Bi Women Quarterly

Current Issue: Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, and Feminism

Dec 9, 2022

Dear Reader, The theme of this issue is “Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism.” Writers were...

Hell hath no fury like a woman!

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Xanthe P. Russel Artist statement: In this piece, I was inspired by a set of very powerful but...

My Body, Their Choice

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Julie Morgenlender Outraged, but not shocked: that’s how I felt about the recent Supreme...

Around the World: Warsaw, Poland An Interview with Agata Maksimowska

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Around the World

Robyn: Agata, please tell us about yourself. Agata: I am a 42-year-old woman living in Warsaw,...

Always a Sunday Morning

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Amy Cook My friend, newly returned from abroad, is texting our group about being out of sync with time. It is Sunday morning, and “mass shooting” is trending again. I am scouring Twitter; what is Club Q, and how do these...

Abortion Poem

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry

By Syd Shaw “I never felt much about it either way, but the doctors told me after that I...

The Right to Our Voices

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Daphne L. Kanellopoulos When you hit enough roadblocks, you’re too tired to do anything but...

Heifer

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Angelica Neyra Artist’s statement: Influenced by my Hispanic upbringing, this work reveals the...

Letter to girlfriend’s mother(s)

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry

By Anusree Raveendran This poem deals with the relationship of two girls and how they confront...

Corpus

Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry

By Sarah O’Connor what does this body want? this more-than-machine of earth and electricity I have...

Coming Out West

Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Bret Anne Serbin Montana is a private state. Here we value our autonomy, cherish our right to live undisturbed, and spurn attempts to reign us in. I fit in because I’m a private person. I never coddled up to the crush of...

Blind Pursuit

Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Christina Geoghegan Artist statement: Nightscape. A portrait is revealed in the light from the...

Scales Of a Dragon

Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry

By Amelia Díaz Ettinger when I was four, I knew how to say no but not when to scream it in an...

Here, in South Africa

Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry

By Kirsten Deane Here, in South Africa I have seen a few women who are capable of growing hair on their chins. This only seems unusual when there is a man beside them. Here, in South Africa we are told that men will...

Sixth Sense

Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Kirsten Deane A week before my period my knees ache. My knees are made of a body of just bones. They complain until they reach the skin and then shiver. This is when I know something’s coming my way. My knees could be my...

whose hand ?

Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By téníòlá funmi téníòlá funmi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. On a...

Little Free Bodies

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Jen Bonardi As a server in a small restaurant in my seaside town, I know to keep quiet about my...

Pantone 258

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Dr. Midori Samson My electroacoustic compositions use found soundscapes and electronic...

Our Blood is on Your Hands

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Jodelle Marx Jodelle Marx (she/her) is a visual artist and spoken word poet from Oregon, USA....

We Are Not Incubators: Forced Birth & Compounded Violence

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Frances-Ann Egan The circumstances that surround abortion issues range from concerns about sexual violence, to dangerous pregnancies, to forced birth under no extraordinary circumstance other than the injustice of being...

Missing You

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By samos Artist statement: The original painting is an acrylic on canvas board. I’ve always...

Frat Guys Love that I’m Bi Until I Hit on One of Their Brothers

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Emily Carriere Author’s note: this article mentions sexual assault. I can’t tell you how many...

The S is Not Silent

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry

By Cassia Buonadonna is a 20-year-old student and activist passionate about the cross-over between...

Ham-Handed

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Oakley Ayden We called the nurse Ham Hands after she’d left the room. Moments before, one of those hands was pinning my pregnant body to the hospital bed with hammer-like heft while the other rammed through labia folds...

LETTERS

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

“You and this publication and all the related work found me when I was lost, and it is still helping lost folks find their way home—no matter what “bi” ways they travel. A donation to support this crucial work is enclosed.”...

Hairy Mammal

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Meow Kapow Artist Statement: I designed this cross stitch pattern to express my frustration...

Viva, la sangre

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Karla Wirth Artist statement: Drawing inspiration from my upbringing in Mexico City, Mexico, I...

Distracted and Confused NO MORE: Bisexual Liberation

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Anna Kochetkova With the repeal of Roe v. Wade across the seas, here in Australia as a white...

RESEARCH CORNER: Violence Against (Bi+) Women

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Research Corner

By Josephine Raye Kelly What does bodily autonomy mean in a country where three women a day are killed by an intimate partner and over half of women have experienced sexual violence? These numbers get significantly higher when...

Privacy Violation

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Daniela Guerrero Artist statement: The moment when the news about Roe vs Wade arrived—even here...

Our Bodies Ourselves is Back as a Website!

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Laurie Rosenblum Do you remember the health and sexuality book for women and girls, Our Bodies,...

The Out 100 Recognizes Bicon Fiona Dawson!

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

Fiona Dawson, an Emmy-nominated and award-winning filmmaker as well as a proud bisexual,...

Bi+ Activists Meet with White House During Bi+ Visibility Week

Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism

By Ellyn Ruthstrom For the first time since the Obama Administration, bi+ activists from across...

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