Current Issue: Summer 2025 - Finding Community
Editor’s Note: Finding Community
Jun 1, 2025
This issue’s focus is on “Finding Community.” Readers were asked to write about their experience...
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Desperately Seeking Susana
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Susana Arrieta Growing up in Venezuela, most realities had additional veils of secrecy. I was...
Read MoreAROUND THE WORLD: RUSSIA
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community, Around the World
Bi Activists in Russia United and Created a Horizontal Organization By Sobi Buchhammer I was 21...
Read MorePole Kisses
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Janie Kang Darkness envelops me. My heart pounds. The first strains of music echo in the...
Read MoreFinding Community
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Amber Ballweg Growing up, I was instilled with a strong sense of community. Both of my parents volunteered in multiple organizations and served in emergency services. I was in scouting for ten years and participated in all of...
Read MoreFinding Community at My Age
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Loraine Hutchins Back in the 1970s, when I was in my 20s, I sought bi community but found only...
Read MoreFiber Art – Abstract No. 14
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
Artist Statement: This is a fiber piece using various types of yarn and ribbons on a circular...
Read MoreFinding My Voice in a Transatlantic Community
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Melanie Ulland Before I came out as bisexual at the age of 20, I was a staunch supporter of the...
Read MoreBi+ Belonging and Connection
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Pamela Vallejos Chavez I have never been one or the other. I have always felt like a strange...
Read MoreBig Gay Drag Bingo Brunch
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Desirae Mack October 11th, 2024: National Coming Out Day. A crisp Fall morning. In baggy cargo...
Read MoreBi+ Community Connection
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Riley Quinn My connection to our community began in early 2019. My partner of 17 years died by suicide in August of 2018 and I was lost. Utterly and completely lost. Falling into an abyss. I was told at work that I was...
Read MoreSpaces for Everyone
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Chelsea Bock “Do you want to come out for my birthday?” I asked my best friend’s...
Read MoreFinding Queer Joy
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Rachel Brook We’re living through the self-proclaimed “Dyke Renaissance.” But I’m bi, actually....
Read MoreSweetness Prevails
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Maia Brown-Jackson Oil painting, 12”x18” Maia Brown-Jackson is a symphony of papercuts,...
Read MoreAny Way I Can — Usually in the Wild
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Lilliana Méndez-Soto My bi+ friends have come to me slowly via many different avenues. When I...
Read MoreAre you connected to bi+ community?
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
“Are you connected to bi+ community? If yes, what form does it take, and how did you find it?” We...
Read MoreChampagne, Frites, and Freedom
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Anonymous (for now) I found my bi+ community in the most beautiful, organic way. In May of...
Read MoreMagnetizing Radical Bi+ Community in a Hetero World
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Femily It took me decades to find the sort of wildly kind and sexually alive community I always wanted—one where I could feel seen, celebrated, and deeply connected. I tried joining some lesbian and queer communities, I...
Read MoreThermal Encounter
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Charlotte Poitras Artist Statement: This piece, created using a thermal camera and recolored in...
Read MoreBi Life, Good Life
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Solveig Stafford When I talk about my past romantic and queer-platonic relationships to others,...
Read MoreBi Community Organizing Through the Decades: Tips of the Trade
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Ellyn Ruthstrom Are you the kind of person who likes to attend and participate in community...
Read Morewe’re too unmedicated and caffeinated for real life
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Jennie Cao Artist Statement: This piece is a recollection of memories from study dates with my...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER: Finding Community
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community, Research Corner
“As if I don’t have any boundaries”: Bi+ Women and Their Experiences with Sexual Violence By Sara...
Read MoreLove Punch
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community, Poetry
By Jennie Harper I was 39 when I learned how to make a proper fist. “I know,” I protested as my...
Read MoreLGBTQ+ Researcher Community Rising
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Jessamyn Moxie “They tried to bury us; they did not know we were seeds.” – Dinos...
Read MoreBisexuality Beyond Binaries by Lisa Speidel: A Review
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community, Reviews
By Oakley Ayden Dr. Lisa Speidel’s newly-released book, Bisexuality Beyond Binaries: Celebrating...
Read MoreThe Wind Plays with the Air
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community, Poetry
By Jane Barnes Plucks each metal musical Instrument and rain chimes In with a soft brush of a drum...
Read MoreIn memory of Carol E. Moses
Jun 1, 2025 | 2025 Summer - Finding Community
By Robyn Ochs Carol E. Moses, 74, died on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at her home in Cambridge,...
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