528: Chris Smith on polyamory and the Black American

Polyamory Weekly

Chris Smith on polyamory and the Black American

0:00 Introduction and host chat

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1:30 Poly in the News

A Yoplait ad campaign builds on the idea of polyamory

4:20 Interview: Chris Smith

Chris Smith is a PhD student at Howard University studying higher education and a relationship researcher focused on non-monogamy within the Black demographic.

Open to Love; Poly and the Black American

• People raise sex and put it on a pedestal. And that’s OK, but raise communication and flexibility to that same level.
• Polyamory as a possible method of strengthening Black economic power
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
• Blacks are already ostracized; it can be difficult to add polyamory to the mix. As a Black male, it’s already hard to fight the aggressive and overly sexualized stereotypes; polyamory can appear to reinforce those
• Link for the Black and poly survey Let’s get to 3,000!
• Black polyamorous anthology description and consent forms to participate email [e-mail]
• Find Chris Smith on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as MrTenability

35:50 How to make this podcast better

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