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Taste the rainbow
Earlier this week, the legendary Tristan Taormino (who, btw, has a memoir out!) tagged me in the comments of an Instagram post (which I’m including below just for ease), asking me what I thought of it. I am, as you may already know, a natural critic and a hater, so my immediate reaction was a bit, “Ugh.” (I…
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Research finally backs up the 1 dick rule
You know me, guys: I am very enthusiastic about getting more research done that helps shed light on what it means to live as a bisexual in a monosexist world. It’s only through research that we’ve been able to, for instance, flag that bi women really are at elevated risk of sexual assault; that across…
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What era of bisexual acceptance are we in now?
There is a Newsweek cover from 1995 that periodically makes the rounds. It’s so (in)famous that I’m willing to bet you already know what cover I’m referring to — but if you don’t, you can see it here, in a Reddit thread that weirdly misidentifies it as a Time cover. (I mean, I get it, I always misremember it as…
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Bisexuals at work
About eighteen years ago, I worked as a sex educator at an afternoon program for low income teens in New York City. It was a decent enough job (my favorite part was when my students would call me after hours to get advice or guidance) at a theoretically LGBTQ-friendly organization, and it was certainly better…
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The myth of bi availability
Earlier this week, my delightful friend John deBary (hi John if you’re reading this, I hope I got the capitalization right on your last name) sent me a link to this Verily Ritchie video about ‘00s Bisexual Chic, which… talks a lot more about emo culture than I expected. Watch the video if you want (or don’t, I’m…
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Have people considered that dating is hard
I saw a tweet a while back — maybe a few months ago? It doesn’t really matter — that was something along the lines of, “I think it’s so great that all those bi girls who say they are attracted to every woman and one man manage to find that one man to date.” (I could look…
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