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There is, I think, a fear that exists in many monosexual-bisexual relationships. Or if not a fear, then the acknowledgment of a block, an impenetrable wall that exists between the two parties. To be bisexual is, on a fundamental level, to have a part of yourself that is fundamentally unknowable to a monosexual — even…

At the tail end of 2011, I was freshly out of a multiyear relationship and weirdly obsessed with Comic Life, a piece of Mac software that may or may not exist anymore that made it easy to create photo comics. The way Comic Life worked was this: you’d choose a page layout, and drop photos…

Okay. Let’s talk about this New York Times Taylor Swift queerness piece. I feel like I should start by admitting that I zoned out maybe 75% of the way through the piece (it is so long) and thus cannot claim to have given it a close read or anything, but I also feel like I read enough to get…

I wrote last week about this University of Michigan study about, ugh, bisexuality and risk taking that just gave me a bad feeling; somewhat predictably, that study has gotten traction in the press and taken over my Google Alerts for bi stuff (it’s all either that or reactions to that weird New York Times about Taylor Swift and queerness that…

Let me start by saying this: when I first saw the teaser trailer for Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, my initial reaction was, “Really? This again? Are we that out of ideas?” I don’t remember when I first read the Scott Pilgrim comic books, though based on where I was living at the time and the fact that all volumes…

There’s a new University of Michigan-helmed study about bisexuality, peeps, and it just dropped in Science Advances — and the press release has been picked up by all the usual suspects because… I guess “science!” and “bisexuality!” is just too tempting a combo to ignore. Although I am the daughter of two scientists, I don’t really have the…

I mentioned yesterday that I am trying to improve my Hebrew. There are a couple reasons why I’ve been doing that. First, it’s just a thing to do as the world burns: it’s way more fun to talk about She-Ra in Hebrew and learn about the complexities of the different tenses and verb forms than it is…

There’s this thing that happens sometimes, where you’re clicking through the news, or through the Google alerts you masochistically set up to alert you to any time that someone says “bisexual” in the media, and you see a headline like: Comedian Fern Brady: ‘Bloody everyone says they are bisexual now’ It is natural, I think,…

[This is the soundtrack to this essay] I am often befuddled by how much time and energy is spent attempting to decipher queerness, and bisexuality in particular, for a mass audience. And even more than that, I’m befuddled by the anger some people express when other people simply fail to grasp the nuances of their sexual desires…

Friends, I did it: I finished my DS9 rewatch. I won’t bore you with tons of commentary on the show (if you want that feel free to email me directly), but I will say that one thing that really popped out to me this time around was how bisexual the show really is. Not overtly, of course,…