Bisexual Awareness Week
Let’s Get Loud, Let’s Get Reading
Welcome to Bisexual Awareness Week (aka #BiWeek), September 16–23. This week leads right up to Bisexual Visibility Day on the 23rd, and it’s all about turning the volume up on bisexual joy, bisexual struggle, and bisexual reality.
Because let’s be honest: bi+ folks are everywhere. We’re the largest group under the LGBTQ+ umbrella—and yet we’re still constantly erased or told to “pick a side.” Even inside queer spaces, bisexuality gets doubted or dismissed.
That’s why this week matters. We get loud, we get visible, and we tell our stories.
For me, being bi is a little messy, a little chaotic, and a lot magical.
But most of all, being bi means freedom. Freedom to love expansively. Freedom to exist outside boxes. Freedom to write stories where queer and spiritual people like me finally get the happy endings they deserve.
So during #BiWeek, I celebrate with the things that saved me again and again: books.
Three Book Recs for Bisexual Awareness Week
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi, narrated by Bahni Turpin
This book has been on my reading list forever! This is the week I’ll dive in, I promise. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—so much so her ride-or-die best friend Joy insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. It gets real complicated real quick, they say! The writing is supposed to be poetic and Bahni Turpin is one of my favorite narrators. I’m in!
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar, narrated by Reena Dutt & Shubhangi Karmakar
I haven’t read this YA romance yet, but I hear it’s pure serotonin. Hani is bisexual, but when she comes out to her friends, they don’t believe her because she’s only dated boys. (Sound familiar? Raises hand.) To prove herself, she ropes in Ishu, a no-nonsense academic overachiever, for a fake relationship. Hani and Ishu are the kind of characters I needed when I was younger, and I’m so glad today’s teens get them.
In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae, narrated by Melissa Moran
This cozy small-town romance is on my TBR, but I’ve heard it’s like wrapping yourself in a bisexual pride flag and sipping hot cocoa. It follows Morgan, a down-on-her-luck event planner who returns to her hometown and rekindles sparks with her childhood best friend, Rachel. Please take a second to check out Courtney Kae’s website—it’s too cute!
Why Stories Matter
Here’s the truth: bisexual people are still the most likely to be closeted, the least likely to feel supported, and the most erased in media. That’s why representation in stories matters.
Every book with a bisexual character chips away at the invisibility. Every happily-ever-after whispers: you are real, you are valid, you are loved.
This week, I’ll be celebrating by reading, writing, and refusing to shrink. If you’re bi+ (or bi-questioning, or bi-adjacent), I hope you do the same. Take up space. Share your story. Wave the pink, purple, and blue.
Because visibility doesn’t just happen. We create it—together.
What’s on your #BiWeek reading list? Drop your favorite bisexual romances in the comments—I’m always adding to my TBR.
