Category: 2019 Winter – Bisexuality and Disability
From the (Assistant) Editor: Bisexuality and Disability
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability, Editor's Note
Dear Reader, The theme of this issue is bisexuality and disability. But what, exactly, is...
Read MorePap Smears & Paint Parties: A Journey Toward Embracing My Bisexuality
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability
By Sara Krahel This year I finally came out to my best friend as bisexual. But first, I have to...
Read MoreBisexuality & Autism
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability
By Martine Mussies (Cyborg Mermaid) One of my best friends is a true activist and his bathroom is...
Read MoreAround the World: Yossra, Egypt
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability, Around the World
And a Few Years Later, I’m Still Meaningfully Alive By Yossra A few years ago when I first wrote...
Read MoreBisexuality & Disability: Some Connections
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability
By Robyn Ochs Bisexualities and disabilities are identities that carry negative stigma in the...
Read MoreSociety giveth, society taketh away, and maybe society giveth again
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability
By Julie Morgenlender What do you think about as you head down the street? Maybe what to eat for...
Read MoreMy Disability is
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability, Poetry
By GL Meisner My disability is…My disability is my sexuality At least according to the critics I can’t focus on one personI can’t stay in a relationship for long My disability is my sexualityI swivel my head at every shinyAny...
Read MoreClaiming My Labels
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability
By Elizabeth M. Mechem When dealing with my ADHD, I find myself encountering many of the same...
Read MoreIdentity & Illness
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability
By jeanette gandionco lazam/Waimanalo Sometimes, even all the love and kindness from family and...
Read MoreBipolar Hypo (Kind of) Manic
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability, Poetry
By Jane Barnes I. I have Medicare D disability free meds asubsidized place a giant one- bedroomon a leafy street where I write too manypoems and when I’m a little “up” I’mamusing but there are too many callstexts emails...
Read MoreMy Life, My Labels
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability
By Julie Morgenlender Our world is filled with assumptions about labels. We like to assume that we know what labels others apply to themselves. We all do it to some extent, and it becomes a problem when we insist on it, when we...
Read MoreFunctional and Living, with Anxiety
Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 Winter - Bisexuality and Disability
By Theresa Tyree I’m not sure how to start this. What are we even calling anxiety these days? Is...
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