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On validity.
There was a time, not so long ago, when it was de rigeur to tell people that they were valid. I’m sure you remember doing this. Maybe you are still doing this. The idea was to confirm that people — usually trans people, though sometimes queers — were, in fact, who they said they were,…
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The paradox of the bisexual coming out.
When you are as deeply immersed in the world of bisexuality as I am (read: when you have some Google Alerts set up for “bisexual” and “bisexuality”), you get a lot of updates about people coming out. Sometimes it takes the form of a quick quip on a late night show, sometimes it’s social media post…
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Sexual freedom for all! (Some restrictions apply.)
Years ago, I wrote a piece with a somewhat controversial premise that I still stand by: if a man has sex with both men and women, but only dates women and identifies as straight then… he’s straight. More specifically, I argued that men like this are heteroromantic bisexuals, and that while I, personally, would see them as…
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The elusive female bisexual.
I am often saying that it’s important to do more research on the bisexuals. It’s important to break bisexuals (and ideally bisexuals subcategorized by gender) out into our own demographic groups; it’s important to consider bisexuals as a unique category of people with our own unique experiences, not as an undifferentiated subset of LGB (or,…
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Bisexual superposition.
Despite a youthful obsession with Michio Kaku’s* Hyperspace, I don’t know a ton about physics (apologies to my scientist parents, one of whom is a biophysicist (the other is a biochemist/virologist).). But I do know that there’s this thing called “quantum superposition,” where particles — even, sometimes, large particles — can exist in two places at once. (Apologies…
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What of solidarity?
About a year and a half ago, when the first horrific wave of the pandemic was starting to ease up and I found myself eager to be social again, I befriended another bi femme. In theory, we were very similar: two overeducated cis white girls in Brooklyn, both bi, both Jewish. But there was one…
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