bi week 2020

bi week 2020

bisexuality

society + culture

Fashioned with New Language: A Conversation on Bisexual & Trans Shared Experience & Solidarity

“At the cultural level, in the US at least, when you say someone is bisexual, the image that automatically generates is of a cis bisexual person. The double erasure of…

the team —

Sep 23, 2020

a+ roundtable

bi week 2020

af+

Where Do We Go From Here? Our Questions on Bi Community and Identity

“What does it mean to *be* the bi+ community? Does anything unite us? Can we find what we share and ignore all the bullshit and live into that?”

Rachel —

Sep 23, 2020

bi week 2020

bisexuality

love + sex

Oh Cool, Me Too: What It’s Like for Bisexual People to Date Each Other

Given that so much discourse is spent on bi people in relationships with binary genders, looking at relationships between bisexual people can be an opportunity to look at more expansive…

Lexi McMenamin —

Sep 23, 2020

bi week 2020

bisexuality

society + culture

How Did We Get Here? 6 Bi People on Coming to Their Identity for Bi+ Week 2020

“So many people come to the table with preconceived notions about bisexuality — namely that it excludes trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming folks — and if I was out in…

the team —

Sep 22, 2020

Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian

bi week 2020

literature

8 Books Featuring Bi+ People in Longterm Relationships

Given that identities are often assumed based on the gender of a person’s current partner(s), how do bi+ folks navigate longterm relationships? What effect does being in a longterm relationship…

Casey —

Sep 22, 2020

bi week 2020

bisexuality

af+

Interview With My Ex-Boyfriend (!!): Christopher

“You know, I was never annoyed that you were gay! I was just glad to know you. If it were the 1940s maybe we would have had a lavender marriage.”

Adrian —

Sep 21, 2020

bi week 2020

bisexuality

first person

Am I Bisexual? Is That The Word?

I will never again cultivate a romantic relationship with a cis person on purpose, not in this life. I have been hurt too badly, too often, by too many people.…

A.E. Osworth —

Sep 21, 2020

bi week 2020

bisexuality

society + culture

Pushing Daddy Harder: What Being a Bisexual Sugar Baby Has Taught Me

Dancing around his apartment with a bottle of Dom Perignon in hand, I learned I couldn’t speak for anyone but myself.

Kimberly Contessa —

Sep 20, 2020

bi week 2020

Dungeons and Dragons

geekery

Dungeons & Dragons: A Great Place to Be Queer

When we’re open to it, giving ourselves honest space to roleplay can be pretty powerful stuff.

Melissa Lusk —

Sep 19, 2020

bi week 2020

bisexuality

television

I Couldn’t Find the BIPOC Queer Comedy Series I Wanted, So I Made It Myself

Donzell and I had so much fun shooting this sketch that I turned to him and said, “I want to write a series of bizarre and inappropriate situations that our…

Ashlei Shyne —

Sep 18, 2020

bi week 2020

bisexuality

love + sex

Remaking Myself and My Desires on the Comics Page

An exploration of how this cartoonist came into her bisexuality by seeing her desires made manifest in others’ art and decided to make herself seen through her own art.

Emma —

Sep 17, 2020

autostraddle behind the scenes

bi week 2020

af+

Editor’s Notes: On Bi+ Week 2020

“I know we don’t ever get to stop thinking entirely about the annoying issues we have to keep re-litigating over and over, but I do want us to get to…

Rachel —

Sep 16, 2020