The B-Side
The B-Side is Perth’s very own bi+ community radio show, every Wednesday Night from 9pm on DRN1 Radio. Join our hosts Ares, Bridget and Marie as they dive into what it means to be multi-gender attracted as they welcome local guests each week into deep and lighthearted conversations that matter most to bi+ folk. The B-Side broadcasts from Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth), in partnership with Bi+ Community Perth, to amplify local voices under the bi+ umbrella (including bisexual, pansexual, flexible, fluid, queer, curious and more) including people of all genders and celebrating intersectionality across the transgender, asexual (ace), agender and intersex communities and how bi+ folk fit into the broader LGBTQIA+ community. Join us for discussions on identity, culture, personal stories and the power of community, and keep up with what’s on in Perth.
Episodes you may like:
This week on The B-Side, hosts Marie, Bridget, and Ares sit down with Sky — a proud bi+ and nonbinary advocate — to explore the powerful intersection between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), sexuality, and gender identity. Together, they unpack how OCD can weaponise doubt, how compulsory heteronormativity complicates self-understanding, and why so many bi+, pan, and nonbinary people are overlooked in both queer and mental-health spaces.
From Sexual Orientation OCD (SO-OCD) to Gender Identity OCD, Sky shares their lived experience of learning to live with uncertainty and rebuild self-trust. Through open conversation, the team discusses the importance of language, the danger of misdiagnosis, and the courage it takes to find authenticity in a world that demands certainty.
Key takeaway: Being bi+, pan, or nonbinary with OCD isn’t a contradiction — it’s complexity. When we make space for uncertainty, we make space for authenticity.
This week on The B-Side, Marie, Slaine and Ares are joined by someone who helped shape the very beginnings of our community: Dr Misty Farquhar (they/them), bi+ and non-binary advocate, educator, CEO of Rainbow Futures and founding organiser of Bi+ Community Perth. Together, we journey through Misty’s personal story — from creating spaces for bi+ people a decade ago, to becoming one of WA’s leading voices in LGBTQIA+ human rights. We reflect on the wins since marriage equality, the reforms still unfinished, and what it feels like to carry both the weight and the hope of this work. Misty breaks down the big political changes happening right now in WA, including updates to reproductive rights, surrogacy access, discrimination protections and the continuing push to ban conversion practices. We also talk Walkern Wirin, community power, visibility, and what it means to organise with courage in a shifting political landscape. If you care about queer rights in WA — or you’re simply here for authentic conversations about identity, leadership and belonging — this is an episode you won’t want to miss.
This episode of The B-Side is all about breaking down the misconception that bisexuality is “binary.” We explore how bi+ has always included attraction beyond just “man” or “woman” — embracing non-binary, trans, intersex, and gender-diverse experiences.
From the Kinsey scale to personal stories, we talk about where we each sit on the spectrum, the many forms of attraction (romantic, emotional, platonic, aesthetic, intellectual, sensual), and why language like “bi+” is more inclusive. We also challenge stereotypes like being “half and half” and instead celebrate the full, beautiful diversity of bi+ identities.
This is an episode that truly tick(l)es all the boxes — about love, identity, and attraction beyond the binary.
Got a question for the show email thebside@drn1.com.au