By Candy Yun The first time I recognized myself as bisexual, I was in high school. I fell into a terrible unrequited love for someone of my own sex. It was a stormy time and my unrequited love was unsuccessful, but this experience helped me realize that I could have same-sex attraction. A few years…
An Open Door for Biphobia
By sagavica I usually work as an English teacher. It has meant I have had toremain silent about being bi. Why? Because as a primary schoolteacher in a Catholic school, I am judged harshly by my clothesand my attitude. I have tried my best to teach my students thatyou may love whoever you want and…
Non-binary in the Workforce: Out or No?
By Em the Gem The use of pronouns in a letter of recommendation may feel likea non-issue to some. For others, such as myself, it is a source ofmajor anxiety and near-constant internal debate. As I attemptto enter the workforce (in the midst of a global pandemic, noless), I am faced with a decision: do…
Coming Out, Creatively
By Martine Mussies Strictly speaking, I did not come out at work—I keep coming out through my work. While researching sexuality in mermaid storiesas well as in King Alfred fanfic. When writing about my autism, which is intertwined with my sexuality. And as a musician, when co-organizing and performing at the Gay Sing Inn of…
Coming and Going
By Nikki Smith Coming and going is a guilty privilegeBecause my home and journey do not hold the same heartsBecause I pass in nonbinary, where others cannotBecause in a two-step system, we start out as DescartesI can never go back. Coming and going is a guilty privilegeI stepped out of Seattle with a veil of…
Alive to Every Moment: A Review of My Education by Susan Choi (Viking, 2013)
Reviewed by Laura Berol In Susan Choi’s latest novel, the young heroine starts graduate school with an obsession for a Byronic professor and ends up in a torrid romance with his wife. Nights and days in bed, pleasures given and received, pour from the pages like sweet liquor, but this isn’t a book to be…
Maria San Filippo’s The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television
Reviewed by Jennie R. I really wanted to like this book. When I got The B Word inthe mail, I was excited to get right into it! However, startingat the cover, the book seems stuck back a decade ago. I wasworking in a bookshop for the summer when I agreed toreview it. I was so…
Three by Jane Barnes…
You Look Like a Girl She looked down at my ID, and said,“You sound, look, and act like a girland this ID shows a man, therefore I’mnot giving you a laptop.” It looks just like me. I identify withmy ID. I wasn’t there dressed up.I didn’t have on a dress. I wasn’tDressed in character. Yes…
Shiri Eisner’s Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution
Shiri Eisner’s Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution I had a brief exchange several years ago, which botheredme at the time, but for reasons I didn’t fully piece togetheruntil reading Shiri Eisner’s book. I was in Boston, and I was explaining to a co-workermy experience of the bi community in the city. I explainedthat bi…
Am I Bi (Sexual) Enough for(What?)
By Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato Am I bi sexual enough to strut my stuff with the Queer Choir? Or even (SIGH) aspire higher? Would you dismiss me if I kiss this Miss but not that Mister? Shall I qualify as Thy bi sister? When I was married to a man they ran me out of the…