I'll be doing a reading and signing at Smitten Kitten MN, and then attending their polyam community "Pumpkin Spice Social" up the street at the Lynlake Brewery fire pits. per their website:

Book reading, fire pits, community, oh my! This month we’re sticking to Lyndale Ave for our #PolyamSocial.

At 5:30 at the store, enjoy a book reading and conversation with Author Laura Boyle (@readyforpolyamory) from her recent book, “Monogamy? In this Economy?”. Grab your whole ‘cule and then come on out to @lynlakebrewery at 6:30 to read, connect, and enjoy each others company on the roof near the fire pits.

The book reading is FREE and open to the community. We ask for a donation of $5 - $15 for attendance to the social (OR a book purchase!) to make sure we can continue to offer this dedicated space for our Polyamorous community 💜

An in person class discussing the concerns - legal, emotional, and logistical, of being a polyamorous parent. Held in the intimate space of the Smitten Kitten storefront, and MC-ed by Andy Adams of the Growth Arc, it's a great opportunity to hear many of the things Laura has learned over the years working with polyam parents in many stages of life, and to ask questions in a small group setting.

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Very few tickets remain. Get them here while you can.

Relationship Anarchy has gained public awareness in recent years - but not without the generation of myths and misunderstandings about this philosophy of engaging in relationships.

Join me for a workshop wherein we will:

• Bust some of those myths

• Define and give the history of relationship anarchy, including contextualizing it with political anarchist movements

• Briefly look at the RA Manifesto

• Discuss the practicalities of relating from the basis of this philosophical framework, using my own experiences as well as those of others who have permitted me to share their stories during this workshop. (what does it really mean to individually build your relationships from an RA lens? Do I get a smorgasbord worksheet out every time I make a new acquaintance? What about when I want commitment and stability with partners? Hasn't Laura been with one of her partners for nearly a decade?)

• Consider whether Relationship Anarchy is a kind of polyamory, or even rightly a kind of non-monogamy, and how we contextualize that question

• Look at the positives of an RA approach to relating

• And answer audience questions.

• Tickets are here

For this event, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Ro Moed, @unapolygetically,  talking polyamorous homes, the book, and relationship transitions. It's a pay-as-you-can event, up to 16 pounds, which includes your copy of the book.  Details and the online registration are available here.

The digital version of my class on polyam parents' concerns:

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Many polyamorous people have to address the strawman reaction of “But what about the children?” When they come out as polyamorous - and still more have concerns about how their relationships will intersect with them or their partners having children. This class touches on some of the biggest “kid issues” polyamorous folks will face, including:

• Approaches to coming out to older children either as a theoretical idea or when you have additional relationships;

• Addressing non-traditional family structures with toddlers and young children;

• Explaining new partners and what their role is, or how it is evolving, to different age groups;

• Concerns of schoolmates and other children yours may interact with;

• Interactions with schools and doctors offices regarding children and additional partners or additional parents;

• Legal concerns of multi-parent families;

• Smoothing big relationship transitions for children, why and how one might want to do that.

• Tickets here.

In polyamorous relationships, but especially solo polyamorous or Relationship Anarchist relationships, we often step off the “relationship escalator” - that “first comes love, then comes marriage” pattern we all know from nursery rhymes that says our relationships are most valid if they end in the death of one half of the dyad after a lifetime together. Relationships that choose to operate otherwise pick their own milestones, celebrations, and end points, and this class offers up a workshop-style discussion of the various ways folks have chosen to do this as well as strategies to overcome common challenges to living life “off the escalator.”

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Tickets are here.