KRISTA VARELLA POSELLBOOK CLUB LEAD
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EVITA SAWYERSEvita Sawyers spoke on our De-coupling in Polyamory and Long Distance in Polyamory panels, and was the facilitator of the Book Club's reading of Love's Not Color Blind.EVE RICKERTEve Rickert spoke on our Abuse in Polyamory panel and on our Polyamory in Publishing panel. She is the author of More Than Two and Black Iron. She is also the owner of Thorntree Press, a publishing company focused on polyamorous literature.MARJANI LANEMarjani Lane spoke on our White Supremacy in Polyamory event. Marjani Lane is a polyamorous educational content platform/persona created by Ebony Hagans with a focus on supporting the Black community on hard topics in ethical non-monogamy through the lens of the Black community. Ebony is femme queer with preferred pronouns she/they. Ebony created Marjani Lane to be a figure that Black polyam bodies could relate to that wasn’t just heteronormative.DR JUSTIN MOGILSKIDr Mogilski spoke on our Polyamory in Academia panel. He is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina Salkehatchie. His global research purview investigates the strategies for multi-partner relationships. DR. ELI SHEFFDr Elisabeth Sheff spoke on our Polyamory in Academia event. She is a researcher, author and educational consultant with a PhD in Sociology. She has authored The Polyamorists Next Door (2014), Stories from the Polycule (2015), and When Someone You Love is Polyamorous (2016). She co-developed The Bonding Project. |
ANDY ADAMSAndy Adams spoke on our De-coupling in Polyamory panel. She is a non-monogamous mother and educator, and the owner of The Growth Arc (a education and community support space for navigating relationships)DR JUSTIN CLARDYJustin spoke on our White Supremacy in Polyamory event. He is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, and has published work on the intersection of love & race, with a focus on the ethicality of non-monogamous relationship styles and the unjust political consequences for non-monogamists.MICHELLE HYMichelle Hy is spoke on our White Supremacy in Polyamory event. She is from Portland, Oregon and runs the page Polyamorous While Asian, which seeks normalize non-monogamy, promote intentional relationships, and amplify the voices of other POC, who are significantly underrepresented in non-monogamous communities. She works to educate from an intersectional lens, offers non-monogamy peer support sessions.RACHEL KRANTZRachel Krantz is part of our Polyamory in Publishing panel. She is the author of her memoir 'Open: an uncensored memoir of love, liberation and non-monogamy" published by Penguin Random House (2022)MARIANA ELLERYMariana Ellery is part of our Polyamory in Publishing panel, after she successfully self-published a children's book about polyamory called 'A Color Named Love' |
Music Partners: Mint GreenThe podcast intro and outro music is lovingly provided by the amazing Mint Green, an alt-rock, angsty, summery, indie band, who happen to be POC and queer-fronted. Claire and Sebastian met Ronnica in Sommerville, MA while on a polycule meet up. We have been eagerly supporting Mint Green ever since. Their music brings nostalgia for places we have forgotton, and hope for things we didn't know we wanted. You can find Mint Green on bandcamp, facebook and Instagram: @mintgreenmusic. The track we use is Curtains from their EP Growth, which you can purchase digitally here, as well as their other EP's - HeadSpace, Holy, and Take Care. |