Category: 2022 Fall – Parenting While Bi+
AROUND THE WORLD: 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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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...
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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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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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