BAD POLY: Spill the Tea Edition – featuring Michelle Tea, Alex Alberto, Ashna Ali & Ro White

Michelle Tea – author of Free Love: Adventures in Marriage and Polyamory (upcoming), Valencia, Black Wave, Knocking Myself Up, Against Memoir, and others.

Alex Alberto – author of Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home

Ashna Ali – author of The Relativity of Living Well

Ro White – Autostraddle’s sex & dating editor and Neo-Futurist

Hosted By

Ly Rosengard – writer, activist, and community organiser

Jun Chou – writer, interviewer, and designer

Welcoming all queer, trans, poly, slutty, smutty, erotic, wholesome, romantic, messy stories, poems, tea and more for the upcoming BAD POLY: Spill the Tea Edition! This reading annd open mic fundraiser welcomes us to be real about the hot and chaotic joy, confusion, contradiction, and freedom of living lives outside of the binary norm.

This event is also a fundraiser. 100% of proceeds from this event will go to trans rights and anti-ICE efforts. There will be a QR code for venmo or cash on the door for suggested donations of $15 – $30.

SIGN UP TO READ. Please also RSVP via this ticket link, whether or not you intend to read.

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How does one do polyamory right?! What does “right” even mean? What happens when we move this pressure to be the “perfect poly person” when we all have fears, jealousy, and compulsory monogamy and heteronormativity to unlearn. How do queer and trans people construct joy under systems designed to limit us? What about the mess, the joy, the fears, the compersion, the laughs, the group chats, the expansive love?! Let’s be BAD together.

Whether it’s your first time reading into a mic, of your tenth – all are welcome. Sign up to read here. We can’t wait to laugh/scream/cry with you. Read from your journal, notes app, manuscript, published book, favourite poem etc. All forms of literature are welcome, as well as music, performance, or other creative arts. (If you’re unsure if your piece is a fit, DM @badpoly___ with your idea and we will do our best to accommodate!)

Bad Poly is a regular reading series that happens quarterly. Follow @BadPoly___ for more!

So bring a pal, partner(s), polycule, and we’ll see you there for the inaugural BAD POLY open mic & fundraiser!