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A forced perspective.
A little while ago — weeks ago? months ago? — one of my dearest friends texted me to say she’d just read a book that she thought I would enjoy: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I put it on my library hold list (I have so many books that I really only try to buy…
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A bisexual political agenda.
Here is what I know: back in the 1990s, back at the height of bisexual activism, when Anything That Moves was still being published and the B and the T had yet to be fused with the L and the G, there was a bisexual political activism group known as BiPOL. That’s about the extent of what…
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The bis must be crazy
It is a weird thing, to be a bisexual woman in the midst of a mental health crisis. I appear to be pulling myself out of the pit of my despair — the worst of the depression broke some time last week, and my natural mania began to return around Thursday — and I am…
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What is a bisexual?
I feel like I need to begin this newsletter with a personal disclosure: I am the daughter of two scientists. They’re both retired now, but for many years my mother worked as a biochemist (and specifically a virologist/HIV researcher) and my father worked as a biophysicist. So generally speaking, I am a fan of science….
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It’s a numbers game.
Another day, another person tweeting some bullshit about how interesting it is that bi people just keep ending up in hetero relationships. Must we do this again? There are so many reasons why I simply do not care to engage with this line of Just Asking Questions, most notably that it seems pretty clear that even within…
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Bisexuality is not a quality filter.
There is a sentiment I hear from time to time that never fails to irk me; it’s currently top of mind because I recently saw someone say it on Twitter (it doesn’t matter who, this is a common enough sentiment that it’s basically just in the ether). It more or less boils down to this:…
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