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Gender

It’s Bisexual Awareness Week, Y’All

I first came out as bisexual in high school in a scary wasteland called Montana in 1999. Now, I wasn’t out to everybody, but enough people guessed I was queer of some sort I routinely got called the f word. I came out to more people as bisexual in high school than I did trans […]

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

This Week in Lady Reads

Welcome back to another week of lady reads! This week, we’ve got the best movie review ever written, a sick burn on Donald Trump, cool animals, and lots of other interesting posts.

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News

Friday News Bites: LGBTQ Progress, Gun Violence + More

Hello, everyone! I’m back after a month off and I’ve got a mostly good news roundup to ease us into our first October weekend. Let’s get right to it:

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Sex

My Favorite Bisexual

Bi Visibility Day (aka Celebrate Bisexuality Day) was September 23. In fact, this entire week is Bi Awareness Week. I’m bisexual, so hi. And I want to talk about my favorite (pop culture) bisexual.

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Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Dispatches From Ladyblogland

This week, we’ve got some writing-related news, including J.K. Rowling being lovely, and various other ladyblogging business. Shall we jump in?

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Perspectives

Coming Clean

I knew I liked girls before I knew liked boys and I clearly remember the day I discovered this truth.

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Sex

Textual Healing: Snooping, Bisexuality, and Moving Forward

Q. OMG I don’t even know where to begin! I have been with my bf on and off for the last 8 yrs. Well, I’ll just get down to my concern. I was with him this past weekend and noticed that our lovemaking was very different. He did some things to me that he has […]

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Sex

Masterbitch Theater: Bisexual Invisibility

Though Huffington Post seems to be one of the few news outlets with frequently-occurring articles on bisexuality, I still found myself a little irked with a recent “Bi the Bi” column.

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LadyGhosts of TV Past

Torchwood Series 1: Sex and Mortality

Torchwood understands that our desire for sex, for connection, is wrapped up in our sense of mortality.

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Perspectives

My Bisexual Guilt

It’s weird, coming out as bi: once you’re out, you might rather you’d just stayed in.

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Ask the Editors

Ask the Editors: My Boyfriend is Bisexual

Today’s Ask the Editors question deals with doubt, identity, and the B-word.

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Perspectives

(Straight) Girls’ Night: Biphobia in Sex and the City

I wasn’t expecting to feel so vulnerable that night. The five of us were enjoying a “girls’ night”: on this occasion, a pajama-clad Sex and the City marathon. Though I find this show extremely problematic in terms of gender and racial representation–and especially in the equation of consumerism with feminist empowerment–I didn’t feel especially targeted until […]

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Perspectives

Bisexual? Bi George, I think she’s got it!

I can remember the first time I had Capital F “Feelings” for another woman. I was 16 years old and participating in a weeklong government program at a nearby university. Halfway through the session, we participated in conventions, in which we gathered with the rest of our fictional political party, composed a platform, and, most […]