By: Kevin A. Patterson
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The issues that make monogamous dating daunting for people of color—shaming and exclusion by white …
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"Don't let discomfort silence you when your voice can lead to a better situation for all of us."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
"I didn't want to be the kind of privileged person who tells oppressed people what their version of diversity should look like."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
"I didn't want to be the kind of privileged person who tells oppressed people what their version of diversity should look like."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
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By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more
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"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
By: Tatiana Gill , Franklin Veaux , Eve Rickert , None
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? A… read more
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"Practicing security means continually turning towards the best version of yourself."-Tatiana Gill, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
"An omission is a lie when it is calculated to conceal information that, where it known to the other party, would be materially relevant to her."-Tatiana Gill, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
"All of us have done some very bad things. We've all hurt other people when we thought we were doing the right thing, or at least not a bad thing. We were probably trying to get our own needs met-blin…"-Tatiana Gill, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
"In truth, she was lying: she was concealing information that, if he know about it, would have changed his assessment of their relationship. When we talk about honesty, we will do so from the position…"-Tatiana Gill, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
By: Tristan Taormino
Format: 668 pages,
Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating… read more
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By: Susan Forward , Craig Faustus Buck
Format: 406 pages,
All parents fall short from time to time. But Susan Forward pulls no punches when it comes to those… read more
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By: Christopher Ryan , Cacilda Jethá
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream… read more
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"But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand."-Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
"Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing…"-Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
"Societies in which women have lots of autonomy and authority tend to be decidedly male-friendly, relaxed, tolerant, and plenty sexy. Got that, fellas? If you're unhappy at the amount of sexual opport…"-Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
"The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases tha…"-Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
By: Gary F. Marcus
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
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By: Elisabeth Sheff
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
Having a friend or family member come out to you as polyamorous can be confusing and stressful. Cha… read more
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By: Rebecca Thorne
Format: 388 pages, ebook
All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more
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By: Heather Radke
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
By: Sonya Renee Taylor
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more
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"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
By: Jessica Fern
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more
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"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a history of white… read more
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"It's the expectations that many white men have that they shouldn't have to climb, shouldn't have to struggle, as others do. It's the idea not only that they think they have less than others, but that…"-Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
By: Tamsyn Muir
Format: 146 pages, ebook
When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Eac… read more
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"It's also not fair at all that stupidity has gotten you this far. That's another creature you've killed simply by having no brains, which makes anyone with brains feel as if it isn't worth the headac…"-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
"If one does nothing but think of someone, it takes up all the time you could use to do something about them. I wish nobody thought of me, but did a lot for me instead. It's just like someone else goi…"-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
By: Claire Kann
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Joy is in love with Malcolm. But Malcolm really likes Summer. Summer is in love with love. And F… read more
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"Joy didn't settle for friendship with Malcolm. She welcomed in, making a choice, and stood by it and him for ten years."-Claire Kann, The Romantic Agenda
"You know how in games you have a save point? No matter what happens you go back to that point when you run out of lives. Meeting him that day was too important. I can't go back beyond that moment."-Claire Kann, The Romantic Agenda
"Doesn't he realize Joy incorporated yellow cake for him because it's his favorite? When he eats it, will he notice how she held back on the sweetness for him too? That she chose tangy raspberries ove…"-Claire Kann, The Romantic Agenda
"She has being a supportive best friend mastered and down pat. They're already affectionate. They have ten years of history behind them. They barely have any secrets. But something must change when th…"-Claire Kann, The Romantic Agenda
By: Harsha Walia
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Angela Chen
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Şeyda Kurt
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
What is love? Ist die Liebe Sinn des Lebens, eine politische Allianz, Illusion oder Selbstzweck? Od… read more
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"In anderen Beziehungen treffe ich auf sanfte Menschen, doch manche lügen, andere haben ihren eigenen Sandberg, den sie mir auf die Füße ausleeren. Ein anderer ist ein ehrlicher und freundlicher Mensc…"-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
"Ein Versprechen ist die Entscheidung, einen anderen Menschen als Konstante in das eigene Leben aufzunehmen und nach gemeinsamen Wahrheiten zu suchen. Es ist die Entscheidung, die eigene Gegenwart und…"-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
"Doch reicht es, wenn ich in meinen romantischen Beziehungen oder Freund*innenschaften Verantwortung übernehme? Reicht es, wenn ich nur in diesen Verhältnissen daran interessiert bin, Machtgefälle und…"-Şeyda Kurt, Radikale Zärtlichkeit. Warum Liebe politisch ist
By: Kao Kalia Yang
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Somewhere in the Unknown World is a themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world… read more
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"For the refugees from everywhere, men, women, and children, who's fates have been held by the interests of nations who's rights have been contested and denied, who's thirst and hunger go unheeded and…"-Kao Kalia Yang, Somewhere in the Unknown World
By: Jen Winston
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Named one of the Best Books of 2021 by Oprah Daily , Glamour, Shondaland , BuzzFeed , and more! … read more
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"Queerness isn't about individual answers as much as collective questions."-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
"Gay and lesbian bars, safe havens for some, are rarely safe havens for bi people. But where does that leave us to go? It’s like the gay and straight communities are our parents and each thought the o…"-Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much
By: Jessica Fern
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As polyamory continues to make its way into the mainstream, more and more people are exploring cons… read more
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By: Dedeker Winston
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Relationships aren't "one-size-fits-all" so why should relationship advice be? Multiamory offers pr… read more
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By: T.J. Alexander
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“Urgent and intimate.” — The New York Times Book Review A fake dating arrangement turns to real … read more
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By: Kathy Labriola
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Polyamory is not always easy. With multiple partners often come more complex relationships to navig… read more
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By: T.J. Alexander
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A high-strung pastry chef’s professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition a… read more
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By: T.J. Alexander
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom… read more
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By: Alice Wong
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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By: Nic Saluppo
Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition
This book spoke to many of the communication barriers my partner and I have experienced. -Amazon Cu… read more
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By: Kevin A. Patterson
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The issues that make monogamous dating daunting for people of color—shaming and exclusion by white … read more
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"Don't let discomfort silence you when your voice can lead to a better situation for all of us."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
"I didn't want to be the kind of privileged person who tells oppressed people what their version of diversity should look like."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
"Inclusivity has to be seen as a benefit to the community. The lack of diversity has to be seen as a detriment to that community."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
"No group wants to be known locally or widely as "the group that is thoughtlessly, carelessly or intentionally unwelcoming to people of color."-Kevin A. Patterson, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
By: Kathy Labriola
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A counselor and nurse specializing in polyamorous singles, couples and groupings, Kathy Labriola ha… read more
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By: Carrie Jenkins
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
An exploration of the search for meaning in nonmonogamous relationships. The love story we’re all … read more
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