziku.