Community Recommendations for Fostering Bipositivity with Plurisexual Women

In this project, we are analyzing the interview responses of 31 plurisexual women across the U.S. regarding their perspectives on how bipositivity could be better fostered among various relational (e.g., friends, partners, family) and institutional (e.g., schools, community organizations) contexts. Community members recommended actions to take to foster bipositivity, as well as actions to avoid, depending on positionalities. We are working on disseminating our findings in two ways: (1) writing up a manuscript for publication in an academic journal and (2) creating a zine for community members to access easily and free of cost.

​This work was supported, in part, by the American Psychological Foundation Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Grant and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Maude Hammond Fling Fellowship Award.

Creating and Validating a Quantitative Measure of Bipositivity

In this project, we are creating and validating a quantitative measure of bipositivity. To draft our measure items, we are leveraging the qualitative data Dr. Cipriano and other researchers have previously collected regarding bipositive experiences and cognitions. Then, we will be recruiting a new sample of plurisexual people across the U.S. to (1) take a survey including the initial draft of the measure and other related measures we will use to validate the new bipositivity scale and (2) participate in an interview sharing their thoughts about the measure draft and what revisions might be helpful. We will revise our measure and test it again with another sample before publishing.

This work is supported, in part, by the Ball State University Joseph and Marcella Hollis Award.

U.S. Plurisexual Person Survey

We are recruiting a new sample of pluriexual people across the U.S. to participate in a mixed-method online survey exploring identity-based interpersonal experiences as well as others' responses to their disclosures of sexual violence victimization. In this project, we aim to capture the overlapping and distinct experiences of plurisexual people of various gender and racial identities.