Category: 2014 Summer – Intersection: Age
Our Stories Connect Us
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Jamie Bergeron-Beamon “I’ve written 14 pages already and haven’t even gotten to the good...
Read MoreBi and Empowered: Celebrating Who We Are
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Vanessa Brown, MA, MFTI As I write this, I am preparing to celebrate my forty-third birthday in...
Read MoreFrom Your Editor: Intersection: Age
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age, Editor's Note
The first in a series on intersectionality, the theme of this issue is “Intersection: Age.”...
Read MoreBlindsided
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Theresa Tyree “Hey, are you still there?” It was the 26th of March, the day before my birthday and the midpoint of my spring break, and Jordan and I were on Facebook again. She was half a world away in Croatia, touring the...
Read Morethe young adult instruction manual
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age, Poetry
By Jessica Johnson first step: embarrassment. comb through your life for clues. find them. feel...
Read MoreFrom Baby Butch to Curmudgeon
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Sue Katz Hi Queers under 40, I was a baby butch in the days when being caught with my high...
Read MoreQueer Also Looks Like This
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Jodi S. Rosenfeld When I was in my 20s, being a visible bisexual woman was easy. Even if I were dating a man at the time, I always had my backpack with its buttons. So many buttons screaming “This is who I am!” My favorites...
Read MoreAge is How You Feel
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Colleen McTigue My name is Colleen, and I turned 58 this year. In the past few years I’ve gone...
Read MoreLetter to My Younger Bisexual Sisters
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Gwendolyn Dear Bi Sisters Who Are in Their Twenties and Thirties, In a few months I’ll be 40...
Read MoreI, The Septuagenarian: 70 Years
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Jane Barnes I turned seventy on the twenty-ninth of December. I was born in the Brooklyn Navy Yard hospital at 5:30 AM. After I’d learned in a poetry workshop that you were SUPPOSED to infuse your writing with emotion, I...
Read MoreOne Word: Bisexual Coming of Age in the Late 1970s-Early 1980s
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato We had one word: bisexual. In those days, some people still...
Read MoreTo My Young Sisters
Jun 26, 2021 | 2014 Summer - Intersection: Age
By F. Withe We live in an amazing time; one where following your own path to sexual awareness is...
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