Wanna get an early copy of the definitive book on how race and polyamory? Wanna support the voices and stories of people of color in polyamorous communities? Want insight on creating inclusive environments? Kevin Patterson of Poly Role Models is trying to bring the real talk with his upcoming book Love’s Not Color Blind: Race and …
Tag: race
Five Things White People Can Do to Make Their Poly Communities More Welcoming for People of Color
I just finished listening to a fantastic podcast from Poly in the Cities with Kevin Patterson from Poly Role Models. Turns out white folks in the poly community routinely try to tell Kevin Patterson about his experience as a Black person: When Kevin names race in conversations with some poly folks and event or group organizers, it all too …
Getting Ready for Sex Down South, One More Week of Discount Registration
I am thrilled to be presenting at Sex Down South again this year, and wanted to encourage you all to get your early bird tickets while they are still cheap! You can register here at http://sexdownsouth.com/registration/
Dr. Sheff Gives Keynote at Atlanta Poly Weekend THIS WEEKEND
If you have not gotten your tickets yet, there is still time to register for Atlanta Poly Weekend. Among the many, many fabulous presentations I will be giving the opening keynote address Friday at 5pm. On Saturday I moderate a kids’ panel from 10:30 to noon, and then host a presentation and discussion about how …
APW 2016 Schedule
I am really excited about the awesome lineup for Atlanta Poly Weekend coming up June 3-5. The lineup is chock full of serious things like talking to kids about sex (with the beyond fabulous Marla Renee Stewart) and demystifying asexuality (with the most excellent Melissa Avery-Weir) to fun stuff like Kinky Science (with the incredible …
Alternative Relationship Education Workshop Event
Alternative Relationship Education Workshop Event Atlanta March 12
Review of Polyqueer: Gender, Race, and Polyamory
In Polyqueer: Gender, Race, and Polyamory, Dr. Mimi Schippers examines the racialized and gendered backdrop against which heterosexuality and monogamy play out in contemporary US culture. Focusing on multiplistic configurations of one woman with two men, Schippers provides a polyqueer reading of E.Lynn Harris’s Invisible Life and the film The Other Man. Going beyond the …
Why use the term White Privilege?
One of my readers, Wortmanberbger, responded one of my previous blogs on White Fragility with the following : Fine, but there is the danger of an ideologically distorting influence inherent in the phrase “white privilege”, which tends to frame these discussions. Whites are not privileged. Black people are oppressed, and white people are not, generally speaking, …
Sex Down South Conference Tons of Fun with Sexy Brains
This first year of the Sex Down South conference was FANTASTIC!!!!!! Tons of fun, lots of new ideas, great people to chat with, and so many amazing sessions it was difficult to choose what amazing thing I got to learn next. Lucky for us, the organizers plan to do it again next October so start …
White Fragility and the Benefits of Being Uncomfortable About Racism
The reality of racism shatters the comfortable (for white people) myth that the US today is a colorblind society which gives everyone an equal chance at everything. When that cherished myth of colorblindness is disturbed by evidence that racism is not only real but pervasive, many white folks get uncomfortable talking about racial inequality. I …