Category: Research Corner
RESEARCH CORNER: The Cost of Doing Business: Social Media Use among Bisexuals and Pansexuals
Summary of Full article: Social media use among bisexuals and pansexuals: connection, harassment and mental health (tandfonline.com) By Kallie Strong and Nicola Koper Studies of LGBT+ individuals and their internet and social...
Read MoreResearch Corner: Don’t Worry, Bi-Happy! Research Shows Bi-Positive Feedback Improves Our Mental Health
By Kallie Strong and Nicola Koper Most academic studies on bisexual individuals have focused on our higher risk for mental health challenges, such as depression and anxiety. The research study reviewed here, though, looked at...
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RESEARCH CORNER: Bi the Numbers
By Nicola Koper and Robyn Ochs Following along with this issue’s theme, here is a brief summation...
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RESEARCH CORNER: “Femme it up or Dress it Down”: Personal Experiences and Research on Bisexual Women Pushing Back Against Normative Interpretations of Gender and Sexuality
By Lindsey Thomson As a (cisgender, white) bisexual woman, my gender expression has become more...
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RESEARCH CORNER: Why Our Numbers Matter: An Example from Canada
By Dr. Nicola Koper I probably notice numbers and statistics more than most people. I’m a...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER: Violence Against (Bi+) Women
By Josephine Raye Kelly What does bodily autonomy mean in a country where three women a day are killed by an intimate partner and over half of women have experienced sexual violence? These numbers get significantly higher when...
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+...
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The Research Corner: Article: Broad City: Millennial Women Surviving the Neoliberal Gig Economy in Comedy Television
Forthcoming in Journal of Popular Culture In a forthcoming article, entitled “Broad City:...
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The Research Corner Is Back!
After a hiatus, we are bringing back the Research Corner to Bi Women Quarterly. We are looking...
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A Growing International Bi+ Community
By Daphne Hermsen For many bi+ people globally, communities in which they feel safe and understood...
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Interview with Miranda Schreiber: Improving Health Care for Bisexual+ and Other 2SLGBTQIA+ Individuals Through Better Training of Medical Practitioners
By Nicola Koper Miranda Schreiber (2021), along with four colleagues from the University of...
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