Community Suggested Resources“Creating LGBTQIA+ Friendly Schools and Campus Communities”This article, published in September, 2023, is written by a clinical […]
Bisexual Health, continued“Bisexuality and Healthcare”This study, published in 2021, uses data from previous studies to focus on bisexuals and the ways in which […]
“Reproducing while Black: The crisis of Black maternal health, obstetric racism and assisted reproductive technology”In this 2020 article, Dr. Dána-Ain Davis calls on scholars to look past the narrow focus of […]
Seventeen MagazineA compilation of bisexual celebritiesTeen VogueHalsey apologizes for not being “gay enough” for some fansBi OrgA list of fictional bi characters, including video game characters, […]
GLAAD Bisexual Erasure explained by the world’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organizationHealth.comBi erasure and the negative impacts on physical and m […]
“Queering Reproduction in Trans-National Communities”This 2018 article by Laura Mamo focuses on queer reproductive justice, QRJ, and continues some of her work on kinship and belonging.”Gaining Momentum”In this […]
Queering Reproduction:Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of TechnosciencePublished in 2007, Laura Mamo covers the history of “reproduction without sex” and the technologies that advanced in the field. Using res […]
Perhaps Almodóvar and Ozon are onto something by not only providing a multitude of characters with varying identities, but also by avoiding labels and embracing fluidity. “Almodóvar’s films represent an eloqu […]
François Ozon is considered to be part of the jeune cinéma français or Nouvelle Nouvelle Vague, a collection of film directors and auteurs who have separated themselves from the “mostly male-centric and hete […]
When we think of queer film auteurs, perhaps only a handful of directors come to mind. In North America, we have Lisa Cholodenko, John Waters, the Wachowski siblings, and Alejandro Iñárritu. In Europe, there e […]
The absolute absence of bisexual representation in children’s books leaves two gaping holes; there are no mirrors in which young bi readers may view themselves or their families, and there are no windows for e […]
When I think about banned books, my mind goes to The Strand Bookstore in Manhattan, and their beautiful display of banned books. There are even t-shirts for sale that state in bold, “I read banned books”. Man […]
In the Journal of Children’s Literature, Stephen Adam Crawley did a study about representation of transgender children in picture books. With a limit of picture books, there is an implication that these are c […]
The “why” is simple. I am a bisexual woman in a same sex relationship with a bisexual woman, raising an apparently cisgender girl in Brooklyn, New York. I am an avid reader and, so far, the kid is proving to be […]
When I first began my own fertility journey, I went in bright eyed and optimistic, excited at the prospect of having a baby. My health insurance at the time was one I had obtained through the NY health exchange. […]
Another irksome idea that occurs often in television and film, not just in children’s books, is the presence of a lone queer person or couple. I get so excited when I read about a new show and its authentically q […]
Many teachers, parents, and caregivers use children’s books as a starting point to teach young people about particular subjects, which is why it is so problematic to have either stereotyped bisexuals in c […]
On page 30, Melson says that we “can count on these animal companions to dispense affection, relieve childhood isolation, and give our offspring the quality time that we are too exhausted or distracted to […]