Category: 2014 Spring – Mental Health
Worth It
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health
By Hannah Johnson I had always been an anxious person, and by the time I started high school I was also depressed. When I was fourteen, my mother was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. I was told by a few of my peers that my mom...
Read MoreSplit Down the Middle
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health
By Mariah Cruz Sometimes I feel like my head might explode or my body might split open, no longer able to contain the two separate people that live within its confines, like a scene from the movie Alien. One person is a...
Read MoreFrom Your Editor: Mental Health
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health, Editor's Note
The theme of this issue of Bi Women is “Mental Health.” Recent research shows that women who...
Read MoreAround the World: PETRA MAGNO, Philippines
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health, Around the World
Interview by Robyn Ochs Petra, please tell us about yourself. I’m Petra Magno, in my early...
Read MoreThe Things They Don’t See
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health
By Julie Morgenlender The thing about invisibility is, you can choose, if you want, to “pass.” If you “pass,” then you face less discrimination in specific areas, like at job interviews or just in the world in general. But then,...
Read MoreBRC Library Gets Boost From Donor
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health
One day last year the Bisexual Resource Center received an email out of the blue asking if we...
Read MoreProfile: Dr. Mimi on Community, Confidence and Self-Care
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health
Interview by Robyn Ochs Mimi Hoang, Ph.D., is a clinician, educator, author and advocate with over...
Read MoreWhite Tie Occasion, 1988
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health, Poetry
By Marcia Deihl “White Tie Occasion, 1988” needs a note of introduction. As Robyn [or “the...
Read MoreCrazy Love
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health
By Jane Barnes I don’t know when I went crazy. My father was a shadow that crept into my room in the dark, and when my liberation occurred, we’d built a big house out in the country; the important point: my bedroom was now on...
Read MoreAnnouncements
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health
Come to BECAUSE 2014 in St. Paul, Minnesota BECAUSE, which stands for “Bisexual Empowerment...
Read MoreSolutions for Bisexual Mental Health Issues
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health
By Harrie Farrow Following are 11 ways to improve bisexual mental health: Educate mental health...
Read MoreREVIEW: Alive to Every Moment: “My Education” by Susan Choi
Jul 9, 2021 | 2014 Spring - Mental Health, Reviews
Reviewed by Laura Berol In Susan Choi’s latest novel, the young heroine starts graduate school...
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