Big Book News We’re now at the height of book awards season, and a novel focused on a bi woman has been short-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction, one of the U.S.’s most prestigious literary prizes. August, the narrator of Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn, featured in the last version of this column, has…
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Iran and Bisexual Activism
Interview and translation by Aredvi S. Soudeh Rad, 36, and Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh, 31, are Iranian feminist researchers and activists living in France and Sweden, respectively. They founded Dojensgara.org in March 2015. Dojensgara is the Farsi term for bisexual, and the website is the first and, so far, only resource about bisexuality in Farsi. Dojensgara.org not…
Bilicious and Beyond
an international adventure of creative growth & reinvention By Susannah Layton My creativity is an essential part of my identity; it’s also a powerful tool to help me explore, express and understand who I am and how I fit into the world around me. As a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and director, I present personal stories…
Around the World: Vivek Shraya, Toronto, Canada
Interview by Apphia Kumar Right after the 2016 BECAUSE conference, I found myself looking for brown bisexual badassery online and that’s when I came across Vivek Shraya in a Huffington Post article. After doing a bit more research, I found out that she was an author and, from what I could see, these were books…
Why Do They Have to be Gay?
By Jazmine Nieves Every day I work tirelessly on my writing; whether that means jotting down ideas that sprung upon me during class, talking to myself loudly and animatedly about characters and major plot points both in public and in private,staring at empty space as my mind plays over scenes to be created, or actually…
I Stand in the Garden
By Jazmine Nieves I stand in the gardenWatching my sisters smell the Roses,Plucking strong scented petalsAs my brothers caress delicate Lilies,Coaxing the snowy beauties with sugared words. I find myself drawn forward—the scentOf Roses causing me to draw close, bending downUntil my nose and lips touch the pink head,While the Lilies beckon me with sweetnessTo…
My Muse is Bi
By Laurie Wolfe Being bisexual is inextricably linked with my creativity, my art. And my art has benefited and flourished from being bisexual. Bilicious was a gift in that regard. In turn, Bilicious gifted me with a muse, that creative flow that comes when I write, which I gratefully call my Muse. I was also helped by inheriting…
The Big Bad B
By Meagan Kimberly The first time I came out as bisexual was through poetry, in my workshop class as a sophomore in college. I read my piece out loud, voice shaking, to a room full of strangers who hadn’t known me for years. Yet it felt nerve-wracking and exhilarating. These people didn’t know me in childhood, middle school, and…
Finally Discovering My Bi Blanket
By Bri Kerschner “I don’t mind her as long as she doesn’t come over and try to be a gross lesbian with me.” My aunts and uncles nodded and grunted their agreement with my grandmother’s assessment of her new neighbor, a single older woman whose hair was styled in a short crew-cut. I never really…
#BiWeek2016: Building a Bisexual Community
By Angela Dallara When I first came out as bisexual at age 16, I was on my own personal journey toward understanding the fluidity of sexuality and gender. I realized early on that I felt passionately and wanted to work toward LGBT equality as my career, and I am one of the lucky people able…