First up: we made meatballs together. They are now happily simmering in some pasta sauce in the slow cooker. Our house will smell even more amazing in the next 4 hours. 🤤
If I’m feeling up to it, I might make some zucchini bread too 😘
Oh and for the new folks -
Warrior = @AudaciousGrowth, my poly husband of 12 years.
This is us at our best.
(Legal husband is here too, but not as comfortable with me sharing his photos).
I woke up before my alarm today, feeling quite refreshed, but also mentally bouncy & hyper. I can’t calm my brain down enough to attempt sexy times, so I’m playing Overwatch while I sip a little whiskey to let myself mentally relax a bit.
I won 4 games in a row! Then I celebrated with sexy lounging around time. No photos of that.
Just moments later the power 💥 went out. No lights, no gaming. Likely due to the wind 🌬 whipping across Denver today.
No estimate on when power will be back on. Poured myself a whiskey 🥃 and now doing readings for myself and Warrior.
Power is still out. We’ve all gone to our separate corners to read and snuggle under blankets. Mother Nature forcing us to have a good time 😏🥰
We have been without power for 3 hours now. They haven’t had an estimate this whole time. Now we see it will be close to another 3 hours before power is turned back on.
Here’s what I’ve been doing with my time. I can only do about 20 pages at a time before I need a break. It’s a lot of information and it’s impossible not to see the parallels to where we are now. About to finish chapter 5 - about Woodrow Wilson 😕
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14 years ago today I was outed for being #bisexual and #polyamorous by a now defunct local Republican blog. Upset they weren’t getting more media attention they started sending my posts & photos to my board members & legislative leaders.
I quit my job when the press harassed me.
Because I deviated from the straight, monogamous norm, I was treated as a scandal per se. They felt free to dehumanize me, advocate for my children to be taken away from me and speculate wildly on who I had slept with. They constructed a tale where I traded sex for votes.
I was turning 29 in a few months and had a surprisingly successful legislative season as a lobbyist. I accomplished more in one year than anyone expected, including doubling the state’s moral obligation. I did it by being honest, sincere & transparent.
It sounds like he’s talked before about how monogamy isn’t natural. But all of this also sounds exactly how monogamous, nosy neighbors & friends would judge & discuss public displays of nonmonogamy to the press. Gossip columns create scandals to reinforce monogamous “norms”.
I’m also sensing a familiar tale. Consider how you’d perceive it if:
a) they had a relationship agreement on par with DADT
b) he or they have been seeing other people for years
c) he violated the agreement by being photographed
d) she’s devastated about the press situation.
All of this is just my speculation - but if I had been saying “monogamy isn’t natural” in press junkets for the past 5 years, it couldn’t be a clearer signal that perhaps one day I might suspend my magical belief in monogamy and might
Voting third party in THIS election is just a lazy, meaningless demonstration of privilege.
Shrouded by the “courage of your convictions” third party votes are just dicking around with queer, BIPOC, disabled & immigrant lives because of the hubris that they’ll survive facism 😡
If you’ve been on my feed long enough, you’ll know I have worked campaigns before, I’ve worked in policy AND I care about trauma informed social change. In any other election (other than 2016), I haven’t cared as much.
But not this year and not THIS election.
Below is a great summary of the ways Trump has endangered basic human rights in 4 years. Your third party vote doesn’t “send a message” to the parties other than passively telling them that you’re cool with four more years of this: civilrights.org/trump-rollback…