The Ready For Polyamory Podcast

"It's really just a matter of making sure people really see me, Ebony, and me includes non-binary identity as well as the experience of Black womanhood."

"It's been one thing to have issues in dati…

"My relationship structure now is significantly less hierarchical than it was when my partner and I came back to polyamory with one another."

"Dangling possibilities for years is just so much worse…

"It's just been wild to see the explosion of representation of polyamory on tv the last few years."

"When I started my polyamory in media series there were like 2 movies and me digging for 30 year o…

“I find that minimizing other relationships doesn’t do what people think it will- you have to move through discomfort anyway.”

“If you can’t talk about a kind of sex or a relationship style with the…

"We don't automatically or invisibly put expectations on each other - that leads to resentment and conflict."

"To heck with the hyper independent BS - community and the autonomous individual existi…

"Sometimes a particular adult's involvement ebbs and flows but there isn't the kind of sudden disappearance or 'revolving door' that serial monogamists imagine with polyamorous dating because we've b…

"Acknowledging compersion isn't denying our jealousy. You can have a lot of different emotional 'foods' on your 'plate' at once."

"We shouldn't beat ourselves up if we don't feel compersion the firs…

"I really think we could de-escalate the use of de-escalation as a term. Let's talk about transitions and changes maybe instead. It's more accurate."

"De-escalating literally implies stepping down, …

"The purpose of a pride flag is unification and visibility for the represented group - and the current polyamory flag does neither."

"If you say polyamory or kink or leather can't be at pride 'for …

"Solopolyamory flies in the face of this idea that if you love someone you'll want to be with them 24/7. It's just not true. We're here in defiance of it."

"it's about this extreme representation of…

"In this structure now, I have been able to figure out who I am and what I want. That isn't to say I haven't gone on dates - I've tried it - but my polysaturation point really is 1, and this way I ha…

Today's episode contains frank discussion of sexuality and kink dynamics, listener be aware.

"I feel like no one really talks about the ins and outs of intimacy that involves marks and BDSM dynamic…

"Nothing I do ever goes viral, but one of my posts that did pretty well recently said 'I want my polyamory to be less about compersion and more about compassion,' and I think that applies here."

The…

"I'm relationship style agnostic - I don't think there's one right way to do relationships, but gosh are there a lot of really crappy ways to do relationships."

On today's episode, Laura and Dr. Jol…

"You have to take the space to take care of yourself and notice if you haven't made space for yourself outside of parenthood in a long time - because making space for your non-parent identity is impo…

Laura and her friend Abbie K. (Tiktok's @Polyanarchy) talk about a variety of fiction they've read that contains CNM &polyamorous relationships, trends they see in polyamorous literature, and favorit…

"Once or twice a year hotels are an adventure... more than that it just becomes an expense"

Laura and her friend Corwin met because they both were cohabiting polyamorous people who went to a meetup …

"There's a great series on TikTok by Claire of PolyPages comparing unicorn hunter bios to tech startup ads and I think that says a lot."

In today's episode, Laura disambiguates the terms "unicorn" …

Assuming that, broadly speaking, polyamory is what you want out of a consensually non-monogamous relationship - that you want multiple, loving relationships - there is still so much ground to cover i…

In this episode, Laura examines the cultural reality of couple's privilege - the ways in which pair-bonding is encouraged and rewarded in our mono-normative culture - and the ways that folks sometime…