From Brett Chamberlin, director of OPEN, the Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-monogamy: Oakland, California just became the third US city to pass nondiscrimination protections for non-monogamy and diverse family structures! It's the first city on the US West Coast and the largest city yet to do so. This is yet another exciting milestone for the accelerating movement to ..read more

Multilove amazement? ●  Coming up in the New York Times Magazine this Sunday, April 21: Lessons From a 20-Person Polycule (online April 15). It's a long, photo-rich series of interviews and personal tales, clearly distilled way down to concentrate the insights ..read more

Chacruna Institute●  Ross Douthat is house conservative columnist at the New York Times. That can't be easy; he can't write dumb shit (often) but has to be consistently worth reading for people who disagree with him. He discusses us polyfolk as his central focus in a pick-apart of society's current sexual transitions: The Quest for a New Vision of Sexual Morality (March 27 ..read more

●  First: The next poly conventions / gatherings on the calendar! —————————————♥ ♥ ♥————————————— Poly Big Fun March 28 – 31 Bastrop State Park near Austin, TX  A big annual campout of the area community, with self-organized workshops. "Previous events have ..read more

●  Let's start with, in USA Today, Why are we so obsessed with polyamory? (Feb. 23) MangoStar_Studio / Getty / iStock By David Oliver Polyamory is everywhere. ... It permeates society at every turn.... Why, exactly? Many factors are at play, according to experts, including changing attitudes toward monogamy as a result of the pandemic and increasing ..read more

The "Couple to Throuple" reality show has concluded, with its final reveals. The reactions from the poly world to the series are... strong. There are lessons. ●  ‘Couple to Throuple’ Wildly Failed the Polyamory Community. We’re Not Shocked. (Daily Beast, Feb. 29) By Frankie De La Cretaz ...Now, look—I’m not under the delusion that all ..read more

●  Let's start with Is polyamory the future? in the Washington Post (online Feb. 14). A member of the Post's editorial board argues that the current wave of media attention we're getting is a case of self-inflating positive feedback among the media.  He's not wrong. But he misses the steady rise of poly in the culture for the last 15 years or so, especially ..read more

Oakland City Hall The cities of Berkeley and Oakland, California, will consider passing ordinances to protect people in non-standard families and relationship structures from discrimination in housing, the workplace, and elsewhere because of their family structure or relationship status ..read more

Lots to cover! The 2024 flood continues.  ●  First we gotta deal with this. The Peacock Network's new reality show Couple to Throuple dropped its first three episodes on Thursday, and, well, to summarize I've chosen this from the Daily Beast: ‘Couple to Throuple’ Is Addictive, Diabolical Trash About Polyamory (Feb. 8) Is Peacock’s ..read more

A throuple's cuddly toothbrushes as portrayed in the Wall Street Journal The sudden wave of fascination with polyamory and ENM in major media continues, as if some sort of tipping point happened early in January. But what? Dan Savage offers an answer in his Savage Love ..read more