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Bisexuals bisexualing bisexually.
Here is paradox that lives in my brain: I think bisexual representation is often pointless and unhelpful, and yet I think bisexual representation is a crucial aspect of bisexual liberation. I think a lot of things that are associated with advocating for bi people — talking about bisexual scenes and characters in books and movies,…
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A Bisexual Love Story?
Some time last year, I was sent a galley copy of Akwaeke Emezi’s novel, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty, which is a thing that happens when you’re a writer and people think you might be able to do book reviews (I very rarely do book reviews, it is not my beat). I…
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Not all bisexuals are non-mongamous. HOWEVER.
There is a class of bisexual education that I personally think of as Bisexual Myth Busting™️, largely due to the fact that, well, it involves bi educators literally getting up and making lists of myths that they want to bust. You are, I assume, already mentally tabulating a list of said myths: It’s a myth…
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The bisexual to pothead pipeline.
At long last, it finally happened: my Google alert for “bisexual” led me to a news story that didn’t fill me with rage. We did it, everyone! The news item in question was a press release from Washington State University, where researchers recently did a study (which you can see here) looking at cannabis use among…
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It’s all just words, you know.
To begin with I should say that I did not see the offending tweet, it was deleted before I caught wind of it. All I know is that a hacker who leaked the TSA’s No Fly List also had a tweet talking about being a bi lesbian, and this, it seems, made people mad. Teenage queers started…
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When did you know you were bi?
Years ago, I was chatting with a heterosexual friend and she told me what I guess you could call her heterosexual origin story. “Oh, I’ve known I was straight since I was a kid,” she said, going on to regale me with stories of her boy crazy youth. She was kissing boys under the slide…
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