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We are what they fear in themselves
A billion years ago, back when I was a tender and naive young college student, I attended a workshop led by a lesbian activist. The details of the workshop itself are unimportant; I honestly don’t remember the bulk of what she said. Indeed, the main thing that stuck with me was her insistence that “sexual…
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The invisible invisibles
One of the things that I realized fairly early on in my time as a Professional Bisexual™️ is that while we talk a lot about bisexual “invisibility,” there are actually quite a few bisexuals who are hypervisible — at least compared to our peers. If you are a white cis woman, and especially if you…
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With allies like these…
Well, here we are, almost to the end of Bisexual Visiwareness Week, which concludes tomorrow with Bisexual Awaribility Day. It’s been relatively underwhelming! I mean, it was a good week for me personally: I turned 41 and people gave me gifts and I got to see Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway (Daniel Radcliffe! Jonathan Groff!). But in…
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Who cares if I’m valid
My inbox, she is swimming in bisexual headlines. Would you like 10 signs that prove you’re bisexual? Or perhaps a servicey article on what it means to be bisexual? Perhaps you’re wondering what percentage of people think bisexuality is a choice! Then this article is for you. It is not, however, for me. It feels, sometimes, like the…
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The Visibility Trap
Here we are in the middle of Bisexual Visiwareness Week, that special time of year when… actually I have no idea what happens this week anymore. For a brief period of time it was the one moment a year when media outlets would remember that bisexuals exist and have issues that are worth highlighting, but…
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Trying to fuck/not trying to fuck.
My dear friend, the comedian Mike Brown, who you may be familiar with from his time as a correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, has a standup bit that I am 100% about to mangle. The joke — which will hopefully exist as a clip online one day, so you can watch it yourself rather than…
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