ABSTRACT Bisexual erasure refers to the cultural de-legitimation of bisexuality as an intelligible sexual identity. There is little South African research that considers how this occurs. Generally bisexuality is “a silenced sexuality” both in popular and academic discourse. Research has not attended to (women’s) “self-aware bisexual identities”, tending to focus on men’s bisexual practices or other people’s perceptions of bisexuals. This article is intended as a starting point for further local research. Using an intersectionality approach, it looks at how race, class, space and gender intertwine with sexuality in ways that further compound marginalisation or provide avenues for resistance to dominant norms from an autobiographical perspective. The analysis shows how bisexual erasure occurs through acts of non-recognition and misrecognition, as well as instances of resistance.

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抵制擦除：南非的双性恋女性身份

摘要 双性恋抹除是指双性恋作为一种可理解的性身份的文化去合法化。很少有南非研究考虑这种情况是如何发生的。一般来说，双性恋在流行和学术话语中都是“一种沉默的性行为”。研究并未关注（女性）“自我意识的双性恋身份”，倾向于关注男性的双性恋行为或其他人对双性恋的看法。本文旨在作为进一步本地研究的起点。使用交叉性方法，它着眼于种族、阶级、空间和性别如何以进一步加剧边缘​​化的方式与性交织在一起，或从自传的角度为抵抗主导规范提供途径。分析显示了双性恋擦除是如何通过不承认和误认的行为发生的，