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Kind words
“Bi & Prejudice is a very insightful and relatable journey put down on paper. This is a short read, but there is a lot to take in and think about, so I enjoyed taking this book at a steady but sure pace. Anna doesn’t hold back on speaking her truths, which becomes more and more clear as the book draws to a close. I found her story to be relatable not only to my sexuality but my gender identity — something the book doesn’t touch upon much.
I recommend this book for those who need more insight into current LGBTQIA+ life and its problems, or for fellow queers who want to dive deep into someone else’s story in order to help unfold their own. I did find a lot of points got reiterated again and again, but that’s not to any detriment — if anything, it only made it more and more relatable as a bisexual non‑binary person who finds themselves saying the same things again and again just to remain visible.
Highly recommended — loved every page, and especially loved the poems that can be found throughout. A true expression of personal truths.”
~ Matt, reader.
*****
“Beautifully poetic and heartfelt, I earmarked more pages in this short book than any I’ve read in 10 years. Anna’s deeply personal insights are just that — deeply personal and explicitly recognised as such. Yet she articulates experiences here that resonate with my own and presents them in such a way that makes me feel more ready to face my history and my future. Thank you.”
~ Jake, reader.
*****
“A soul‑stirring book that empathetically navigates the socio‑sexual morphology of bisexuality, through which we carve out our unique niche to produce meaning from our lived, embodied experience. The writer pensively emotes her bisexual landscape, which is relatable to my own sexual and identitarian positioning, weaving a collective consciousness of shared trauma, loneliness, stigma, and the unflinching jeering remarks we endure — all to foster a common base for rewriting our social script for visibility and solidarity.”
~ Victor, reader.
*****
“I liked a lot because even though I don’t agree with some of the ideas, Anna is great at highlighting many of the inertial ideas we inherit from our cultural background and upbringing.
She makes a point of highlighting that the book is about her personal journey and not any kind of map or guideline on how to be bisexual. However, her commentary and observations are insightful and on point, and her gentle narrative invites the reader to think and feel our way around the topic, and not simply accept what we know as it was told to us.
I felt that the book spent too much time stressing disclaimers at the beginning. It seems to do this often in other chapters as well, where it circles several times around the same point. I would have liked it to move on sooner, but a friend told me that this sort of thing is important to people in the LGBTQIA+ community. I don’t belong to it, so I’ll take their word.
But once it does move forward, I liked the way it highlights how mainstream culture is full of rigid ideas that we incorporate into our psyche without questions. My favourite passage was everything between pages 84 and 85 and I loved Anna’s vivid imagery, which drives the point home both succinctly and in a colourful way. Overall, it was well worth reading.”
~ R, reader.