Go the Way Your Blood Beats
On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire
by Michael Amherst
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Pub Date Feb 13 2018 | Archive Date Feb 28 2018
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Description
Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire.
A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire’s unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of whom remain obscure - the book demonstrates the universalism of desire, while at the same time the particularity of each individual act of desiring.
Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art - a mysterious, creative force, and one that remakes us in the act itself.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781910924716 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 138 |
Featured Reviews
Alex S, Reviewer
An essay (with autobiographical elements) on bisexuality, in which I don't think I disagreed with a single thing, but which also didn't really tell me anything new. Still, it could profitably be read by all the gatekeepers - activist or journalist, gay or straight - who persist in erasing what Amherst reminds us is by far the most common queer identity. I liked the way in which the various intellectually incoherent, not to mention bloody rude, attempts to claim bisexuals as 'really' gay or straight are expanded into a wider point about critics assuming bad faith more generally; Amherst also notes how even supposed radicals, by assuming that bi men are gays in denial and bi women are pandering, support profoundly reactionary norms. So yeah, maybe it didn't offer quite so many new avenues as Marjorie Garber's Vice Versa - which on the one hand is considerably longer, but on the other is 20 years old. But I do - terrifyingly - qualify as a 'bisexual elder' these days, so I'm not really the audience that needs this. As a small contribution to erasing binaries instead of bisexuals in the wider culture, it is to be welcomed.
(Netgalley ARC)
