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This essay offers a narrative reading of the representation of bisexuality on One Tree Hill by examining the character Anna Tagaro. Grounding this reading in observations about bisexuality, media representation and adolescent identity formation processes, the essay exposes Anna's representation as both a viable coming out story for an adolescent audience and a systematic erasure of bisexuality as a valid social identity. The displacement of political activism with friend and ally Peyton creates a representation that functions both as liberating and constraining simultaneously. Moreover, Anna's inclusion as the only Latina character in an all white, all heterosexual cast offers an intersectional representation of race and sexual identity. This conflict between progress and constraint in the representation of youth identity choices offers scholars ample data for future studies in teen television and sexuality.Planning ahead for a potential midseason replacement, the Warner Brother's Television Network (WB) developed the dramatic teen soap opera One Tree Hill in 2003. The series chronicles the relational tension between Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan (James Lafferty) Scott, high-school-aged half brothers who cope with the trials and tribulations of teen life, as well as their oppressive, diabolical, basketball obsessed father Dan (Paul Johansson). Since the series was not originally part of the network's plan for that year, it did not receive the same breadth of promotional efforts as other series and came in under the radar of many viewers and critics. However, the series benefited from star Chad Michael Murray, who

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In this essay, I interrogate the role time plays in the three most common social support messages I received post-pregnancy loss. In doing so, I illustrate how our most common "social support" responses to pregnancy loss, while uttered from caring, intentional places of support, can actually serve to marginalize and invalidate experiences of pregnancy loss.