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Okay, a brief confession: when I first watched season one of The Afterparty last year, I wasn’t totally sold on it. I think there were a couple reasons for that: I wasn’t paying super close attention while I watched it (yes I was doing the whole second screen thing), which meant the whole “everyone’s story is its…

Late last night, before I went to bed, I started winding down by reading this New York Times piece by Mark Harris* about the resurgence of the gay male villain — one that, he notes, is no longer led by heteros hoping to demonize gay men, but gay men who realize that villainy is, you know, fun. We can debate…

A while back — I cannot remember how long ago it was — I saw a tweet that was along the lines of “there’s nothing more queer than a dyke railing a gay dude” (I’m unable to get you the exact wording for reasons that will momentarily become clear). Being the feisty young woman that…

For the past few days, I have been staring at a BBC headline that reads “Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did?” and trying to decide what to make of it. I should note, first and foremost, that the idea of an algorithm “knowing” that someone is queer before they’ve figured…

As a representation starved people, bisexuals have employed a number of desperate measures to secure evidence of the existence of our own kind. A celebrity says that they’re straight but not narrow? Bisexual. A dead guy who was convicted of sodomy was also married to a woman? Bisexual. Emily Dickinson existed? Bisexual. Cast off statements,…

I had a tweet a few years ago that was along the lines of “Gender identity is like dreams: I’m happy you when you feel fulfilled by yours and I don’t want to hear a detailed explanation of them.” As far as I’m concerned, the main thing I need to know about anyone’s gender identity…

Greetings from the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, folks! My vacation has been a lovely one so far, in case anyone was wondering. But that’s not what this newsletter is about, is it. You want to hear about the bisexuals. And today — inspired by a comment left by Owen Michael — I want to talk about bisexual vampires. Bisexual vampires!…

It’s a sad reality that many people remain insistent on seeing human sexuality as something that can be easily broken down into two camps, the “straights” and the “queers.” This is stupid for so many reasons — not least that it relies on a Western and specifically Christian understanding of sexuality and gender in order…

Cheers to metasequoiana for leaving this thoughtful comment on yesterday’s newsletter: I’ve been thinking, lately, about how monosexism breaks people’s brains, how it creates this false binary that forces people to disavow decades of lived experiences, decades of identity, in order to make sense of their present situation. I want to be clear about something before we…

Okay, so: is anyone else watching The Afterparty on Apple TV+? It’s a fun little mystery show currently in its second season, I think I’m liking the second season more than I liked the first (possibly because I can’t stand Dave Franco and even though he was the first season murder victim he was still in the…