If you haven't been reading Polyamory in the News (polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/) in the last three months, here's some of what you missed:
** "Internet Pushes Polyamory to its Tipping Point". If this Wired Magazine writer is right, the bandwagon is starting to roll downhill ahead of us. Should we quit just pushing and run up and grab the steering wheel?
** Redbook, Glamour, and Marie Claire magazines -- the things your aunt reads at the hairdresser -- all offer remarkably positive profiles of open and polyamorous marriages in their June issues.
** Jenny Block, whose book on her poly life comes out in a couple weeks, becomes a columnist for the Huffington Post. She asks us for our topic suggestions.
** Time magazine devotes four pages to the bonobo culture wars (waged in the Wall Street Journal and alternative culture, not among the apes themselves). Yes, Time concludes, the critters really do have something big to teach us about human possibilities.
** When Tilda Swinton won an Oscar her poly relationship raised much buzz, which she handled with aplomb.
** The Tilda Swinton buzz got Polyamory Weekly podcaster Cunning Minx a nice writeup in her hometown Chicago paper. And that got her on Chicago radio, to take on a couple of dumb morning talk jocks.
** Loving More magazine is back.
** "Gleaned through work with my clients and a series of in-depth interviews," writes a New York therapist, "I offer you some examples of non-monogamous relationships, the elements that have them be workable, the challenges that come along with them, and the reasons why the people have chosen to set up their lifestyles and love-styles thus."
** Akien MacIain, in a poly-versus-mono discussion on the radio: "In the beginning there was God. And God was infinite and knew everything, except what it was to be finite. So one day God split itself up into zillions of little bits and commanded them all forget that they were one, and to go figure out what it was to be finite. And so we are all those little bits of God the infinite, learning what is to be finite." Not what the mono side expected?
** Voice of America TV, in a global news broadcast, plays it down the middle.
** Poly 101 advice for Staten Island.
** Deep in the Bible Belt, a founder of Focus On Christ Ministries denounces polyamory as depraved -- and one of our people, trained by the Jesuits, returns a Biblical reply. Save this for discussions with your Christian relatives.
** And finally, best of all: the Washington Post covered Loving More's Poly Living Conference with a long feature article. Never mind the mild snarks and cringe-makers. This is the deepest, truest-to-life article about us that I recall in the bigtime media.
------------------
Here's the site: polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/ . The 10 most recent items are up front. Look in the recent monthly archives for more. The archives are also sorted by subject and, in some cases, location.
I've done 209 of these reports in the last three years. I hope you have as much fun browsing them as I did creating them.
Cheers,
Alan M.
P.S.: If you're on LiveJournal, you can friend the LJ feed for the site:
syndicated.livejournal.com/polymedia
** "Internet Pushes Polyamory to its Tipping Point". If this Wired Magazine writer is right, the bandwagon is starting to roll downhill ahead of us. Should we quit just pushing and run up and grab the steering wheel?
** Redbook, Glamour, and Marie Claire magazines -- the things your aunt reads at the hairdresser -- all offer remarkably positive profiles of open and polyamorous marriages in their June issues.
** Jenny Block, whose book on her poly life comes out in a couple weeks, becomes a columnist for the Huffington Post. She asks us for our topic suggestions.
** Time magazine devotes four pages to the bonobo culture wars (waged in the Wall Street Journal and alternative culture, not among the apes themselves). Yes, Time concludes, the critters really do have something big to teach us about human possibilities.
** When Tilda Swinton won an Oscar her poly relationship raised much buzz, which she handled with aplomb.
** The Tilda Swinton buzz got Polyamory Weekly podcaster Cunning Minx a nice writeup in her hometown Chicago paper. And that got her on Chicago radio, to take on a couple of dumb morning talk jocks.
** Loving More magazine is back.
** "Gleaned through work with my clients and a series of in-depth interviews," writes a New York therapist, "I offer you some examples of non-monogamous relationships, the elements that have them be workable, the challenges that come along with them, and the reasons why the people have chosen to set up their lifestyles and love-styles thus."
** Akien MacIain, in a poly-versus-mono discussion on the radio: "In the beginning there was God. And God was infinite and knew everything, except what it was to be finite. So one day God split itself up into zillions of little bits and commanded them all forget that they were one, and to go figure out what it was to be finite. And so we are all those little bits of God the infinite, learning what is to be finite." Not what the mono side expected?
** Voice of America TV, in a global news broadcast, plays it down the middle.
** Poly 101 advice for Staten Island.
** Deep in the Bible Belt, a founder of Focus On Christ Ministries denounces polyamory as depraved -- and one of our people, trained by the Jesuits, returns a Biblical reply. Save this for discussions with your Christian relatives.
** And finally, best of all: the Washington Post covered Loving More's Poly Living Conference with a long feature article. Never mind the mild snarks and cringe-makers. This is the deepest, truest-to-life article about us that I recall in the bigtime media.
------------------
Here's the site: polyinthemedia.blogspot.com/ . The 10 most recent items are up front. Look in the recent monthly archives for more. The archives are also sorted by subject and, in some cases, location.
I've done 209 of these reports in the last three years. I hope you have as much fun browsing them as I did creating them.
Cheers,
Alan M.
P.S.: If you're on LiveJournal, you can friend the LJ feed for the site:
syndicated.livejournal.com/polymedia
