Podcast Interview: Andrea Zanin & Eve Rickert, Authors, Curators, & Relationship Anarchists

Hello, Loving Without Boundaries (LWB) community!

I am delighted to be able to share my latest podcast interview with Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin, co-authors, collaborators, and friends. This is the second time that I have been able to speak to Eve Rickert (whom I got to meet in person at my first Southwest Love Fest conference in Tucson, Arizona back in 2019), and the first time engaging with Andrea Zanin, whom I found to be lovely to engage with. We spoke about many wonderful and interesting things, such as how they came to meet, become colleagues and friends, and eventually co-authors and editors of each other’s work, and creators of “More Than Two Essentials” additional works. Their latest co-authored piece: “More Than Two, Second Edition: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity” is book 9 in the “More Than Two Essentials” series that I am excited to dig my teeth into. I love how the title includes the words “kindness” and “integrity”. Who wouldn’t want more of that in their life – whether you practice monogamy, or non-monogamy?! Thank you, Eve and Andrea, for taking the time to speak with me in such an engaging conversation, for your diligent and steadfast work creating these important books for our wider community, and for being amazing humans. I wish you much success with your endeavors!

Here are their Bios:

Eve Rickert is a Gen X, queer, solo polyamorous, relationship anarchist, neurodivergent cis woman, living on unceded WSÁNEC and Lekwungen territory on the west coast of the place currently known as Canada. She is the curator of the “More Than Two Essentials” series and the nonmonogamy resource site morethantwo.ca, the founder and publisher of Thornapple Press, and the founder and mastermind of the science communications firm Talk Science to Me.

Andrea Zanin, MA, is a white, nonbinary, middle-aged queer writer who lives in Tkaronto (Toronto, Ontario), on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Andrea is the author of “Post-Nonmonogamy and Beyond, part of the More Than Two Essentials” series, and has written for the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Bitch, Ms., Xtra, IN Magazine, Outlooks Magazine and the Montreal Mirror. Andrea blogs at sexgeek.wordpress.com, where they created the “10 Rules for Happy Nonmonogamy” and coined the term “polynormativity.”

Some topics we discuss in this highly interesting, informative, and entertaining interview:

• Understanding non-monogamy during teenage years.
• Non-monogamy, queer sexuality, and kink.
• Self-work, communication, and jealousy.
• Relationship Bill of Rights.
• Inclusion of discernment as a new concept alongside courage.
• Examination of gender dynamics and patriarchy in polyamorous relationships.
• Tune in to listen to this fantastic podcast episode!

Thank you, Eve and Andrea, for being so wonderfully generous with your time, and for sharing your work and life with us via the podcast interview! It was enlightening, interesting, and so fun! You can learn more about Eve and Andrea by following Thornapple Press on Instagram and Facebook.

To hear the podcast, go to the Podcast link here and subscribe to the Loving Without Boundaries podcast, then check out Episode 254 with Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin. Also, please help spread awareness of alternative lifestyles and create more tolerance for consensual non-monogamy in the world at large by Rating and Reviewing the LWB podcast in iTunes. It only takes a few minutes.

If you would like to be interviewed either in written form or via audio on the podcast, please feel free to contact me and we will set something up. Thank you!

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