Posts tagged community
402 - Looking Back on the Polyamorous Commune (with authors Glen Olson and Terry Lee Brussels)
402 - Looking Back on the Polyamorous Commune (with authors Glen Olson and Terry Lee Brussels)

Glen Olson and Terry Lee Brussels, authors of the book "Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement," join us for a deep discussion about their book, the history of polyamory, influences from literature and the idea of a utopian society, and more.

Glen Olson is an author and historian of polyamory communities in America. He is a retired fire captain, paramedic, and technical writer. Over the years he has made presentations to colleges and science fiction conventions on the subject of open relationships and polyamory. Find more about Glen at glenolson.org.

Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers is an author and hypnotherapist, helping clients with everything from intimacy without jealousy to spiritual growth and poly relationship coaching. Terry co-founded Live the Dream, an education and support group for people interested in alternative lifestyles, cooperative living, open relationships and group marriage.

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PodcastMultiamorypolyamory, commune, history of polyamory, book, community, primary, secondary, tertiary
381 - OPEN with William Winters
381 - OPEN with William Winters

Today we're interviewing William Winters, who is on the board of directors for OPEN (Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-monogamy). William Winters is a seasoned digital campaign strategist for progressive organizations and causes, and a leader in the Bay Area’s polyamorous and sex-positive communities. He is also the founder of Bonobo Network, a sex-positive, consent-focused, power-aware community, and the founder of Express Yourself, a quarterly gathering uniting people of color in celebrations of the erotic. He has been featured in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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PodcastMultiamoryWilliam Winters, OPEN, ENM, politics, community, polyamory
304 - Community Diversity and Tokenism with Crystal Byrd Farmer
304 - Community Diversity and Tokenism with Crystal Byrd Farmer

Crystal Byrd Farmer, a polyamorous writer and speaker from North Carolina. She is the website editor for Black & Poly and a board member for the Foundation of Intentional Communities. This week, she's joining us to talk about her book The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization and to allow us to pick her brain about diversity, tokenism, relationships, and more.

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PodcastMultiamorytokenism, diversity, racism, community, discrimination
137 - Intersectionality and Polyamorous Communities (with therapist Ruby Bouie Johnson)
137 - Intersectionality and Polyamorous Communities (with therapist Ruby Bouie Johnson)

We're very pleased to speak with Ruby Bouie Johnson, sex therapist and founder of PolyDallas Millennium, an annual symposium of presentations and workshops on polyamory with a focus on centering people of color, queer, and gender fluid voices. Ruby shares with us her thoughts on the need for an intersectional focus in poly communities, handling tokenism, and the value that a polyamory- and kink-friendly therapist can bring to a client who may be monogamous or vanilla.

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PodcastJase Lindgrenintersectionality, community, tokenism, race, gender, therapy, kink, black, people of color, ruby johnson, ruby bouie johnson, polydallas millennium
89 - Make Poly Great Again
89 - Make Poly Great Again

This week, the Multiamory crew is pissed off. The current political climate has inspired us to vent about a number of topical things that get under our skin: toxic masculinity, sexual harassment, the alt right, and more. In particular, we examine how the polyamorous community is not immune to these things, as well as addressing what steps everyone can take to turn things around.

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PodcastJase Lindgrenmasculinity, sexual harassment, rape culture, politics, community, predators