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The bi tipping point that never comes
There’s a famous Newsweek cover from 1995 — you may already know which one I’m talking about, but on the chance that you don’t, well, here you go: Bisexuality, it declares in a giant font. Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges. It’s easy to make fun of now, of course. The earnestness. The insistence that
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No B without the T and a clarification
Let’s begin with a clarification: To be perfectly transparent, this newsletter is a project I launched on a whim just a week ago. I was frustrated with the shockingly muted Bi Awareness Week that had just passed, and I was frustrated with repeatedly hitting a wall every time I tried to pitch a project about
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But what lies beyond the rainbow?
Can you imagine a color that you’ve never even seen? In the sixth episode of Amazon Prime’s A League of Their Own, the Rockford Peaches spend a night at the movies, taking in a showing of The Wizard of Oz, which, yes, does become the basis for a metaphor. When Abbi Jacobson’s Carson arrives at her very
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A novocaine of the mindscape.
I don’t remember what it was that first sparked me to look up statistics about bisexual people. What I can tell you is that it was in the summer of 2020, when I had just begun to think of myself as — and here words still fail me — a homoromantic bisexual, a sapphic bisexual, a woman
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A note on language
If you find yourself attracted to multiple genders, there will inevitably come a time when you are forced to defend your sexual label of choice. If you opt for bisexual, someone will insist that you’ve announced you are attracted to exclusively two genders and thus hate nonbinary people; if you opt for pansexual, you’ll get
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The invisibility of bisexual invisibility
When your very crisis of not being seen cannot be seen Imagine, for a moment, a group of people who are in crisis. No matter the metric, this group is not doing well: when it comes to mental health, they’re at elevated risk of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and suicidality, with a tendency to develop
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