Current Issue: Winter 2026 - Allies & Accomplices

Editor’s Note: Allies and Accomplices

Dec 2, 2025

For this issue we asked, “What does it mean to you to be an ally or an accomplice? What are meaningful ways that people have shown allyship and accompliceship to you or to the bi+ community on a large scale or individual level?...

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The She in Me

Dec 2, 2025 | ,

By Kaylee Baucom I’m a pony-tailed girl in church Watching you talk under the cross Dressed in white with no sin I’m a little lamb sleeping on green moss I’m a lipstick tube In the brightest red you’ve ever seen Paint my kisses...

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Unexpected Allies

Dec 2, 2025 |

By Jamie Clark When I came out to my extended family four years ago, I received some amazing and unexpected messages of love and support. One came from a woman I’ve never actually met. She is the wife of a cousin I don’t know...

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Queer, Too

Dec 2, 2025 |

By Jakki Johnston I was sound asleep until my normally shy, polite friend John started banging on my door. Of course I didn’t know it was him until I opened it, but there he was, determination written on his face. “I’ve...

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Did You Hear?

Dec 2, 2025 |

By Robyn Ochs We were at a large conference, and it was long enough ago—likely in the early 1990s—that it was still called a “lesbian and gay” conference.  I arrived on site just as folks were exiting the first plenary session. ...

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Strand

Dec 2, 2025 | ,

By Terese Coe Say what you said in the car last night, say a little more. We are the sea with a crested wave drawn to a distant shore. As once we lived in rivers as once we tumbled to seas, as once we knew by scent and sense the...

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Allies

Dec 2, 2025 | ,

By Terese Coe I was the spy who came in from the cold and you were the cold, my dear. One day timid and one day bold, and never distinguishing courage from fear. Terese Coe’s poems, translations, and prose appear in Cyphers,...

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Chaperones

Dec 2, 2025 | ,

By Enjay DeGuzman I forget how it comes up, and I haven’t planned it, but I say something like I’m bi. Sitting on the hotel bed across from this new friend and fellow chaperone in a double room in another country, our high...

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