#bi women quarterly

[robynochs]

“Sapphic Solace” by Nicole Miyashiro, (2024, mixed media collage) From the newest issue of Bi Women Quarterly, Childfree

Read the artist statement, as well as the rest of the issue, here: https://www.biwomenquarterly.com/sapphic-solace/

[son-0f-venus]

Who wants to see some neat stuff I found poking around the Bi Women Quarterly archives

"Bistory at the Lesbian Herstory Archives"

"I talked with Joan about the principles behind the LHA and her vision of its future. She said that the LHA is dedicated first and foremost to being a lesbian space.

When I asked her what she meant by "lesbian" she offered "any woman who has at some time in her life loved another woman" She also remarked that she would rather err on theside of inclusivity than be too exclusive, which explains the large collection of materials relevant to both lesbians and gay men(such as the Gay Community News), feminist materials, and a small but growing collection of materials on bisexuality. For Joan, the mission of the LHA is "to preserve the multiplicity of lesbian presentations." There is something of interest here for any woman who identifies herself as a dyke, a feminist, a mother, a butch or a femme, a prostitute, a worker in a traditional or a non-traditional occupation, a practitioner of S&M, a woman of color, a Jew, a witch, a teenager or an olderwoman, a closeted woman or an activist, a bisexual, an artist, and the list goes on. The sheer amount and variety of the stuff is testimony to the diversity of the lesbian experience and the vitality of lesbian communities"

A poem "Here I Am" by latina bi dyke Laura Perez

"we dream a world

which bridges the barriers,

i, this

bi-coastal, bisexual

dyke of color

have living proof

the distance is

not so great"

Here's the whole thing go check it out

I also found a bi femme and trans lesbian butch couple- and my freakin heart I wish them the most wonderful things wherever they ended up in life

"How I Learned to Love My Femme Self, Butch Dykes, and Transgender Warriors" by Liz Nania

"Laurie honored my bisexuality and I honored her proud trans butchness. We often felt like poster girls for Bi-Trans Unity. She stood up for me to her separatist-lesbian friends who were disapproving of her dating a bi woman; I stood up for her when I heard trans-phobic remarks- We both know bisexuals and transgendered people are truly natural allies and need to celebrate and further develop our bonds i the community"

And here's a lesbian identified bisexual talking about assumptions

"Dont Assume Anything" by Amy Wyeth.

"They say, "Don't Assume Anything" and "Question Au- thority." No one, including gays, bis and hetero- sexuals, should assume anything about someone's sexual preference based only on the way that person looks. Everyone should question the notions defined or perpetuated by those in positions of authority (e.g. the media, certain powerful icons/members of gay culture, and cer- tain dangerous bigots) as to what a lesbian or bisexual woman looks like. Not all of us feel we are well represented by such narrow definitions."

Just goes to show how timeless the bi witticism of Assume Nothing! really is. I highly recommend just perusing through the archives or even the current isues there's loads of interesting history

[lesboevils]

with pride month approaching and my old archival links post being broken into several annoying sections. here are some useful starting places on lgbt history.

disclaimer: most of this has to do with usamerican history / are in english my apologies, this is just what i had on hand. if you have more please feel free to add them or dm them to me.

the act up oral history project

the lesbian herstory archives

the transgender archives of the university of victoria

the digital transgender archives

glbt historical society

lgbtq digital collaboratory

anything that moves

the bisexual manifesto (1990)

samuel proctor oral history project

a full master post of lesile feinberg's works (stone butch blues included ) by @genderoutlaws

the queer zine archive

dyke march compilation

paris is burning ( documentary )

how to survive a plague ( documentary )

united in anger: a history of ACT UP ( documentary )

screaming queens ( documentary )

the celluloid closet ( documentary )

one institute

audre lorde's poetry collection

aqurives

bi women's quarterly (1/2)

[isabellascarlett1]

Exclus: “Bi Lesbian is a new made up term”

Actuality: “Bisexual Lesbians are a large and irremovable part of the Lesbian community, even if many Lesbians treat them with insults, ignorance, stereotyping, exclusion, rejection, invalidation, and worst of all, silence”

