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I can accept everything except change
There is often a gap between what I know, intellectually, and what I feel, emotionally. I’m used to managing this gap — managing it the core of dealing with my OCD — and yet management is not the same as elimination. The gap persists. I still feel it. Maybe it will never go away. I…
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Just So Stories for people with PhDs
If your childhood was anything like mine, then you grew up reading a selection of tales known as Just So Stories — a Rudyard Kipling book that offered whimsical narratives about how, for instance, the leopard got his spots (which I just skimmed because I wanted to remember what the story was and, uh, it’s…
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My hand, she has been forced
Let’s just start with something obvious: Christian and Bridget Ziegler are terrible people. I don’t feel like I should have to explain why; the very existence of Moms for Liberty is an answer to that question. Nothing I have said, or will say, is intended to dispute the basic fact that the Zieglers have done…
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SNL can go kick rocks
Saturday Night Live! It’s a mediocre show that sometimes has a few bangers and has launched the careers of some truly funny people when it hasn’t chewed them up and spit them out. It is also not infrequently a casually biphobic enterprise that puts out sketches that drive me crazy and clog up my Google…
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The Harry Styles conundrum
A recent PinkNews article — which really gives up the game by admitting at the top that its whole purpose for existing is that “is Harry Styles bisexual” is a trending search on Google — got me thinking about this whole question of Harry Styles and sexuality (which, honestly, is rare for me: I think…
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(Re)consider the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
In 2007, while writing a review of Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, the film critic Nathan Rabin coined a term that would wind up taking on a life of its own: Manic Pixie Dream Girl. An MPDG, as you may already be aware, is a very particular female archetype that pops up in a wide range of…
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