Of Muggles and Yodas
One of the aspects of polyamory that really excites me is the opportunity to coin new language. We have this incredibly rich landscape filled with various opportunities to intimately relate, and in so...
View ArticleFlying the Friendly Skies (Yes, That’s a Euphemism)
Photo from http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk taken by “Villager Jim” I’m a fan of extended analogies, especially when it comes to explaining polyamory. And so, in that regard, I want to share an...
View ArticleThe Six-Year Drought
Note: I usually use gender-neutral language in my writing, including about my partners, even though I am exclusively attracted to women. I’m choosing to use gendered language in this post because the...
View ArticleYou Must Be This Tall To Ride
Over two years ago, I concluded my first consideration of what polyamory meant for me. As part of that process, I decided that I would only become partners with people who I considered “primary...
View ArticleOne Year Ago Today
On the morning of December 30, 2014, I received a three-word text message from my brother. “Harper is gone.” Even with a year’s distance, I can’t look at those words without re-experiencing that day,...
View ArticleWhy I Won’t (Yet) Call The Oregon Criminals Terrorists
The seized federal building Words matter. Context also matters. I aspire for precision in the language I use, especially when that language involves highly inflammatory subjects. The precision I expect...
View ArticleMust “Partners” Be Sexual Partners?
Back in late 2013, I wrote about several different ways of potentially classifying intimate relationships (i.e. primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary). All of these relationship classifications...
View ArticleCoining Language
One of the aspects of polyamory that really excites me is the opportunity to coin new language. We have these new and interesting ways of relating, and so we get the chance to come up with memorable...
View ArticleOkCupid Remains Couples-Centric
There is absolutely nothing problematic with this image of a suggested couple’s Cupid costume. </sarcasm> This post was written with the express consent of my partners (mentioned below). So, this...
View ArticleRe-Considering Social Justice
It’s time to give this idea a full, fair, and adversarial hearing I have decided to formally re-open the question of my perspective on social justice through July 1, 2016. What I mean by “social...
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