The New York Times ran another big feature article last Tuesday in its Style section: Interested in Polyamory? Check Out These Places (online May 16). It made waves on the internet and is getting reprinted elsewhere. Its focus is Somerville, Mass., which adjoins Cambridge as part of the Boston sprawl (we locals are known to call them Camberville). The Somerville City Council's actions to ..read more

●  Are those basic Poly 101s popping up all over the mainstream media these days still needed?Damn right. More than ever.Because so many of the newbies excited by the idea and now venturing in are truly clueless, and so many predators and low-level jerks manipulate them by appropriating our language. Here's a 1-minute Tok from Polyamfam guy, a much-watched educator we can be proud of, about ..read more

●  TLC's promised polyandry series Seeking Brother Husband is airing. It features four woman-centered polyamorous relationships, including longtime poly/ENM advocates Kenya and Carl Stevens and their partner Tiger, pictured above. The tag line: "Polyandrous families ..read more

This is a developing story. Check back later for more. Last night, after riveting presentations by members of the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition (PLAC), the City Council of Somerville, Mass., enacted the nation's first law adding family or relationship structure to its list of prohibited discriminations, right up there with race, religion, sex, national origin, and other protected ..read more

America's first legal recognitions of polyfamilies have been enacted in a few localities in last two years. Official multi-member domestic partnerships have were approved in 2021 and 2022 in Somerville, Cambridge, and Arlington, Massachusetts. These efforts are spreading, and local non-discrimination ordinances are coming next. These will add relationship status to the list of protected ..read more

Lots to catch up on.Many people have noticed a trend: The form of ethical non-monogamy that most fascinates the media, presumably because it most fascinates the public, is the tightest form: polyfamilies. Especially with kids. I think that's because polyfamilies are two opposite things at once. They are the most radically different form of ENM compared to what people ..read more

One of the happier families on the show.  (TLC) ● For better or worse, it's finally happening: ‘Seeking Brother Husband’: TLC’s New Reality Series (TV Insider, Jan. 12). Six years ago, TLC aired a one-hour pilot for a reality show to be called "Brother Husbands." It followed an MFM ..read more

Getty ●  As 2022 neared its end, the BBC published Love and sex in 2022: The five biggest lessons of the year (Dec. 20). The lessons were: –  "People are moving away from long-held binaries" –  Some are trying to improve "the increasingly bleak world of dating" –  ..read more

One of the adorkable Polyamorous Platypus cards and items It's that jumping time of year when multi-partnershipping often means exponential multi-scheduling and family-of-origin drama management. And every year, up comes lots of good advice about all ..read more

●  Quite a few of us are geeks, sometimes to the point of being neuroatypical.This was more true in the past when the polyamory movement was small and definitely farther out of the mainstream. But why? We've always had ideas, such as for instance in my Poly and neurodiversity: How come? Now Elisabeth Sheff, in her Psychology Today blog "The Polyamorists Next Door", posts Neurodiversity and ..read more