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Giving thanks (the bisexual way)
Hello from The Hamptons! It is weird to write that — I don’t want to give you the impression that I am a “Hamptons person,” with all the baggage that that label entails. The truth is this is only my third time in The Hamptons ever; the first being a Valentine’s Day drive to Montauk…
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Bi husband energy
There is this term that you may be familiar with: “bi wife energy.” Ostensibly, it refers to straight men with bi female partners, men who are just so cool and queer savvy on account of their relationship. I think the implication is that bi women are too choosy to settle for some regular old loser…
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How it feels
So this is strange to admit: Over the past month and change, I have experienced more antisemitism than I ever have in my life. I don’t mean that in the sense that people might think. No one has physically assaulted me for being Jewish. I haven’t been called any slurs — not to my face,…
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The world is not your bubble
Last night, while texting with a friend, I made a casual reference to the sea of watermelon emojis that had overtaken my social media feed. My friend had no idea what I was talking about. It was almost inconceivable to me that this Free Palestine symbol that had become a standard feature of my online…
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Your shame helps no one
Last night I had the pleasure of attending an event featuring speakers from Standing Together/Omdim Beyachad, the largest grassroots Jewish-Arab solidarity network in Israel-Palestine. I won’t derail this newsletter with a full explanation of the scope of their work (though you can learn more about them here), but I bring them up because of something that…
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I regret to inform you that the bisexuals are still sick
Here’s some rare good news: I went to the doctor for my annual physical on Monday and I’m in good health. All my vitals good, all my labs good, despite the chaos and insanity of everything I’m actually… physically doing fine. Here’s some bad news: that puts me in the minority of bisexuals. Yes friends, another…
The B+ Squad
A website for the modern bisexual.
A website for the modern bisexual.
In the fall of 2023, I noticed something strange. After a flurry of interest of interest in bisexuality — packages devoted to Bisexual Awareness Week, article after article about how biphobia was real and the bisexuals were, in fact, struggling — Bisexual Awareness Week had once again descended upon us and there was… nothing. No dedicated weeks on any of my favorite sites. No essays rehashing old and new bisexual gripes. Even the pitches I sent in about bisexuality generated little to no interest from editors.
It seemed that the media world was just… done with bisexuals.
And as a frustrated bisexual with a lot of things to say, I decided to do what every writer was doing: I started a newsletter about bisexuality. Welcome to The B+ Squad.
All essays I’ve written on bisexuality — including ones from the project’s Substack era — are on this site. If you’d like to support the project (and get bonuses for yourself, including early access to essays), you can check out my Patreon.
Lux Alptraum
Writer & Journalist