- Bi Women Quarterly, 1983

(Not that it matters if the term is “new” or not to begin with)

[maitredorsia]

American Psycho has been hijacked by ideological misogynists; and the most common counter argument I see is people pointing out that the film was directed by a woman, the book was written by a gay (or bi, depending on who you ask) man and therefore it should be obvious that it’s a satire. This is true, but it doesn’t touch on just how anti-manosphere AP actually is (despite predating online in-cel culture) and I want to explain what I mean —

Bret Easton Ellis explicitly stated that AP is not only a satire on materialist culture, but that it’s primarily a self-directed critique — he had a period in his life where he aspired for the ideal male lifestyle presented in magazines like Gentleman’s Quarterly. This alienated him from the people around him. It made him miserable.

We see this in Patrick as well, though it’s exacerbated by his presumed AsPD and very clear mental illness. His pathological need to be the perfect man, to have the perfect life, completely isolates him. Women are nothing more than objects, prey, meat. They only serve to satisfy his desires — in the film, he and his friends laugh about how “there are no girls with good personalities” and the ideal woman is “a little hardbody who will satisfy all sexual demands without question”. (A conversation which also occurs in the novel almost verbatim). Sound familiar?

In a particularly gruesome scene near the end of the novel, Patrick says: “though it does sporadically penetrate how unacceptable some of what I’m doing actually is, I just remind myself that this thing, this girl, is nothing, is shit […]”. This is exactly the way that manosphere content conditions men to think.

A few sentences later we get the kind of thing you see “blackpill” guys saying when they explain their plight: “And later my macabre joy sours and I’m weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing “I just want to be loved”, cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer […]”

Tl;dr: Patrick Bateman is explicitly (albeit sort-of inadvertently) and fundamentally an anti-in-cel figure. He is a warning.

[genderoutlaws]

✨ Commonly Used Sources ✨

Bi Women Boston (bi women quarterly backlog)

Trans Reads (books, essays, articles, zines)

Transas City (ephemera, photographs)

Digital Transgender Archive (wide variety of historical materials)

GLBT Historical Society Archive (wide variety)

Leather Archive (user: public | pass: leather)

Lesbian Herstory Archive (photos, pins, shirts)

ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archive (via OAC)

{ WIP — will continue to update }

[dworkinhardorhardlydworkin]

Okay which one of you gyns on here recommended the "bi women quarterly" paper because this current edition is so, so absurd. Like idk how the editor read this and was like "eyup this belongs in here" but there's multiple pieces in this issue that I feel that way about. It's so fucking misogynistic and homophobic this time around what the fuck.

[anotherfauxredhead]

Bisexual Childfree peeps: we got our own issue now!!! Just in time for Celebrate Bisexuality Day today!

[catelyngrant]

This old post is doing the rounds again, which is timely! I (OP) have recently joined the editorial team of Bi+ Women Quarterly, a publication featuring the art and writing of bi+ women globally. BWQ has been around since 1983 and exists as an entirely free resource for folks across the world. (You can find past issues at the link above!)

We're currently fundraising as part of Give OUT Day to keep this resource free, accessible, and to share it out as widely as possible. There are a lot of really, really important places to put your money right now, and I know most of us here on Tumblr aren't swimming with cash; if you can spare a few dollars and would find value in supporting this, either by donating or reblogging, I'd appreciate it. You can donate here.

Happy Bi+ Awareness Week!

[robynochs]

Call for writing. The theme of Bi Women Quarterly's next issue is "Bi+ Joy."

Introducing Bi+ Joy Submit by August 1st, 2023

Bi+ Joy: What experiences make you feel euphoric and affirmed in your bi+ identity? How has community belonging (or the struggle to find belonging) influenced your journey? How does your bi+ joy intersect with your other identities? Review books, shows, and other media that have wooed you. Share your poetry, essays, artwork, and other sparks of bi+ joy.

