The Bi Pod - All Things Bisexual

In this week’s episode, Chelsee and Christina chat about the future of the show, the year ahead, and the queer content they’re excited for in 2022 (an especially bisexual year!). If you have any recommendations for queer films, shows, books, music, or any of the other categories we mention, please send them our way! If you’d like to be a guest on the show, fill out our form!  The Bi Pod Guest...

In this week’s episode, Chelsee and Christina look back at the queer highlights of 2021, a year that allegedly happened. We talk about the queer experiences, music, books, and tv that got us through last year. You can find the queer bops we mentioned in this episode here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/62V3XWuvXULDqw71N5ZfQ5?si=3a23e259f5a449d4 If you’d like to be a guest on the show, fill out...

This week Christina and Chelsee are talking about strategies for taking care of yourself during the holidays - whether you'll be spending it with your family of origin or in another way. Also, The Bi Pod is going on holiday! New episodes will be back in 2022. In the meantime, don't miss The Bi Pod Bulletin, the bi weekly Bi Pod newsletter.  Subscribe to the newsletter: https://buttondown.emai...

In this week’s episode, Chelsee and Christina talk about care dynamics in relationships and growing up. Also, Christina reveals that she can’t do math. The meme that inspired this discussion:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcngw5K8Xt/?utm_medium=copy_link Veronica Roth on First Draft:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/throwback-series-55165755 Sonya Renee Taylor video  https://www.insta...

On this week's episode, Chelsee and Christina chat with Anna Kochetkova, author of the book Bi & Prejudice and founder of the @biandprejudice Instagram community. You can preorder Anna's book here:  bit.ly/MyBiBook . You can find the Bi-ble essay collections that Anna recommended through Monstrous Regiment: https://www.monstrous-regiment.com/shop/new-testimonials . She also recommended th...

In this week's episode, Chelsee and Christina use a relationship smorgasbord to define the relationship. Forget will they/won't they drama, what we're really interested in is "how, and how much, will they?"  There are a lot of of relationship smorgasbords and relationship anarchy tools out there, but here is the one we used: https://www.phoenyxenterprising.com/relating.html Subscribe to the newsle...

This episode is about the very bisexual book "Red, White and Royal Blue"! It was originally recorded for Chelsee's solo project, Casually Obsessed . It's a spoiler free discussion, so you can listen even if you haven't read the book!  In the episode we talk about: Avoiding things that are popular; Our theories on why straight women like content about gay men; Quintessential queer experiences;...

In this week's episode, Chelsee and Christina talk about the novel Catherine House and queer representation in general. How much bisexual representation is enough bisexual representation? We don’t know! LAMBDA Literary Book Finalists:  https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/ Here's a brief review of Catherine House:  https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/elisabeth-thoma...

In this week's episode, Chelsee and Christina announce their new newsletter, The Bi Pod Bulletin! They also discuss problematic bisexual representation and what they want (and don't want) to do about it.  Subscribe to the newsletter: https://buttondown.email/TheBiPod  Follow us on Tumblr: https://thebipod.tumblr.com  The ‘queer baiting’ post Chelsee mentioned: https://thebipod.tumbl...

What does a bisexual happy ending look like? What if Christina never has a wife? What if Chelsee can't "win" the relationship game?  In this week's episode Christina and Chelsee talk about breakup art, Olivia Rodrigo, and how they think about their own bisexual happily ever afters.  The perfect Olivia Rodrigo tweet: https://twitter.com/vaberg/status/1395692660699058177?s=20  You can follow us on I...

Chelsee & Christina muse about their anxieties and excitement for what life in a "re-opened" world might look like.  Some things discussed: Have we gotten more queer in the last year?  How do we communicate the ways we've changed?  How do we stay out of the closet after a year of not having to think about the closet much at all? Social anxiety: what if our friends don't want to...

Happy Pride! In this episode, Chelsee and Christina talk about Pride month, queer joy, and resistance. They also tell straight people what to do!  If you're looking for a queer mutual aid group to give to and don't know where to start, this site has a great database!  https://transequality.org/covid19/mutual-aid-and-emergency-funds You can follow us on Instagram @TheBiPod . You can...

On this week’s episode, Chelsee and Christina recommend some awesome queer content for you to check out while The Bi Pod takes a quick break. See you in June! J. Teacake ; Mackenzi Lee's Loki and The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue ; Dickinson ; K. Flay - Four Letter Words ; Pin-up Daddy by Rett Madison; Sir Sly - Loverboy ; Carry On by Rainbow Rowell; Catherine House - our unofficial Bi Pod...

Love it or hate it, 'coming out' is a core part of the queer experience as it exists today. But what if coming out could look different? We're talking about what we hope the future our coming out looks like and what we see in the utopian future of our dreams.  We also discuss how we're feeling now that The Bi Pod is out in the world and people are listening!  Mentioned in this episode: C...

In this episode, Chelsee and Christina chat with their first guest ever, Charli, about the relationship between bisexuality and pansexuality. They also discuss coming out, celebrating queerness, and childhood crushes that foreshadowed their queer futures. Here's what Chelsee was sort-of referencing about Brie Larson possibly being queer . Charli recommends The Prince and the Dressmaker.  You...

We're talking about Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn ! We love this very queer movie and had a lot to say about how it deals with things like bisexuality, misogyny, violence, and fashion. We also talk about comic book movies more broadly (we have some notes) and confusion around why people don't just move out of Gotham city!  This episode is a special cross...

Christina and Chelsee take what turns out to be a very invasive quiz to determine if they're bisexual and talk about bisexual internet culture (does TikTok know you're bi? Are we all robots? Are your pants cuffed?). Links: Allthetests.com: Am I Bisexual, Bi-Curious, Straight Or A Lesbian ?; Ditchthelabel.org: Am I Bisexual? ; pixie-diaries.tumblr.com You can follow us on Instagram @TheBiPod. You c...

In this episode, Chelsee and Christina introduce themselves, talk about their quarantine lives, and discuss their own journeys with bisexuality. If you’d prefer to skip straight to hearing them talk about their bisexual identities, that starts at 19:04. You can follow us on Instagram @TheBiPod. You can email us as thisisthebipod@gmail.com . Transcripts of our episodes are available on our website:...

Get to know The Bi Pod, a queer podcast that centers bisexuality!  The Bi Pod is a podcast about all things bisexual. We are here to talk about our own identities, respond to bisexual represenation in media, and talk to awesome guests about their queer experiences and relationships with bisexuality. We welcome anyone who has any kind of relationship with or curiosity about queerness. We defin...