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Who is capable of dreaming of a better future?
One of the things I’ve been thinking about in the week plus since I saw the Barbie movie is how — this is not really a spoiler — for all the discussions of its feminism, it never really offers any exciting vision of what a feminist utopia might look like. I mean, yeah, there’s Barbie…
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Things that don’t matter
There are many reasons to mourn the loss of Shuhada Sadaqat (professionally known as Sinéad O’Connor), and many things that are worth exploring in her obituary. Her refusal to temper her beliefs to placate a mass audience, her brave willingness to call out abuse within powerful institutions like the Catholic Church, her commitment to social…
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Monosexual or bi in a bad relationship
In the opening of the classic queer film But I’m A Cheerleader (it’s great, absolutely holds up, watch it whenever you get the chance), viewers are introduced to Natasha Lyonne’s Megan through a series of queer tells. I don’t remember all of them; the two that stick in my mind are that we see her get distracted…
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This is not about the Barbie movie.
Trust me, I would have loved nothing more than for there to have been some bisexual themes within the Barbie movie that we could break down, but alas! While I think there’s an argument that there was queerness within the film (Barbie and Ken seemed to be, uh, kinda forcing their relationship and waaaaay more interested in…
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Well it’s *slightly* better
So last week my inbox was blowing up with headlines about a research paper that analyzed whether you can tell a man is bisexual just by the sound of his voice (which… who gives a shit). Now I’m overwhelmed by headlines about how bi people — and bi women in particular — have shitty health, both mental…
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The hunt for bidar, and other misuses of science
If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you are likely familiar with the fact that it has only been in recent years that many researchers have begun considering bisexuals to be a separate and distinct demographic category worth considering on our own — as opposed to, say, just lumping us in with gays…
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