Amplifying Melanated Voices - polyamory & non-monogamy

Instead of posting Ask Polyamory content this week, I will be amplifying Black voices in the area of sexual health, relationships, reproductive justice, and other relevant topics. Please support these creators and organizations with your readership, donations, and other amplifying actions.

If you would like your blog or content to be featured here, please reach out.

Black & Poly - Black & Poly is a community where we ask the questions and share the stories that too often go unexamined because of fear or shame. Our goal is to provide an eclectic, culturally rich environment where people can come together to socialize, learn, and share common interests related to polyamorous living.

Alicia Bunyan Sampson - ALICIA BUNYAN SAMPSON is an independent filmmaker, writer, counsellor/advocate and researcher based in Toronto. She focuses her work primarily on her identity as a black woman, love, trauma, sexuality and non-monogamy. Her academic and creative research focuses on the intersections of sexual trauma, race and gender identity. She is currently working on a documentary series about polyamorous black people. She has a forthcoming book, No Filter: Diary Of A Polyamorous Black Girl set to be published by Thorntree Press.

Black Sex Geek - Ruby Bouie Johnson, sex therapist and educator.

Evita Sawyers - Black, Bisexual, Polyamorous, Feminist, and Opinionated

Poly Role Models - Spotlighting the perfectly-flawed, wonderfully unique people and relationships that make up polyamory!

Amplifying Melanated Voices - reproductive justice

Instead of posting Ask Polyamory content this week, I will be amplifying Black voices in the area of sexual health, relationships, reproductive justice, and other relevant topics. Please support these creators and organizations with your readership, donations, and other amplifying actions.

National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda - Reproductive Justice is the human right to control our bodies, our sexuality, our gender, our work and our reproduction. That right can only be achieved when all women and girls have the complete economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, our families, and our communities in all areas of our lives. It is this vision that propels this new initiative. In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda will focus on abortion rights and access, contraceptive equity and comprehensive sex education as our key policy issues.

SisterSong - SisterSong’s mission is to strengthen and amplify the collective voices of indigenous women and women of color to achieve reproductive justice by eradicating reproductive oppression and securing human rights.

The Afiya Center - Our mission is to serve Black women and girls by transforming their relationship with their sexual and reproductive health through addressing the consequences of reproduction oppression.

Black & Bold: Black Liberation & Reproductive Justice - Download, print, and use these cards with friends and groups who want to explore topics of Black liberation and Reproductive Justice! The cards will help build some knowledge and open up important questions about what we can do to lift up Black leadership.

Amplifying Melanated Voices - sexual wellness

Instead of posting Ask Polyamory content this week, I will be amplifying Black voices in the area of sexual health, relationships, reproductive justice, and other relevant topics. Please support these creators and organizations with your readership, donations, and other amplifying actions.

If you would like your blog or content to be featured here, please reach out.

KIMBRITIVE - Real, empowering conversations + sexual wellness workshops for Black women and girls.

Afrosexology - We create spaces online and in real life for Black people to openly discuss sexual exploration and liberation.

Black Youth Project: Gender & Sexuality - The Black Youth Project will examine the attitudes, resources, and culture of the young, urban black millennial, exploring how these factors and others influence their decision-making, norms, and behavior in critical domains such as sex, health, and politics.

The Body: A Home For Love - the body: a home for love is a tax deductible 501c3 non-profit organization shifting culture around how black women heal from sexual trauma. through restorative programming, art, design and wellness, we curate experiences that impart healing rituals to women in need of self-love, community and safe spaces.

Amplifying Melanated Voices - Upspoken

Instead of posting Ask Polyamory content this week, I will be amplifying Black voices in the area of sexual health, relationships, reproductive justice, and other relevant topics. Please support these creators and organizations with your readership, donations, and other amplifying actions.

If you would like your blog or content to be featured here, please reach out.

Upspoken - Upspoken is a space for Black women to come together to share our varied experiences, strengths, vulnerabilities and successes in love, relationships and sex. We believe that, together, we can build power and strength from each other, giving us the confidence to take full ownership of our sexuality and build healthy relationships that prioritize our needs.

Upspoken Royaltea - This table has been set for Black women of all ages and backgrounds to sip on the hottest tips for sexual empowerment.

My offer still stands - handwritten letters and stickers or personal online correspondence in exchange for donations to BLM and related organizations.

I have this platform. I'm gonna use it.

Right now the people of my country are fighting for freedom, justice, and the dismantling of a racist system. Please send some support to one of the organizations listed in this document.

Anyone who donates $5 or more and sends me proof at polyamoryadvice@gmail.com will get either a.) a hand-written, decorated letter with 2 Ask Polyamory stickers mailed to them OR b.) a private, personal email in response to whatever they ask. (You’ll need to clarify which one you want in your email. If you want a letter and stickers, you’ll need to send me your address.)