Expanding the Rainbow

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