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Can’t wait for this book to be out in the world so all of you can read it! There will be a full review in this month’s Bi Pod Bulletin, but the tl;dr is that this sapphic love story is bringing laughs and heartache and so.much.tension! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Out on January 24th!! Thanks to #netgalley and @littlebrown for the early access! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnk5yJXLbuD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
If you’ve listened to the show, you know we love talking about music. Since it’s difficult to include music in the podcast, we decided to build it into our Patreon! Anyone who signs up for $6/month gets access to a private, curated playlist every month. This month we've pulled together songs that make us think of queer celebration. We're imagining hosting a dance party with all of you, basking in the glow of bisexual lighting. We’re so excited to hear what you think! 💿💿💿 #patreon #patreoncreator #bi #bipride #bipride🌈 #bipride💖💜💙 #playlistcurator #playlist #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtqia #lgbtpride #lgbtcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CeXQDxKps25/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
If you’ve listened to the show, you know we love talking about music. Since it’s difficult to include music in the podcast, we decided to build it into our Patreon! Anyone who signs up for $6/month gets access to a private, curated playlist every month. This month we've pulled together songs that make us think of queer celebration. We're imagining hosting a dance party with all of you, basking in the glow of bisexual lighting. We’re so excited to hear what you think! 💿💿💿 #patreon #patreoncreator #bi #bipride #bipride🌈 #bipride💖💜💙 #playlistcurator #playlist #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq🌈 #lgbtqia #lgbtpride #lgbtcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/CeXPFq_Jgd5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Ta-da!!! The Bi Pod is now on @patreon, which means you can help support the show and get more involved in the process! In today’s episode we get into the different tiers and what we hope this will make possible. If you sign up as a patron you can get goodies like stickers, a special monthly playlist, bonus episodes, photos of @ginjthedog and even a custom poem written by @christina.leigh.brown! Our goal is continue to making the Patreon (and the show!) better and better, and we’ll definitely be looking for opinions and insights from the community to help us do that. This a great way be part of our growth! An extra special thanks to everyone who has already signed up! Thank you for holding out your arms to catch us while we make a big leap. 💖💜💙 #patreon #patreoncreator #newpatreon #podcastersofinstagram #podcastersofpatreon https://www.instagram.com/p/CeUQjz8P0_Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Happy Pride! You are queer enough. You are welcome and loved and so full of possibility. 🏳️🌈 We’re excited to celebrate with you by releasing 3 episodes this month! The new season kicks off tomorrow and includes some exciting news 😁😍🥳 https://www.instagram.com/p/CeRCUcUr0hY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Our new season starts on Thursday and includes an extra special announcement! 📣 📣 📣 Get ready! https://www.instagram.com/p/CeQDJMeLFxY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Y’all, not only is Christina’s poetry collection out, it’s the #3 new release in LGBTQ+ Poetry!! 🏳️🌈 If you want to snag a copy, search for ‘Girl Teeth’ in the books category on Amazon. 📲🧍🏼♀️🦷 Not ready to buy but still want to support the book? You can add it to your To-Read pile on Goodreads and put it on your Amazon wishlist! Congratulations @christina.leigh.brown for all your hard work on this beautiful book! #poetry #poetrycommunity #lgbtqpoetry #bipride🌈 #bipride💖💜💙 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd6vyJtvioy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Hey friends, Chelsee here. I’m watching #downtonabbey right now and I really feel like O’Brien and Thomas are *the definition* of queer platonic (including a screen grab of the queer platonic Wikipedia page if you’re unfamiliar, but I’d encourage you to do a Google!). They scheme and smoke and just like… love each other and hatching nefarious domestic plots together. They are the worst and truly I adore them for it. I love stories with relationships that exist outside of the cookie cutter that society offers us; if you have any faves, please send them my way! #queerplatonic #queeritall https://www.instagram.com/p/CdSHvqfOS2s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
[Image description. Image one: The cover of The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore; an illustration of a girl embracing a boy, her head resting on his shoulder. The background and boy are in various shades of blue. The girl’s skin and the leaves surrounding them have a pink hue to them. The title is large and yellow at the bottom, and the author’s name is small and white at the top.
