Category: 2011 Summer – Faith and Spirit
Letters
Jul 16, 2021 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit
Dear Bi Women, We would like a print copy of your wonderful magazine. What is the cost to an...
Read MoreFrom your Editor: Faith and Spirit
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Editor's Note
Dear Reader, The theme of this issue is “Faith and Spirit.” Readers were asked, “What do you believe? What motivates and inspires you? How does the religion (if any) in which you were raised match with your current understanding...
Read MoreThoughts on Northampton Pride
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles
By Johanna Bates In June, I’ll have been out as bisexual for 21 years. I came out at 15, and it’s...
Read MoreChanging My Mind
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles
By Larraine Wilson I had two dads growing up, but I didn’t know it. I honestly had no idea. None....
Read MoreBi Women Around the World: Polina Skibinskaya, A Tri-national Bisexual from Ukraine, US and Canada
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Around the World, Articles
Interview by Robyn Ochs Polina Skibinskaya: I was born in Odessa, Ukraine, back when it was part...
Read MoreThe Better Question
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles, Poetry
By Lisa Shugert Bevevino After 70 hungry daysand their restless nights, curled in bedI woke up,...
Read MoreThe Scarf
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles, Poetry
By Casey Lyons (10/2010) It moves me soI mourn for those who miss the point,who think a woman’s body something vile,grotesque,that must be covered up,lest it offend the pious.Allah did not createa foul thing for her to hideunder...
Read MoreThe Bisexual National Anthem
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles
By Hana Maris (sung to the tune of, hmm,oh yeah, “America the Beautiful”) Oh beautiful for open...
Read MoreBe Discriminating … Wait, Don’t!
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles
By Daphne L. Kanellopoulos In the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama asserted in his televised speech on May 1, 2011, “This is not a war against Islam.” I posted on Facebook how happy I was that the...
Read MoreFluid Spirituality
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles
By Chiquita Violette My general belief is “to each their own.” I don’t think that any one dogma or...
Read MoreSexual Freedom, Spiritual Expression
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles
By Beth Kimbell “Sex is the sacred song of the soul; sex is the sanctuary of Self.” – Aleister...
Read MoreHell
Aug 1, 2011 | 2011 Summer - Faith and Spirit, Articles, Poetry
By Jo-Anne Carlson Devil found me searchingFor my heart’s desireWhen I saw her smilingMy desire...
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