Current Issue: Winter 2025
Editor’s Note
Dec 3, 2024
This issue’s theme is “Teachers & Mentors.” The prompt: We all have teachers in our lives...
Read MoreMr. Mac
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Clare GM In my final year of high school, I shared an English Literature class with half the...
Read MoreAROUND THE WORLD: Interview with Barbara Oud, Bi+ Netherlands
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors, Around the World
Interview by Lejla Delalić Barbara Oud (she/her) is executive director of Bi+ Nederland, the Dutch...
Read MoreSally & Lani
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Lani Ka’ahumanu I met Professor “Just call me Sally” Gearhart in a Basic Feminism 101 class in...
Read Morelove poem to a teacher
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Anna Lucia Deloia This year, sidewalk chalk is contraband, and cardboard must be registered...
Read MoreAbstract no. 2
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Jo-Anne Carlson Jo-Anne Carlson is a writer, artist, and musician from Yakima, WA, in the U.S.,...
Read MoreLuis in Colombia
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Jane Barnes Years ago, at the City College of New York, I had a brilliant student, from...
Read MoreThe Teachers’ Kid
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Caro Fritz I was a teachers’ kid. I was part of the life most students don’t think about and...
Read MoreMy Mentor: Audre Lorde, Hunter College
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Julene Tripp Weaver It took years of therapy before I enrolled for an undergraduate degree. I...
Read MoreBaba
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Dr. Jamie Marich In her classic Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells the...
Read MoreIt’s I-dentity, Not You-dentity
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Anonymous Robyn Ochs has taught me many things in her/their clear, gentle, and kind way....
Read MoreThe Note Card
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Sydney Glide I am sitting in my feminist film theory course during my senior year of college....
Read MoreRemembering Cole
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Gia Choquette Teachers and mentors come in many different forms—some traditional and others surprising. I consider my late friend and ex-partner, Cole, to have been my greatest teacher in regards to bisexuality. I met Cole...
Read MoreComic, untitled- By Tara Avery
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
Tara Madison Avery is a cartoonist, publisher of Stacked Deck Press, and a board member of Prism...
Read MoreModeling Myself on Madonna My Role Model Didn’t Let Society Tell Her Who to Love
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Tanya Anne Bassie Bowers My first day of college, I proudly wore a black t-shirt with colorful...
Read MoreLearning the Grammar of Love from a Hot Queer Teen TV Show
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Becky Karush In May 2022, a week after the queer teen rom-com series Heartstopper debuted, I went for a walk. I went to the meadow near my house in southwestern New Hampshire. It’s not a remarkable meadow. About 100 feet...
Read MoreCome Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are…
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Delphine RL Like anyone, I’ve been inspired by various people who helped me find my own self,...
Read MoreBeing Visible for My Students
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Chelsea Bock For most of my life, I’ve been either a student or an educator, and sometimes the...
Read MoreStrongly Agree / Agree / Disagree / Strongly Disagree— A Mentor Evaluation Form
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Nicole Miyashiro My mentor is accessible. I shoot an email to a stranger, asking about the...
Read Moreγλυκύμαλον *
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Danielle Wallace Concealed in a corner, Another translation of ‘The Great Sappho’s Fragments’...
Read MoreBOOK REVIEW: AJ Dolman Believes This Too Shall Pass—But Not Without a Fight: A Review of Crazy/Mad
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
Reviewed by Brianna Lopez AJ Dolman (she/they) was tired of being voiceless. So they wrote...
Read MoreBOOK REVIEW: Second Chances in New Port Stephen, by T.J. Alexander
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
Reviewed by Janie Kang From the first page, Second Chances in New Port Stephen by T.J. Alexander...
Read MoreBOOK REVIEW: Akhavan’s Memoir Is Anything But Embarrassing
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
Reviewed by Jen Bonardi It’s likely that you’ve never heard of erstwhile actress, occasional...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER The Netherlands is VERY Queer
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors, Research Corner
By Robyn Ochs The Netherlands is VERY queer. A 182,000-person study called Safety Monitor 2023,...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER “We’ve come a long way, baby!”
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors, Research Corner
By Sheri, aka Zoom Goddess The American Psychological Association has a long and troubled history with the queer and gender diverse community. For many years, it accepted the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER: Redefining Education and Mentorship: A Revolution for the Bisexual Community
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors, Research Corner
By Jenise Justice Education and mentorship have always been central pillars in the development of...
Read MoreNews Briefs: Teachers and Mentors
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors, News Briefs
Compiled by Dylan Fee In September, Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia and the third Asian country to legalize same-sex unions after their king signed a marriage equality law. The other two countries in Asia...
Read MoreBi+ Visibility at the White House
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Nicole Holmes On Monday September 23, bi+ advocates and educators Dr. Lauren Beach, Nicole...
Read MoreMaggi Rubenstein, a Pioneering Bi Advocate
Dec 3, 2024 | 2025 Winter - Teachers and Mentors
By Liz Highleyman Maggi Rubenstein isn’t as well-known as some other bisexual activists, but she...
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