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An opaque bisexuality.
Months ago, I was hanging out with one of my friends — a PhD candidate in Princeton’s English department, because yes, I love me some academics — and, you know, just shooting the shit about my thoughts and theories on bisexuality and biphobia. She asked me if I was familiar with Édouard Glissant, a writer,…
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Blinded by the white.
Earlier this morning, as I was watching Twitter react to the latest announcement from my least favorite public bisexual, I stumbled across a tweet from Wagatwe Wanjuki, one of my favorite public thinkers (Check out her work! Support her Patreon!): Sinema has me thinking how bi visibility is dominated by white women and how much that hindered my own understanding…
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The Lonely Biland.
For several years now, I have had a sneaking suspicion that at least one member of The Lonely Island — the comedy trio made up of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer — is bisexual. Maybe even more than one! And I have to admit, once the thought occurred to me, it was hard…
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Is there such a thing as bisexual art?
After yesterday’s newsletter, in which I briefly touched on The White Lotus as a way to kick off a conversation about where “gay for pay” exists in the spectrum of bi identity (spoiler alert: sometimes it’s secret bisexuality!), I found myself thinking more about, well, The White Lotus, and specifically what it means for this show — this brutal…
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The gay for pay to bisexual pipeline.
I don’t know how many of you have been watching the second season of The White Lotus (created by Bisexual King™️ Mike White!), but personally, I have been loving it. Strong endorsement to check it out, even if you haven’t watched the first season (I liked that one too, but thought it was a little more heavy-handed…
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What do we want? To be left alone.
Over the weekend I started reading the winter 1991 issue of Anything That Moves — the first ever issue of this groundbreaking bisexual magazine — because, yes, it’s the first monthly reading pick for The B+ Squad book club and I’m going to be writing about it all month (Join the book club so you can read my thoughts!…
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