Dear readers, this is just a quick post to let you know that I will keep this blog and domain up indefinitely. But I am now writing on consensual nonmonogamy (CNM), including critical polyamory, among many more topics over at my new All of the work that I do, be it interrogating certain genomic and other scientific research and commercial activities, interrogating compulsory monogamy and marriage, or interrogating assumptions about "nature," is really about interrogating the violently imposed worldviews and structures of the Eurocentric settler-colonial state. Thus, I decided to gather and lin ..read more

Dear readers, I have done multiple podcast interviews in the last year or two on critical polyamory. I decided I should gather them together. Below are summaries and links for those that i can recall, most recent first. Readers are welcome to remind me of any links I might forget and I will add them to this post. Thank you all for reading. And happy listening! Please listen to this episode at: This is my most recent podcast interview, and one of the funn(i)est conversations I have had on this topic. This is the I loved laughing and talking with Adrienne and Matika, and thank them for having me ..read more

Settler colonialism doesn’t only hurt Indigenous peoples. I was guest interviewed for, Pterocast! I talk in about new avenues for critical and creative academic research, polyamory and the deconstruction of compulsory monogamy, Indigenous belonging, assumptions of ancestry in DNA tests and much more. This podcast covers not only my work on critical polyamory but also my longer-standing work on anti-racist science and technology ..read more

Kim TallBear AKA the Critical Polyamorist, SoloPolyCon April 14, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA Thanks to all of the people at ConvergeCon 2018 who I had the pleasure of thinking with over the weekend of April 7-8, 2018, and whose sex positivity work in the world also fertilized this keynote. And thanks to Damien AtHope (pictured here) for the video.  ..read more

Identity is a Poor Substitute For Relating: Genetic ancestry, critical polyamory, property, and relations given March 27, 2020 via Zoom for In 2013, I started writing the  blog, a new turn in my research after over a decade of studying the DNA testing industry and its implications for Indigenous “identity” and governance. In that same year, my book,  Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science was published with University of Minnesota Press (and in 2019 ). At first, the new turn in my personal life and research interests seemed unrelated to my exis ..read more

Kim TallBear: The polyamorist that wants to destroy sex - Interview by Montserrat Madariaga-Caro This is an English-language translation of  conducted by Montserrat Madariaga-Caro, and published in   The interview was started in Austin Texas in January 2020 face-to-face, and was finished by e-mail while I was back in Canada and  Viña del Mar, Chile, a PhD Candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, working on life relations at Mapuche Huilliche Territory in Chile.  To destroy sexuality as it is known in the Western world is for Kim TallBear the same as re ..read more