Coming Out Poly

Tristan Taormino has put up a new message board on her new site for her new book. Lots of new things :-) Look into it.

We're looking to hold a discussion group here in Milwaukee on the 2nd of June. It will be at the Anodyne Coffee shop on the south side of town at 7:00pm. Please bring a few bucks for coffee and a will to discuss. We're looking to change this venue to the local A Woman's Touch store; I just haven't contacted the woman about it yet. Plus it's not free, so that would be an issue.

I have a few topics in mind to talk about at our first meeting (don't worry, no silly ice-breakers). I think it'll be good to truly start building our Milwaukee community. It needs to happen.

Email: dsteiner7@gmail.com

Directions:

From the west (using Waukesha as the starting point):
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From the north (using Mequon as the starting point):
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From the south (using Racine as the starting point):
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This post was meant to be made a while ago, but the site didn't let me the day I wanted to, and I forgot about it until today. Sorry for that.

Recently Nyla and I attended minx's seminar in Madison. We learned a lot and had a number of good discussions. I think kitchenkarma summed it up pretty well on the boards, so I won't really get too much more into it. I'll give a few thoughts on my own experience of it, though.

Hello everyone. It's been a busy few weeks with Nyla being gone, Elle being sick, my brother coming into town (this upcoming weekend), and everything needing to be prep-ed for that. So it's slowed down a bit - enough for me to write this rather short post.

Nikita - the woman I mentioned last post - said something last Tuesdays that's had me thinking lately. (Man I hate it when people make me think). She and I had a discussion about the LGBT community, the Polyamorous community, and the "sexual minority". The what?

Ever since the inception of this blog, Nyla and I have had the intention of becoming a part of the community that we inevitably became a part of. A little redundant, yes, but it makes sense - trust me. By the very nature of realizing we were poly, we became part of the community - silent though it may be; our desire, however, was to become active - to have a voice within our city that represented poly. The unfortunate thing is that there really isn't much of a community for us; or, rather, we've already sort of found everyone that we can relate to.

My world is small. I think everyone's is when it really comes down to it. There's always that feeling of "six degrees of separation" you get whenever you meet someone new. In the poly community, my world seems to be even smaller.

Nyla has recently been looking for a girlfriend. If you're interested, have a look. In just a matter of only a few hours, she already had a reply. It was from a lesbian in the area who was interested in her; there discussion was very interesting, but there was definitely a miscommunication:

landers: so heres a question for you...your profile says your married...is that correct?
landers: not much of a partier...not till things go well
Nyla: yeah. i am polyamorous

I would generally not think that there would be related thoughts on a poly blog and a writer's blog; however, such a thing did happen when I looked through my Google Reader this morning. The second post is very pertinent to the first.