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Do we want to be weird?
The other day, while I was aimlessly scrolling Twitter — or maybe it was Bluesky? They let me on Bluesky finally — I saw a post from a colleague (it doesn’t matter who) that attempted to sum up The Queer Condition™️. There are two types of queers, the post posited: the ones who are labeled…
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Why do they hate us?
When you are a member of a marginalized group, it is understandable to wonder why, exactly, you’ve been targeted for other people’s aggression. For sexual minorities in particular it can be especially baffling: why do people hate us for our sex lives, something that literally does not effect them in any way? A popular response…
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It’s fine to disagree with me.
So I had a feeling that yesterday’s essay, which proposed that cramming all sexually marginalized folks — be they L, G, B, T, Q, A, I, K, P, or some other letter entirely — all under one umbrella is maybe less helpful for progress than some might think, might strike a nerve, and indeed it did….
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We’re going to need a bigger bucket.
We are more than halfway through May, which means we are almost in June, which means that Pride is quickly approaching, and Pride discourse has already started. Whew! There’s gonna be a lot of garbage takes in the coming weeks, some of which I’m sure I will wind up dissecting here, but I want to…
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It is hard to see outside yourself.
About twenty years ago, I went on a few dates with another bi woman who I met on Nerve Personals. Nothing really came of it, aside from her “lending” me a corset that eventually just became mine when we drifted apart, but there is one conversation that we had that has always stuck with me….
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False boundaries.
So here’s the thing, friends: when I am typing out this newsletter, I’m sitting alone at home with my cat, just shooting my thoughts into the void. Of course I know that this is being created for an audience — but also, do I really? It’s only when I start to see comments and likes…
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