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That time Tyra Banks did a (figurative) hate crime.
As some of you may remember (but hopefully most of you have forgotten or never knew), Tyra Banks — the former model, the creator and host of America’s Next Top Model — used to have a talk show. The Tyra Banks Show (also known as The Tyra Showor simply Tyra) was, in many ways, typical afternoon talk show fare; but it…
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It’s not just comphet.
In her 1980 essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” Adrienne Rich outlined a theory of “compulsory heterosexuality” — often shortened to “comphet” — arguing that, in effect, many people cannot understand their own queerness due to the ways that society trains all of us to see heterosexuality as normal, to understand it as a default…
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You have the right to live your life.
Earlier this week, after reading one of my newsletters, my friend Erika Moen (the stunning talent behind sex ed comic Oh Joy Sex Toy and many wonderful autobiographical comics and books, also check out her new Patreon) reached out to me with an anecdote about something that happened to her a few years back at a comics convention:…
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Where’s your bisexuality at?
Over the summer, my alma mater* sent out an email celebrating the university’s role in a bunch of queer shit (it was June). Included in this missive to alums was a link to a Columbia Magazine article from 2016, documenting the history of the Columbia Queer Alliance — a group which, I was excited to learn, was actually…
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The formerly bi.
As a bisexual woman of a certain age — and one who went to high school in Buffalo, no less — I have something of a loyalty to Ani DiFranco. Yes, I know she’s problematic, yes, I know about the plantation, and I make no excuses for any of her bad decisions (or lackluster apologies)….
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The bisexual threat to the family.
We’ve officially reached that time of the year known as The Holidays™️, aka a time when, for better or for worse, we’re constantly talking about family. I don’t really feel like talking about the ways bi people are or aren’t accepted by their families (though we can definitely address that another day); the thing that’s…
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