Bi+ Joy - Fall 2023 Issue 01 August 2023 Deadline

More info: https://www.biwomenquarterly.com/submission-guidelines/call-for-submissions/

[f0rthel0ve0fw0men]

Check out this website I found through Threads! It's called: "Bi Women Quarterly" Here's an article I read from the website :) I hope y'all like it too :)

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source: biwomenquarterly.com

feel free to suggest what you'd like to see more of via the question box! I'd love to hear from you! :)

remember the golden rule!

graggle she/her 🩷💜💙/🖤🩶🤍💜/🖤🩶🤍💚

[vergess]

So! This is tumblr's staff asking for your input on what pride merch you, as a user, are interested in seeing, and which charities you as a user are interested in supporting. This is a public interest question.

It is not, as far as I can tell, a request for free labour. Hence the addition at the end about wanting to explore distribution with tumblr's existing artists.

Don't get all Fucking Weird about this. If you have an opinion, share it politely. Remember that there are human people who have to read your messages and turn them into useable information. If your opinion is "I would rather not see this post" you can always unfollow me instead of being mean to people paid to take it with a smile.

So, all that out of the way!!!!

Pride shoelaces are a must. Maybe the kind that you don't have to tie, as a nod to Queer Wrath Month also being Disability Pride Month. There's lots of variety in no-tie laces, but I personally like the ones with the coil and the ones with the lock:

One benefit of the locking kind is, the lock and tab can be different colors/designs from the main lace, eg a rainbow lace with a tumblr blue lock.

A quick search here on tumblr turned up creator @robynochs's pride shoelaces from last year, which may be a good starting point too!

Heres a tip: Do not make limited edition pride stuff in the tumblr shop! I know June is coming up, But if your gonna add pride stuff actually give it a lot of thought, Come up with the designs, Maybe make some subtle pride for people to buy who don't want their parents to know? That'd be cool! But don't make it a limited time thing, A lot of people see it as people using a money grabber to take our cash then we wait for another 11 months

I think it'd be cool to have pride merch, But only if its well thought out. You should ask the community and make polls about it, See what we all think! It should be like that for every merch piece honestly, Then we can help you mold it into something the community will genuinely like and buy

Please Please Please help me with this. I've been wanting to make Pride stuff for a while but this is one area I don't have any experience with and I really want to do it right. Can you help me out? What can we make that is meaningful and respectful? I don't want this to be a cash grab, something we all feel icky about. I want this to be something that brings us all closer together and make merch that means something. Also would it make sense to donate a portion of the sales to a charity. If so, which one. I would love to do some good with sales of this merch but I didn't want it to see like a marketing tactic. Please share this with your friends. I usually promote posts like this to get more visibility but I don't want the hate that I usually get to transfer over to any of you or this initiative.

Edit: I'd love to collaborate with tumblr artists/store owners on this. We could sell Pride stuff they've already made or make new stuff. Send people my way if you think they'd be interested.

[genderoutlaws]

Bisexuality & Discrimination, a 1985 article by activist Lani Ka’ahumanu (co-founder of the Safer Sex Sluts) featured in Vol. 3 No. 6 of Bi Women Quarterly

[bi-trans-alliance]

You can get pins, flags, & other pride merch at BiProducts! Proceeds support Bi Women Quarterly. Shipping in the US is FREE for all 53 items! 🌈

[lyricdissonance]

did you know there’s an etsy store run by bisexual activist robyn ochs that supports bi women quarterly, the oldest running publication for bisexual women? i didn’t know until today, so if you want to buy some cool pins and support a cool organization, check this out!

[not-xpr-art]

This artwork is going to be featured in the next publication of Bi Women Quarterly which is super exciting!!

(link to their website is here btw!)

Hell hath no fury like a woman!

(10/2022)

a pen drawing representing my feelings surrounding the fight of feminism across the world over this year...

the reference image I used was from these very invasive but powerful photos of Algerian women during the Algerian War in the 60's taken by Marc Garanger, which I feel adds to my intentions of this piece...

I can't give these women their respect or privacy back, all I can do is channel their anger and pain into this art to represent all women who have had their rights eroded!