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A site I have never heard of (Mamba Online? Do you know it?) has an essay on media representation that poses an interesting question: is the representation of bisexuality better on television than in film? You can read the essay if you want (I didn’t find it that well written, but you may disagree), but…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been rewatching one of my all time favorite non-Star Trek shows, the British teen superhero dramedy Misfits. If you haven’t had the pleasure of watching Misfits (it’s available on Hulu in the US and… somewhere else in other countries, probably), it can roughly be summed up as “what if…

So this is interesting: according to the Associated Press, the Census Bureau is currently considering adding some questions about sexuality and gender identity to the American Community Survey — and, if I’m reading the piece right, possibly to the 2030 census as well. There is a part of me — the part that loves data…

At some point in my life, for reasons I do not fully comprehend, I got added to the Oreos marketing mailing list. Most of the time this just means I get emails alerting me to the fact that, if I am so inclined, I can buy a box of Oreos that’s got my picture on…

Hey, remember back in December when Dear Abby wrote a horribly biphobic response to a letter about a woman who got dumped right before her wedding because she was bi, and whose parents were… being supremely shitty about it? Well, I remember. And it would seem that I am not the only person who that…

Periodically — like this past weekend — I will see someone share some early (read: pre-1990s/1980s maybe?) news coverage of a trans person (and probably a trans woman) noting with awe that — contrary to the common perception that in the bad and terrible past, trans people were automatically treated with disgust — the coverage…

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…

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…

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…

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…