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sorry that my identity transcends your heteronormative ideas of sexuality.

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Thanks, Lauren

"[T]he mental health impact of having people repeatedly question bisexual identity and/or saying bisexual identity is not real or ‘can be changed,’ has a similar impact on people’s mental health as ex-gay therapy does. Why? Because it’s the same thing, only specifically being done to bi people...

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Happy World Book Day! (As if we need a special dayto love books, but let’s just go with it.) Celebrate with Maira Kalman’s illustrated wisdom. 

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Library Literature Worth Reading

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!!!   We can’t believe it’s been a year here at Bisexual Books!   So help us celebrate our first blogiversary by winning free stuff!   

First prize is a package of four queer books (Different Slopes, Bi Lives, The Mermaid of Chelsea Creek, and Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems), an awesome Danial Anzola t-shirt (XL), an Excluded card autographed by Julia Serano, plus a bunch of bookmarks, stickers, and buttons!

Second prize is a bisexual ebook of your choice from Amazon.com (up to $10)!

Third prize is a queer comics pack with Fake and Lavender Menace, a neato comic book-sized bag from Northwest Press, plus a bunch of bookmarks, stickers, and buttons!   This includes a button that says “Superheros Do It With Capes” hehe

Now for the rules part:

You can reblog as many times as you’d like! 

This is a reblog contest (so likes don’t count)

You must be following us

This giveaway is open to our international friends!

The contest ends April 13th at 5pm CST

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If you acknowledge that you have the potential to be attracted – romantically and/or sexually – to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree, you might be a bisexual. (Credit: Robyn Ochs)

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Read more at Notes from a Dog Walker and remember: be responsible, respectful, and safe! Everyone has the right to walk in public, with or without a canine companion, and not be approached by a dog.

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I love that the tables kind of look like pianos

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Listening to records in the Music Department, 1955.

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Oh Glenn Gould, you wacky fellow

Gordon Parks: Glenn Gould, New York, 1956 

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Yet another fabulous Gordon Parks photo

A WOMAN & HER DOG | 1943

A woman and her dog in Harlem, NY, 1943. Gordon Parks. Library of Congress

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DEFINITION OF BISEXUALITY: I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted - romantically and/or sexually - to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree. ~ from “Selected Quotes” by Robyn Ochs

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Even better: try saying same-gender marriage or marriage between two person of similar genders. Let's not conflate gender with biological sex, shall we? 

There is no gay marriage

“If you make a point to say ‘equal marriage’ or ‘same-sex marriage’ instead of ‘gay marriage,’ you might be a bisexual.”

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Brainz

When things fall out of my brain, where do they go? And how to get my brain to cooperate more consistently? 

I'm pretty frustrated with my brain today, but not sure what to do about it. Striving for responsible, honest, self-compassionate actions here. 

Argh. 

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New Who as dogs. Still need part 5 of 11 and the beginning of 12, but I haven’t developed the dog for 12 yet. 

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Minneapolis City Directories, 1859-1922

Six more Minneapolis city directories have been digitized and added to the library’s website. Added were 1865 and 1918-1922. The digital directories are freely available to anyone, anywhere. Search or browse directories online.

Interested in who lived at your address in 1922? Want to know more about what businesses occupied the old storefront down the street? Wondering where your great grandmother lived when she moved to the city? Find out in the city directories!

Preservation photocopies were also made for each volume. These and later city directories are available in Special Collections. Microfiche and print copies are also available in the Minneapolis Central Library History and Social Sciences department on the 4th floor.