If you hire a sensitivity writer and they give you feedback that you should actually take it and then a lot of people will do this, they'll hire a sensitivity writer for those sorts of, that kind of input, knowing that they'll say, hey, so these are the things I noticed that this is kind of weird,

or this feels like you're sort of exoticizing or fetishizing or, you know, these different things,

and then the author would come back to them, like, well's not though because you see you know this

that and the other thing or this is really what I'm doing here and it reminds me

of that kind of idea where it's like we want your ideas but only if we want

the palatable too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Welcome to the multi-ammery podcast.

Jayce.

I'm Emily and I'm dedication. we believe in looking to the future of relationships

Not maintaining the status quo of the past. So whether you're monogamous polyamorous

Swinging casually dating or if you just do relationships differently,

we see you, and we're here for you. I did forcing me to for myself to fit. On this episode of the Multiannary Podcast we're talking about community diversity

and tokenism with Crystal Bird Farmer. Crystal is a polyamorous speaker and writer from North Carolina.

She is the website editor for Black and Poly and a board member with the Foundation

for Intentional Communities.

Crystal is passionate about encouraging people to change their perspectives on diversity,

relationships, and the world. She recently published the book The token, Common Sense Ideas for

increasing diversity in your organization.

Crystal, thank you so much for joining us today.

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