Category: 2026 Winter – Allies and Accomplices
Between Allyship and Accompliceship: Lessons from Exile and Art
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices
By Farnaz Abdoli I am an Iranian-born multidisciplinary artist, writer, and activist, now based in...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Allies and Accomplices
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices, Editor's Note
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?...
Read MoreMy Quiet Revolution: On Art, Writing, and the Radical Act of Showing Up as an Accomplice
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices
By Martine Mussies When we picture activism, we often imagine bodies in motion—marching, chanting,...
Read MoreAROUND THE WORLD: India
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices, Around the World
“If Something Is to Be Told About My Life I Will”—Interviews with Indian Bi Women By Aishwarya...
Read Morethe man who stands on Silas Creek Parkway with a “Black Lives Matter” sign
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices, Poetry
By Alexis Rhodes the man has a standing date on Silas Creek Parkway daily, 4:30 to 5. a standing...
Read MoreThe She in Me
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices, Poetry
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...
Read MoreThis Hill I Will Die On
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices, Poetry
By Casey Lawrence How very boring it must be, without a hill to die on; no ups and downs nor...
Read MoreUsing My Platform
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices
By Cathy Renna Over the years I have had countless people ask me how and why I am such an ally to...
Read MoreOne of the Few Times in My Life that Somebody Stood Up for Me
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices
By Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti In the early 1970s, my family and I moved to Portland, Oregon, from...
Read MoreUnexpected Allies
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices
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...
Read MoreListen to My Gut
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices
By Jasmine Garcia Jasmine Garcia is an oil pastel and oil paint artist working and living out of...
Read MoreAccomplice To Who?
Dec 2, 2025 | 2026 Winter - Allies and Accomplices
By Rachael Arsenault I thought, at first, that I had an ally. An accomplice. Someone who accepted and understood, who was ready to stand by me and stand up with me. Someone I could be my whole self with, unapologetically and...
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