Image two: The cover of All of the Above by Juno Dawson; a pink, yellow, and blue background and an illustration of two girls and a boy lying down. Their skin, hair, and clothes are all various shades of pink, yellow, and blue. The author’s name at the top and the title at the bottom are white.
Image three: The cover of In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens; two boys facing each other, holding onto rope on a boat. The sky behind them is pink and yellow, the ocean blue. The title is large at the top, the author’s name smaller underneath it, both in black. End description.]
pansexual books with pansexual covers!!!! 🥺😍💗💛💙
Are Books with Pan Rep Popular? (and how often is the pan rep talked about?)
Last year a book with canon pan rep got quite popular, but the pan rep was rarely brought up, but when it was, it was mislabeled as bi. This happens a lot, and it got me wondering how many books with pan rep could be considered “popular”, and how often the pan rep is talked about in comparison to how often the book is talked about.
So I took to Goodreads. I don’t know if there’s a consensus on what constitutes a “popular” book, but I decided at least 10,000 ratings. The pan rep I’m including in this is canon (stated in or out of text) pan main characters, love interests, and side characters.
18 books fit this. 5 books are standalones, 2 books are from one duology, 4 books are from one series, and 7 books are from one series. 3 characters are main characters, 2 are love interests, and 5 are side characters. All but 2 books have out of text confirmation.
I break it down by ratings; highest to lowest. I include date, ratings, reviews, reviews that mention pan rep. (Some might argue older books will have more ratings, but while the ratings consistently descend, the publication dates do not consistently ascend.)
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (2007) has 1m+ ratings. 66k+ reviews, 1 mentions pan.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (2015) has 557k+ ratings. 64k+ reviews, 13 mention pan.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (2020) has 408k+ ratings. 63k+ reviews, 113 mention pan.
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (2016) has 369k+ ratings. 44k+ reviews, 3 mention pan.
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare (2014) has 337k+ ratings. 25k+ reviews, 1 mentions pan.
Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire (2016) has 89k+ ratings. 15k+ reviews, 5 mention pan.
The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare (2014) has 81k+ ratings. 7k+ reviews, 1 mentions pan.
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli (2017) has 71k+ ratings. 9k+ reviews, 300+ mention pan.
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy by Cassandra Clare (2016) has 55k+ ratings. 6k+ reviews, 1 mentions pan.
Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare (2020) has 65k+ ratings. 10k+ reviews, 0 mention pan.
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (2016) has 51k+ ratings. 10k+ reviews, 25 mention pan.
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (2016) has 38k+ ratings. 6k+ reviews, 9 mention pan.
The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare (2019) has 36k+ ratings. 5k+ reviews, 9 mention pan.
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (2018) has 29k+ ratings. 5k+ reviews, 1 mentions pan.
Ghosts of the Shadow Market by Cassandra Clare (2019) has 27k+ ratings. 3k+ reviews, 3 mention pan.
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (2019) has 25k+ ratings. 5k+ reviews, 25 mention pan.
Solitaire by Alice Oseman (2014) has 18k+ ratings. 3k+ reviews, 4 mention pan.
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (2020) has 16k+ ratings. 3k+ reviews, 3 mention pan.
Clearly, pan rep just isn’t talked about or celebrated, even when the book is “popular”. Even with The Upside of Unrequited having the highest number of reviews that acknowledge the pan rep, it’s still under 5% of all the reviews.
I’ve heard “you can’t blame people for saying a pan character is bi if it wasn’t said in text” before, but when you stop treating bi (or “bi/pan”; the majority of the pan mentions for some of these books are “bi/pan”) as the default mspec identity and stop labeling based on assumptions instead of actually checking for confirmation, this “unavoidable” pan erasure goes away.
With The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, both Addie and Henry are canonically pan, but neither is stated on page. Yet in the reviews that mention pan, the understanding is Henry is pan and Addie is bi. Seemingly because Henry’s attraction is described as not being about gender (paraphrasing) and Addie’s is described as being toward any gender (paraphrasing).
This conclusion drawn by readers shows that mspec expression in general is automatically bi, but when specifically described as “regardless of gender”, then it’s more acceptable to suggest pan. Aside from that being restrictive, there isn’t a single, universal/innate description for each label.
Since I checked how often pan rep is acknowledged in “popular books that happen to have pan rep”, I checked the same for “books that are popular for having pan rep”. For this, I Googled “books with pansexual characters”. The pan rep is on-page in all but 2 books, main characters in 9 books, and love interests in 2.
Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate (2016) has 1,130 reviews, 159 mention pan.
Ship It by Brita Lundin (2018) has 865 reviews, 50 mention pan.
In the Ravenous Dark by A.M. Strickland (2021) has 718 reviews, 201 mention pan.
Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan (2020) has 2k+ ratings and 572 reviews; 27 mention pan.
Final Draft by Riley Redgate (2018) has 481 reviews, 81 mention pan.
Miss Meteor by Anna-Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejia (2020) has 467 reviews, 92 mention pan.
The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde (2018) has 463 reviews, 42 mention pan.
Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer (2020) has 390 reviews, 20 mention pan.
Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler (2016) has 218 reviews, 62 mention pan.
The Melody of You and Me by M. Hollis (2017) has 175 reviews, 55 mention pan.
Soft on Soft by Mina Waheed (2018) has 155 reviews, 24 mention pan.
While the percentage of reviews that acknowledge the pan rep in these books is higher than the “popular” books, it’s still not even half of the reviews. Even the books that are consistently recommended for pan rep, some of which have been for years, significantly lack reviews that discuss said pan rep.
How can a book be widely known and recommended for pan rep, and still lack acknowledgment and conversations about the pan rep?
Why is pan book rep in general just not talked about?
So @catboy-jesus said it would be interesting to see how often the pan rep in books that are recommended for having pan rep is talked about in reviews compared to that of books recommended for other queer rep. So let’s do it.
Note: when word searching reviews on Goodreads, 300 reviews is the maximum it will show, and it doesn’t say how many more there are, either.
For gay and bisexual, the 10 books for each all have 300+ reviews that mention the gay and bisexual rep. Total number of book reviews range from 2k-69k (gay) and 2k-81k (bisexual).
For trans/nonbinary (I could only find 1 nonbinary book often recommended), all have 300+ or almost 300 (2 have 205 and 283) reviews that mention the trans/nonbinary rep. Total book reviews range from 700-9k.
For lesbian, all have 300+ or almost 300 (6 books have 222-285) reviews that mention the lesbian rep. Total book reviews range from 1k-4k.
Overall, pan is the least acknowledged. None of the 10 pan books have 300+ reviews that mention the pan rep and the lowest number of reviews for the other queer rep books is still higher than the highest number of reviews for the pan rep books.
I really wish Goodreads didn't have a 300 limit, as it would be infinitely more helpful to see the exact number instead of “300+”, particularly in the case of books with tens of thousands of reviews.
For all the other queer books and their specific number of reviews:
So appreciate this deep dive and all the things it’s given me to mull over (also all the books to check out!)
I love being bisexual x0x
Daily reminder that bisexuality has always included attraction to trans and non-binary individuals. Daily reminder that bisexuals can have preferences. Daily reminder that bisexuals are not "half gay half straight." Daily reminder that bisexuals are kickass.
Wanted to share the relationship smorgasbord that Christina and I used in the DTR episode!
sapphic solidarity <3
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On this week’s episode, we chat with @biandprejudice founder Anna Kochetkova! If you want to hear about her experiences as a bisexual person, moving from Russia to Australia, and her forthcoming book, find us wherever you listen to podcasts! Anna’s book is available for preorder now.
Being bi is a gift
Being bi is a gift! Being bi is a gift! I spent so long telling myself otherwise and I look back at my past self now and all the pain he was in and I want to tell him that being bi isn’t a curse! I want to tell him that he doesn’t have to lock part of himself away to be loved or to be happy! Being bi is a fucking gift!!!!!!
Reblogging this every single time I come across biphobia to remind both myself and others that not only is there nothing wrong with being bi, it is a wonderful thing to be!
listen….. ladies…… my advice to you is, do not agonize over the specific percentages of your attraction to women, men, and variously presenting nonbinary people……… do not agonize over whether your attraction is “real” or “just comphet.”
become ruthlessly joy-sensitive. get in touch with your own experiences of embodied desire and pleasure, in particular moments as they arise, not as hypothetical states. find ways to safely experiment! you do not need a label to be fulfilled. just kiss people in real life and get off the internet.
RUTHLESSLY JOY-SENSITIVE
