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“För mig går det inte att separera kön och sexualitet, det är därför jag kallar mig själv queer. Att vara bög och flata samtigt. Jag hatar dikotomin, jag hatar det binära, jag hatar att behöva välja.”

Tim

“Thinking back on moments growing up. Watching movies and feeling something towards men and women. Any sexual activity irrespective of gender made me tingle. Using a pillow to prepare the hiding. Knowing it was something I needed to hide.”

Chanterelle

“He cried, but effected a fake whimper. I wanted to hold him, cuddle him, kiss his mouth, his cheeks, his eyelids. I wanted to tell her off in soft tones, then kiss her lips kiss her breasts, her nipples and even that strange slit, somehow glistening between her bush in the last rosey heat of the setting sun…”

Peter

“Jag ser mig själv som den utsatta som måste hitta min egen väg. Jag har anpassat hur jag behöver bete mig för att leva ett bra liv. Det liv som anses bra, är inte alltid bra för mig. Det sätt jag vill leva på stöds inte alltid. Eftersom det inte finns någon ‘stabilitet’ omkring mig, måste jag skapa min stabilitet.”

Cahelfrütz

Authors:

Tim

Chanterelle

Peter

Cahelfrütz

Cytrus

Tim

is a queer non-binary person in his early 20s based in Sweden

Manchester United football kit

Duvor och rökande män

Det är därför jag kallar mig själv queer

Kontaktannons

Chanterelle

is a bisexual cis man in his/their early 30s based in Sweden

My purple jacket and faded red nails

I need to be me, I need to be free. Now

Drunk boys

Traces

Peter

is a bisexual / switch cis man in his early 50s based in Australia

Pygmalion

Awakening

Cahelfrütz

is a norm-critical cis man in his early 50s based in Sweden

To find the human I want to be

Måste fortsätta min egen väg

That’s how my life continues to develop

Han uppskattade mig som människa

Den kultur jag befann mig i

Miljoner ljus brinner för den hjälp som inte finns

Cytrus

is a bisexual cis man in his late 20s based in Belgium

Percentages

My second first time

Green stories

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Bi+ Men's Digital Life Writing Archive

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The archive is part of the doctoral research project “Bi+ mäns digital life writing: levda erfarenheter och kulturella föreställningar” led by Mateusz Miesiac — a doctoral candidate in gender studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm. The project has the approval of the Swedish Ethical Review Authority.

If you want to join the archive, use the contact form or email mateusz.miesiac@sh.se.