Description
In writing and researching her book ‘Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality’, Dr Julia Shaw explored how people have defined and measured bisexuality, uncovered its surprisingly long and important history, and learned about some famous bisexual, pansexual, and plurisexual activists and scholars whom everyone should know. She turned to the animal kingdom, to look at behaviorally bisexual animals, and to try to understand whether there is ‘a bi gene’, and looked around the world, coming to understand the devastating reality of criminalization and human rights abuses that so many bisexual people around the world face today. At Humanists UK Convention 2024, Julia Shaw took our audience on a whistle-stop tour of what there is to know about the world’s largest sexual minority. Dr Julia Shaw is a psychological scientist at University College London, the author of multiple best-selling books, and a BBC science communicator. She is best known for her work in the areas of false memory, bisexuality, and criminal psychology. Released in the summer of 2022, Julia’s third book Bi: The hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality is an eye-opening, rigorous, and personal exploration of sexuality. According to the Guardian, ‘the book opens up conversations that might just lead to more visibility, understanding and empathy for all people, however they define themselves’. She co-hosted the BBC podcast Bi People and is the founder of the Bisexual Research Group.
Source
Language
English
Host
Humanists UK
Date
2024
Contributors
Dr. Julia Shaw
Run time
47:06
