May 24 is a day of celebration and advocacy for people with pan identities and allies. Pan Visibility Day is about raising awareness, gaining an understanding and acknowledging the diversity of human sexuality.
What does it mean to be pansexual?
For people with pan identities, their sexuality may involve being attracted to people of all genders, or regardless of their gender.
Pansexual individuals are drawn to people based on connection, personality and chemistry, rather than gender alone.
By increasing visibility, we are encouraging pansexual individuals to live authentically in a space that is free from judgment and stigma.
For more information on how to celebrate this Pansexual Visibility Day, please go to the resource page of the Australian Centre for Sex, Health and Society website and search for Pansexual & Panromantic Visibility and Awareness Day.
Feifei Liao: Being a pansexual is really liberating.
My name is Feifei Liao. My pronouns are she and her and I identify as a pansexual. As a pansexual, you can be attracted to anyone with any gender. You are not attracted because you see this is a woman. You see that is a man. I'm actually just attracted to their authentic self, regardless about their gender.
I'm a very curious person, so I love exploring many different things. I love reading books, going hiking, and also making art. I don't feel words are enough to capture what I'm feeling, and one very important expression for me is through the storytelling in the form of all different art, such as dance.
Dance has been incredible to unlock both my physicality and also my psychological connection with my sexuality, my gender. I'm connected with the feeling itself rather than trying to put it into words. The vocabulary cannot capture that queerness.
In the journey of exploring my sexuality I watched so many films just trying to find someone who might be experiencing similar feelings to me. And unfortunately, there were not many pansexual characters in film, and especially not about multicultural queers. We still don't see a lot of pansexual characters on the media, but this is important. This is how we start to explore our sexuality.
Pan visibility is so important because in the beginning, I don't even understand what does pansexual mean. I think it's important that I can also share about pan sexuality what it looks like for me, and hopefully the visibility can encourage that many other people who might also experience the same feelings, that they can also feel confident to engage with our community members, can engage in a romantic relationship, and also they can be their whole self without feeling judged.
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Feifei Liao: Being a pansexual is really liberating.
My name is Feifei Liao. My pronouns are she and her and I identify as a pansexual. As a pansexual, you can be attracted to anyone with any gender. You are not attracted because you see this is a woman. You see that is a man. I'm actually just attracted to their authentic self, regardless about their gender.
I'm a very curious person, so I love exploring many different things. I love reading books, going hiking, and also making art. I don't feel words are enough to capture what I'm feeling, and one very important expression for me is through the storytelling in the form of all different art, such as dance.
Dance has been incredible to unlock both my physicality and also my psychological connection with my sexuality, my gender. I'm connected with the feeling itself rather than trying to put it into words. The vocabulary cannot capture that queerness.
In the journey of exploring my sexuality I watched so many films just trying to find someone who might be experiencing similar feelings to me. And unfortunately, there were not many pansexual characters in film, and especially not about multicultural queers. We still don't see a lot of pansexual characters on the media, but this is important. This is how we start to explore our sexuality.
Pan visibility is so important because in the beginning, I don't even understand what does pansexual mean. I think it's important that I can also share about pan sexuality what it looks like for me, and hopefully the visibility can encourage that many other people who might also experience the same feelings, that they can also feel confident to engage with our community members, can engage in a romantic relationship, and also they can be their whole self without feeling judged.
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