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Let’s talk about porn.
Earlier this week, I fell down a rabbit hole of link clicking that led me to this piece from Mashable’s 2022 Porn Week (did you know they did such a thing? I did not) that posits the question “Is bi porn problematic?” When I opened the article, I assumed — as anyone who has had…
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The Gen Z surge.
Over the past few years, there’s been a noticeable trend: Millennials and Gen Z are queer. Very queer. In survey after survey, year after year, people my generation* and younger are IDing as LGBTQ in percentages far larger than previous generations. And to some people — like this lady, whoever she is — that trend seems… suspicious….
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What if you run out of stuff to write about?
When I started this newsletter at the end of September 2022 — literally on a whim, literally because I was irritated that Bi Awareness Week had gone by with barely any coverage from the media — I made the bold choice to make it a daily newsletter. Not shockingly, one of the most common questions…
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It is hard enough to be happy.
I’m going to level with you all about something I’m not particularly proud of: I’m not very good at romantic relationships. This is something that I’ve been really sitting with now that I am back in therapy, because as much as I have been through the ringer over the years (and boy, have I ever),…
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The shape of oppression.
I think one of the reasons why being “bi enough” is such a concern for many bi people is because the majority of us can only conceive of bi oppression as being adjacent to the policing of same gender sexual contact and relationships. Can a bi person in a hetero appearing relationship truly consider themselves…
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What’s your internal narrative?
Humans are, as douchey writer types love to remind us all, inherently storytellers. From our earliest moments — or at least as soon as we’re able to grasp basic language and a few simple concepts — we are always telling stories, each and every day. I don’t mean this simply in the sense of a…
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