Category: 2022 Fall – Parenting While Bi+
AROUND THE WORLD: EAST AFRICA
Dec 5, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Anonymous Note: this article contains references to violence. I am a bisexual woman from an East African country. I was born and raised by a religious family in the capital city. I lived with both my father and mother under...
Read MoreBeyond Heteronormative Reproduction and Building a Multi-Species Future
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Josephine Raye Kelly I wonder what it would be like to build a future that doesn’t cast...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Parenting While Bi+
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+, Editor's Note
Dear Reader, The theme of this issue is “Parenting While Bi+” Writers were asked to tell us about...
Read MoreComing Out in a Myriad of Ways
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Beth Smyers Innis I’ve come out to my children several times. It takes a lot of emotional...
Read MoreAm I Doing It right? How Normalizing Queerness Helped Me Build Connection with My Child—and Turn a Mirror on Myself
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By DC Malaya When my pregnancy became outwardly visible to others, I learned that parenting in a...
Read MoreAt the Center of It All
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Amy Andre “She was telling the other kids that you used to be married to a woman.” “Ha! Okay. I...
Read MorePride and Joy
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Skylar Camp I sit down on the grass under a big shady tree by the playground. Vivi, my...
Read MoreThe Verb: To Parent
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Riley Quinn I am a parent of a kind. I am bisexual+. I am pansexual. I am nonbinary. I live...
Read MoreHell in a Handbasket
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Jaime M. Grant I had my first baby in my late 30s, and my last in my mid-40s. The first one...
Read MoreFrom Passing to Passing on Lessons
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Erika Grumet On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June 1980-something, I was helping my mother change...
Read MoreIt’s Written in the Stars…
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Jlo I’m a Libra with Gemini as antecedent. Also, I’m not into astrology. But this double duality has marked my life and I cannot escape it. And, after finally acknowledging my bisexuality two years ago, I appreciate the irony...
Read MoreA Statement from a Parentified Bisexual Queer Daughter
Sep 1, 2022 | 2022 Fall - Parenting While Bi+
By Mikey Vibal I am not a parent in the traditional sense. I became a parent in the year 2000,...
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