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Discount for Polyamorists Next Door if you order from the publisher’s website

If you are interested in reading my new book, The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-partner Relationships and Families, consider buying it for a discount. If you order directly through Rowman & Littlefield at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442222953 you can get a 20% discount on The Polyamorists Next Door. Use promotion code 4M14SHEFF at checkout for 20% off – thisContinue reading “Discount for Polyamorists Next Door if you order from the publisher’s website”

Diversity and Polyamory

Polyamory is a form of non-monogamy in which both women and men maintain openly conducted romantic, sexual, and/or emotionally intimate relationships. While it has been around in various forms for far longer, polyamory has burst on to the social scene in the last 10 years like never before. In my 15-year study of polyamorists, IContinue reading “Diversity and Polyamory”

The Polyamorists Next Door on the publisher’s website

Now you can find my new book about poly families with children, The Polyamorists Next Door, on the publisher’s website at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442222953 You can pre-order now, or get it hot off the presses in November 2013

Three Policies that could Support Human Rights in Gender and Sexual Minority Families

In the United States some (mostly white and heterosexual) people wax poetic about “the traditional family” of the 1950s, looking back on or imagining relationships of that period as iconic of “real” families with moms who worked at home for free (AKA “didn’t work”), married to dads who worked outside the home for pay, andContinue reading “Three Policies that could Support Human Rights in Gender and Sexual Minority Families”

Unicorn Hunting, Poly Kids Speak, and Queer Academia, Oh My! See Elisabeth Sheff at Frolicon

See Elisabeth Sheff at Frolicon March 28-31, 2013 at the Sheraton Gateway hotel in Atlanta Georgia. You can find more information about the Frolicon Think Track at http://frolicon.hugme.org/?page_id=71 Friday from 5 to 6:30 pm Dr. Sheff will present “Freaky academia: Being Queer at the University” in Brussels: Queerness can encompass a wide variety of identities and practices,Continue reading “Unicorn Hunting, Poly Kids Speak, and Queer Academia, Oh My! See Elisabeth Sheff at Frolicon”

Did you miss hearing the live interview with Dr. Sheff on Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino? Hear it on VoiceAmerica

Listen to me on Tristan Taormino’s radio show “Sex Out Loud” on The VoiceAmerica Network. http://sexoutloudradio.com. Click  on the March 8 show, I am the second guest.

Live Science Interviews Dr. Sheff for Article on Polyamory

http://www.livescience.com/27129-polyamory-good-relationships.html?goback=%2Egde_1793414_member_214226767 The author of this article in Live Science interviewed me so long ago I had forgotten about it, and it took another colleague drawing the article to my attention for me to remember that we had had the conversation. I really like where she went with it!

International Academic Polyamory Conference in Berkeley this weekend 2/15 – 17/2013

This coming weekend scholars from around the world will present at the first International Academic Polyamory Conference in Berkeley, California, USA. The conference opens Friday night at 5:30 with Psychological and Mental Health Presentations from Deborah Anapol, Kathy Labriola, and Karen Haas. I will appear remotely from my home in Atlanta on Friday night atContinue reading “International Academic Polyamory Conference in Berkeley this weekend 2/15 – 17/2013”

Failure or Transition? Redefining the “End” of Polyamorous Relationships

This is a chapter forthcoming in Selves, Symbols and Sexualities: Contemporary Readings, edited by Staci Newmahr and Thomas Weinberg. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.          Relationships in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century exist in a uniquely schizophrenic state in which couples routinely promise to stay together “until deathContinue reading “Failure or Transition? Redefining the “End” of Polyamorous Relationships”