dear bi men: a black man’s perspective on power, consent, breaking down binaries, and combati ng erasure

＂An unapologetic guide for readers who are Black, masc, and bi-unlearning biphobia, coming out, combatting erasure, and embodying your whole self＂--

J.R. Yussuf is the 1st place winner of the Reviewers Choice Award in the self-help category for The Other F Word: Forgiveness. Yussuf created the Twitter hashtag #BisexualMenSpeak (Human Rights Campaign, Cassius, Bi.org) for bisexual+ men and masculine identified folks to have the space to speak for themselves and talk about how being bisexual+ impacts the way they move through the world, and maintains a YouTube channel devoted to self-improvement, emotional intelligence and bisexuality. Yussuf’s writing has appeared in the anthologies Best Bi Short Stories: Bisexual Fiction, finalist for a 2014 Lambda Literary Award and a 2014 Rainbow Award, and Double Consciousness: An Autoethnographic Guide To My Black American Existence, as well as Men’s Health, Thrive Global, Black Youth Project, Wear Your Voice Magazine, Queerty, Queer Majority, Positively Positive, The Good Men Project, Escarp, Instigatorzine, and The CultureLP.