Current Issue: Spring 2024 Letters to Self
Editor’s Note: Letters to Myself
Mar 1, 2024
This issue’s theme is “Letters to Myself.” The prompt was: “Have you ever wished you could go...
Read MoreDear You: lose
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Nicole Miyashiro Lose people/ who were never there, lose/ the lies, illusions, truth-fearing/...
Read MoreDisney Channel Presents: Bisexual Awakenings
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Felicia Fitzpatrick Dear 11-year-old Felicia, You need to write a thank-you note to Disney....
Read MoreAROUND THE WORLD: Diana Martínez, Jalisco, Mexico
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Around the World
Interview by Robyn Ochs Diana Martínez (she/her/ella) is a software engineer and leader of the Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Intel in Mexico. I met Diana in 2022 at the Out & Equal Workplace Summit in Las Vegas,...
Read MoreLetter To Myself
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By strega claire manning dear you, right now you are too familiar with the lavender carpet in your bedroom closet—what once was your sister’s space, now yours—as you plug your ears to the sound of your parents fighting. right...
Read MoreYou Should Know
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Syd Shaw To be careful. I could tell you not to date that man at 20, not to kiss that girl at 16, at least not where your parents will see. I can tell you that their opinions won’t matter, not forever at least. I could give...
Read MoreYou Are a Gift to The World
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Anna Kochetkova I often want to hug my younger self and promise that I will keep her safe. The...
Read MoreTo the girl…
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Audrey T. Carroll Text reads: “whose art teacher painted over the canvas of her sunrise before...
Read MoreA Letter to My Younger Self
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Zar I have always known, felt, something within myself that was different; I could not pinpoint what, but with growing up and new experiences, I realized I was queer. What a word! Strange, peculiar? That was how I was feeling...
Read MoreTwenty Years Gone
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Chelsea Bock And though the course may change sometimes Rivers always reach the sea —Led...
Read MoreThe Visiting House (To My Little Self and My Little Brother)
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Maggie Young I love you with syrup in your hair and gum on the bottoms of your shoes. Don’t...
Read MoreThree Biku
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Martine Mussies to my younger self Embrace love’s vast hues, Don’t fret over fixed boxes, Be...
Read MoreThe True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys as Wormhole
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By LHB I’m speaking to you in a specific moment: You’re sitting on the floor of your high school’s music practice room, contriving reasons to spend time with the girl you’re hopelessly crushing on. She mentions she’d bought a...
Read MoreVoice Notes to My Younger Self
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Lila Hertelius 1 The sun has just set, and the full moon is rising. You know, it’s funny. The...
Read MoreTo My Present and Future Self
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Eris Zion Venia Dear Eris, Ten years ago, you wrote a letter to your future daughter. Today, you’re sitting next to your child who is three and a half months old, watching Sesame Street as you write this. Wow. What a...
Read MoreFractured Advice
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Mary Jane Blank To create is to love. Not a singular love absorbed into one subject, but the...
Read MoreThe Letter I Needed the Year Everything Broke Apart
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Alison Shea Hi there. It has been a tough couple of days, huh? You have had expectations of...
Read MoreDear Young, Sweet, Confused Girl
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Taylor Raucher You’re not broken. I think we need to establish that right out of the gate. You are NOT broken. There is nothing wrong with what you feel, what you desire, or what you don’t desire. I know it feels like you’re...
Read MoreLetter to Myself
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Alicia Vane Alicia, I want to be tender with you, but I know how that makes your skin crawl. So instead, let me grip your arm firmly and say: Your intensity is not a bad thing. You are not too much. Do not minimize yourself....
Read MoreLittle Gay Girl
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Rachel M.C. Finney Why are you tracing screenshots of Disney princesses, little gay girl—...
Read MoreAbstract 4
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Jo-Anne Carlson Acrylic art on stretched canvas Jo-Anne Carlson is a writer, artist, and...
Read MoreQueerness
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Erica Galera Born and raised in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines, Erica Galera is...
Read MoreDear Younger Me
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Robyn Walters Dear Younger Me. Surprised? Communications are much improved since your high...
Read MoreTo My Childhood Self
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Amelia Díaz Ettinger Quérida Niña, That mystifying anger that erupts without warning, that...
Read MoreLetter to My Younger Self
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Meghan Hansen My dear 17-year-old Meghan: I know you are confused. I know that you think you...
Read Moreice cream drippings
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Ayla Rose Miller when courtney coulter exclaims that making out with curtis feels like ice...
Read MoreLetter To Self
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Alyx Marsh Alyx, I think you are finally beginning to realize just how far you’ve come in life, especially these last few years. The last 12 months have been a doozy, eh? What do I have to say to you? I know you want to...
Read MoreDear Me: You Won’t Feel Alone Much Longer
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By AJ Dolman This might seem impossible from where you’re sitting, young, shy, lonely me, but try...
Read MoreNovember Meditation (Letter to Myself)
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Mārta Ziemelis If your own mind is too loud to bear, if the world feels like it’s shattering...
Read MoreThank You, Little Me
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Anisa Pračić-Šehić To be a free woman with dignity and a high level of self-care is hard. To be a pansexual woman in a patriarchal society such as Bosnia is very challenging. What does it mean to be a woman? What is the...
Read MoreHere Goes…
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Valerie Tendai Chatindo Val, I saw this call, this whole letter to myself thing. I didn’t want...
Read MoreYou Have Never Been a Ghost
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Alice Edgar To my 18-year-old self: You have never been drunk. I am looking through your old Pinterest account and you have a “pin” that says something about greeting death drunk and in love. You have never been in love....
Read MoreA Love Letter to the Worst Version of Myself
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Isabel Maurer To My Younger Self, I know what you’re going through, and I’m sorry. You’d say the same to me, I think. Don’t listen to your mother. I know you know that already. You think you don’t listen to her, but she’s...
Read MoreDoubting Myself. Finding Myself. Freeing Myself.
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Eleanor Twine I am now 15. Some still say, “It could be a phase” She’ll grow out of it “Are you sure?” Too young to know better “You’re still growing” She’ll grow out of it No one No one No one Says that If you say “I’m het”...
Read MoreTo My Thirty-Year-Old Self
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Diana Dickey There are many chapters between this letter and where you are now. I know you well enough to know that you are not likely to believe some of what I’m about to tell you, so I am going to skip ahead and let you...
Read MoreLetter to Myself
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Jacq Valencia Beneath the sea noises are muffled movements, restrained while you’ve floated below, treading water in wait the pull has always been felt up your bones knew which way to rise your eyes knew which way the light...
Read MoreLetter To Myself
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Violette Rose-Jones we are all collections of ourselves, blood and shadows, pooling on our deep...
Read MoreLetter to My Younger Selves
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
By Anonymous This one’s hard. You will live. You will survive. I know you think you won’t, but you do. You will be shaped by the absolute hideousness of humanity, but you will survive; and in surviving you will affect so many...
Read MoreIn Memory of Dr. Beth Firestein
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
On Jan 21st we lost a bi+ leader, Dr. Beth Firestein, bisexual psychologist, and author. She died...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER: Gen Z Is the Queerest—and Most Bisexual—Generation
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Research Corner
By Robyn Ochs The numbers are clear: Gen Z is the queerest—and the most bisexual—generation. In...
Read MoreInvitations & Upcoming Events
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself
Bi+ World Meetup May 24 Join us at the 12th Bi+ World Meetup! Meetup will be May 24, 4 p.m. EST/...
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