Bisexual – Page 3

Discovering Aromanticism

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:40:56-05:00February 20th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Bisexual|

Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 5 – Previous Posts: Introduction to Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series – The Excitement and Frustration of Being “Alone” – Actual Love – Being Surrounded by Something You’ve Never Quite Understood - On Writing Aromantic Characters in YA by Alison Hi! I saw GayYA's post on Tumblr about people from the arospec sharing our stories and I thought: "Hey, Alison, you're aromantic. You might as well." So, yeah. Here I am. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Alison; I'm a 15 year old cisgendered female. I live in Yorkshire, [...]

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Cover Reveal + Interview: My Year Zero by Rachel Gold

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:41:15-05:00October 13th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Cover Reveal|Tags: Bisexual, Jewish, lesbian, Mental Health|

We're big fans of Rachel Gold's first two books Being Emily and Just Girls... and today, we're thrilled to reveal the cover for her newest book My Year Zero! I am so SO excited to be hosting this cover reveal-- as I read My Year Zero I was filled with an overwhelming desire to make everyone ever in the whole history of ever read this book. Along with the cover reveal, I had the chance to interview Rachel. Below we discuss the diversity within the book, geek culture, narratives in LGBQTIA+ YA and more! I hope by the [...]

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Labels, Erasure, Visibility: A Q&A About (Not) Writing Bi Characters

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:41:18-05:00September 27th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: Bisexual, Representation|

by Corinne Duyvis Identification. Labels. Exploration. These topics are often brought up in YA. Even more so in queer YA: after all, discovering your own identity and who you are or aren’t attracted to is a huge part of many queer kids’ lives. Something that often leads to even more confusion—on all sides—is when someone is attracted to more than one gender. Yes, the “confused bisexual” borders on stereotype, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t occur. I mean, I was super confused about my orientation as a young teenager (which I’ve written about at DiversifYA before) and I [...]

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#BiVisibility

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:41:18-05:00September 26th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Bisexual|

Bisexual Awareness Week Series: Day 6 – Previous Posts: Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series – Bisexuality in YA – On Failing to Recognize Ourselves in Mirrors – The “B” Word – There Once Was a Girl - It’s Not Just a Phase by Sarah Kettles If you’re reading this, there’s no way you don’t know what a ridiculous and problematic and wonderful and frightening and enormously influential thing social media is, particularly in the lives of teenagers, and even more so in the lives of marginalized teenagers. Sites like Tumblr and Twitter and Instagram and my once-beloved LiveJournal [...]

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It’s Not Just a Phase

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:41:18-05:00September 25th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: Bisexual|

Bisexual Awareness Week Series: Day 5 – Previous Posts: Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series – Bisexuality in YA – On Failing to Recognize Ourselves in Mirrors – The “B” Word - There Once Was a Girl by Justina Ireland When I was in high school I used to argue a lot about politics. I was the girl in class who would raise her hand and correct the teacher when they’d say something wrong or just plan biased. This usually exasperated the rest of my classmates. Sometimes I cared. Mostly I didn’t. I thought it was better to be [...]

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There Once Was a Girl

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:41:18-05:00September 24th, 2015|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Bisexual, Representation|

Bisexual Awareness Week Series: Day 4 – Previous Posts: Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series – Bisexuality in YA – On Failing to Recognize Ourselves in Mirrors - The "B" Word by Tristina Wright Once upon a time, there was a college girl very confused about her sexuality, and her best friend was a lesbian. They were the closest of friends and helped each other through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. They were never more than friends, nor did they ever want to be. They were friends and that was special in itself. There’s [...]

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The “B” Word

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:41:18-05:00September 23rd, 2015|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Bisexual, Representation|

Bisexual Awareness Week Series: Day 3 – Previous Posts: Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series – Bisexuality in YA - On Failing to Recognize Ourselves in Mirrors by Camryn Garrett Reading a book is like being sucked into someone else’s world. I’ve learned about other worlds, but also my own through reading. Not only have I discovered that I was struggling with mental illness, but I’ve learned more about other cultures, other thoughts, other places, all in between two covers. But on the other hand, I’m often learning about a specific group of people. It changed between the [...]

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On Failing to Recognize Ourselves in Mirrors

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:41:19-05:00September 22nd, 2015|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Bisexual, LGBTQIA, Representation|

Bisexual Awareness Week Series: Day 1 – Previous Posts: Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series – Bisexuality in YA by Claire Spaulding When I first started brainstorming for this post, I came up with a list of what I want to see in bisexual YA: more badass bisexual ladies going on adventures! Swoon-worthy romance with happy endings! Bisexual pirates! Seriously, guys, where are my bisexual YA pirate novels?! But then I moved beyond what I want in bisexual YA right now, and I started thinking about what I wanted in bisexual YA back when I really, deeply needed [...]

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Bisexuality in YA

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:41:27-05:00September 21st, 2015|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: Bisexual, Representation|

Bisexual Awareness Week Series: Day 1 – Previous Posts: Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series by Shira Glassman Climbing the Date Palm by Shira Glassman (Prizm Books, 2014) When I was a little girl, it took me until I was fourteen to realize that the way I liked girls counted as that way. Looking back, it was pretty obvious; I was obsessed with the cute blonde detective on Mathnet at age six and the Egyptian princess in The Ten Commandments at seven; at nine I talked about boobs an awful lot (my name for them, at [...]

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Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series

By Marilla|2016-05-24T14:49:19-05:00September 21st, 2015|Categories: Archive, Updates and Announcements|Tags: Bisexual|

Welcome to GayYA's Bisexual Awareness Week Series! Bisexual Awareness Week is a yearly event that “exists to help draw attention to the public policy concerns of bisexual people while also celebrating the great resiliency of bisexual culture and community.” (Find out more about it here http://www.bisexualweek.com/about/ and keep an eye on the #BiWeek hashtag!) During Bisexual Awareness Week, we’ll feature posts from bisexual/biromantic contributors on various issues surrounding bisexuality in YA. We have a FANTASTIC line up of posts, and we're so excited to share them with you all! The Awareness Week series are something we've started doing [...]

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