Literature – Bi Invisibility, Erasure, and Representation

Scholarship on Bisexuality in Children’s Books

“The Case of the Missing Bisexuals: Bisexuality in Books for Young Readers” A 2014 article by B.J. Epstein that illuminates how bisexuality […]

Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature Mollie Blackburn and Caroline Clark have a chapter in this book called “Becoming […]

Bi: the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality This book, written by Julia Shaw and published in 2022, is a somewhat […]

In a study done in 2015, scholar Laura Jiménez catalogued the amount of lesbian and gay characters in award winning YA books […]

My kid is currently in Kindergarten. Though she is advanced in her reading, she has not graduated to YA literature yet. I […]

The absolute absence of bisexual representation in children’s books leaves two gaping holes; there are no mirrors in which young bi readers […]

When I think about banned books, my mind goes to The Strand Bookstore in Manhattan, and their beautiful display of banned books. […]

In the Journal of Children’s Literature, Stephen Adam Crawley did a study about representation of transgender children in picture books. With a […]

The “why” is simple. I am a bisexual woman in a same sex relationship with a bisexual woman, raising an apparently cisgender […]

Another irksome idea that occurs often in television and film, not just in children’s books, is the presence of a lone queer […]