Category Archives: resources/reading recommendations

Jealousy-Inducing Beliefs

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Anya Light

Here is a great excerpt from the article I’m reading today. Authors McCullough and Hall discuss how jealousy is not inevitable, natural, or something that cannot be eventually overcome or understood. They write: “Our culture seems addicted to three core … Continue reading →

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An Overview of Poly in the Popular Media; and, A Gift of Sources

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Anya Light

I’ve been a busy little bee, lately, drafting Chapter 2. In two full weeks of crazy, hermetic work (where I holed myself up in my office with my lovely books and sometimes forgot to eat, forgot what day of the … Continue reading →

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A thank you note

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Anya Light

A most-massive thank you goes out to sexualities scholar Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, editor of  Plural Loves and author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love. Her tremendously insightful encouragement, advice, and general support has been invaluable as I make my … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Alexander

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Anya Light

I’m really excited. Jonathan Alexander, the person who has most vocally supported the discussion of queer issues within the field of rhetoric and writing (my field) is coming to my campus in April, to give some talks about issues relating … Continue reading →

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Polynormativity

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Anya Light

Today I read an excellent post by my favorite sexuality blogger quizzicalpussy. She wrote about the brand-spanking new concept of “polynormativity” (apparently coined so recently that the ink hasn’t yet dried): the idea that poly people are “supposed to have” hierarchies … Continue reading →

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Reaching Out; Wanting More (A Swirl of Ideas Today)

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Anya Light

Lately, a lot of terrific people have been reaching out to me. Activists, friends, potential collaborators, other academics. A few weeks ago, a woman doing her masters degree in Quebec/Canada emailed me, telling me about her thesis work in french … Continue reading →

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A rather rambly, joyous post

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Anya Light

I personally do not know anyone who has come to identify as poly who has not come to it through the event of falling in love. (Though, of course, I’m sure such cases have happened. I just personally have never … Continue reading →

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Quote of the day

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Anya Light

“The priority accorded to sex, its status as ‘special’, is something we should question. Why should sexual love be regarded as more exclusive than any other kind of love? No one suggests that a woman who has two children loves … Continue reading →

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A wonderful wonderful wonderful book!!!

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Anya Light

Maybe it’s because I just got done writing my prospectus (a long, formal dissertation proposal), or maybe it’s just because I’m running low on energy this week…but I can’t write much now, even though I really want to. However, I … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on The Closet

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Anya Light

In his essay “Public and Private,” literary theorist and cultural critic Michael Warner (one of my all-time favorite writers) has this to say about closets: “Speech everywhere is regulated unequally. Yet, ironically, common mythology understands the closet as an individual’s … Continue reading →

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