Current Issue: Parenting While Bi+
Editor’s Note: Parenting While Bi+
Dear Reader, The theme of this issue is “Parenting While Bi+” Writers were asked to tell us about...
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Beyond Heteronormative Reproduction and Building a Multi-Species Future
By Josephine Raye Kelly I wonder what it would be like to build a future that doesn’t cast...
Read MoreAround the World: Anonymous, from EAST AFRICA
By Anonymous Note: this article contains references to violence. I am a bisexual woman from an East African country. I was born and raised by a religious family in the capital city. I lived with both my father and mother under...
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Coming Out in a Myriad of Ways
By Beth Smyers Innis I’ve come out to my children several times. It takes a lot of emotional...
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Am I Doing It right? How Normalizing Queerness Helped Me Build Connection with My Child—and Turn a Mirror on Myself
By DC Malaya When my pregnancy became outwardly visible to others, I learned that parenting in a...
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At the Center of It All
By Amy Andre “She was telling the other kids that you used to be married to a woman.” “Ha! Okay. I...
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Pride and Joy
By Skylar Camp I sit down on the grass under a big shady tree by the playground. Vivi, my...
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The Verb: To Parent
By Riley Quinn I am a parent of a kind. I am bisexual+. I am pansexual. I am nonbinary. I live...
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Hell in a Handbasket
By Jaime M. Grant I had my first baby in my late 30s, and my last in my mid-40s. The first one...
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From Passing to Passing on Lessons
By Erika Grumet On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June 1980-something, I was helping my mother change...
Read MoreIt’s Written in the Stars…
By Jlo I’m a Libra with Gemini as antecedent. Also, I’m not into astrology. But this double duality has marked my life and I cannot escape it. And, after finally acknowledging my bisexuality two years ago, I appreciate the irony...
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A Statement from a Parentified Bisexual Queer Daughter
By Mikey Vibal I am not a parent in the traditional sense. I became a parent in the year 2000,...
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A Quick Lesson from My Daughter about Queer Parenting
By Meredith Worthen My daughter is almost ten years old, and I have made efforts throughout her...
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Honest to Goodness
By Lara Zielinsky At first, I wondered what I might have to say about parenting while bi, because...
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O Children
By Jane Barnes O children I forgot to have you Didn’t want to be a bad parent Like they who always...
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As a Bi+ Parent, Where Do I Belong?
By Alison Shea My whole life I have been a combination of decisive and unable to choose. People...
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Musings on Parenting While Bi
By Julie Ellen What does it mean to be a bi parent? I think part of being bi in general,...
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Parenthood: A Journey of One’s Own
By Ellen Looking back at it, my journey to parenthood began with my personal essay to get into...
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A Very Boxy Brunch
By Tobi S. At the end of a BWQ Digital Brunch we were talking about labels and boxes, checking...
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They Meant Us Harm
By Jen Companik At first the women only bumped into us on the dance floor. At first. And, at...
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Musings on Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Dr. Julia Shaw (Folio, June, 2022)
By Jane Barnes At twelve I fell in love with Judy. We enjoyed caresses so natural that we didn’t...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER: The Bi+ Parents Aren’t Alright
By Jessamyn Bowling, PhD, MPH My five-year-old kid does not remember a Pride parade. It has been so long since we were able to be in a space in which our relatively cishet-normative downtown is flooded with rainbows (albeit some...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER: “Mummy Likes Men and Women”: Telling Your Children You Are Bi+
By Ellen Davenport-Pleasance Coming out as bi+ can be difficult—especially when managing biphobia—or the cultural lack of understanding of bisexual identity. Adults—both heterosexual and queer—often fail to understand our bi+...
Read MoreFREE Bi+ Global Event
Join us at the 7th & 8th World Bi+ Meetups! To accommodate people in various time zones, we will have TWO meetups each time: Meetup #8 will be October 28, 4 p.m. EDT/10 p.m. CEST & October 29, 4 a.m. EDT/10 a.m. CEST....
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