Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC of this book. All opinions are my own.

I've read some bad books about bisexuality. I've read a lot of poorly researched, uninformed nonsense about my community that still got published because the author was a tenured professor somewhere. Bi by Julia Shaw was none of that. 

This book isn't fully comprehensive, but it does its best to be an introduction to bisexual issues that will be useful to newly out bi people as well as family members and allies. 

I consider myself fairly well-informed about bisexual issues, so I already knew most of the information in this book, but I did still learn some interesting things, especially in the history section. I also think that the bibliography at the end of each chapter is a really useful starting point for independent research on any of the topics that Shaw discusses. 

This book is definitely coming from a white lens and aimed at an American and Western European audience, which means that there are some holes, but I think that Shaw did a better job at discussing intersectionality than the authors of most books like this do. I wish there were more discussion of the way that colonialism caused homophobia and transphobia in much of the world, but I did appreciate the critiques of homonationalism and of western approaches to immigration and people seeking asylum. 

Overall, while it had its holes, I highly recommend this book as a great starting point for nonfiction about bisexuality. 

Please note that it contains discussions of homophobia, biphobia, racism, misogyny, and various other bigotries and oppressions.