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Bisexual women beware!
Okay so we all sorta knew that when I ambitiously started this as a daily newsletter that there were gonna be … better days and worse days … shall we say, and today, I think, is a worse day. Just been dealing with some stuff and as a result there are no brilliant essays springing…
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The visibility trap.
Here is a nuclear take: I don’t actually care if queer stories are told by queer people. I should back up for a second, though, before you all lynch me. Let’s establish some basic principles: of course I care about queer people getting to tell stories that are meaningful to them. Of course I think…
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The joy of being seen.
As you may be (or, more likely are not at all) aware, I’ve been a volunteer advocate for rape and domestic violence survivors for the past four and a half years. What this means, in practical terms, is that a couple of times a month (less now that I’m also a mentor to new advocates),…
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We’re here. We’re bi.
This morning while engaging in my daily self harm ritual known as “scrolling through Twitter,” I came across a tweet from one of the creators of A League of Their Own (the Amazon series, not the movie, don’t ask for my opinion of the show because I was… not in love with it): Worth pondering: Why are the…
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My life is not a rom com.
Here is a sad little secret: I have a habit of imagining myself as the protagonist in a film — and, when it comes to my dating life, specifically as the protagonist of a rom com. Indeed, I once even wrote a screenplay based on the early days of one of my relationships. Though in…
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Bisexuality and the threat to “the family.”
At this point, it’s kind of standard boilerplate to remind people that bisexuality and polyamory do not go hand in hand, that to be bisexual is not to be non-monogamous, anymore than being attracted to blondes and brunettes means you have to have one of each. And like on the one hand… yes. This is true! Bisexuality…
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