524 - From Worried to Empowered: Taking Action for Relationship Rights with Experts Diana Adams and Brett Chamberlin

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

Sexuality, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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We're excited to welcome Diana Adams and Brett Chamberlin back to the show to discuss advocacy, relationship rights, and more. Diana Adams (they/them) is an international legal leader in advocacy for queer family forms beyond the romantic dyad. Diana is the Executive Director of Chosen Family Law Center, a nonprofit advocating for diverse family structures, & runs a boutique law firm providing mediation services nationwide for those hoping to negotiate intentional or polyamorous families. Diana’s TED talk ‘Why US Laws Must Expand Beyond the Nuclear Family’ explains their expansive vision of family. Find them on all socials @DianaAdamsEsq. Brett Chamberlin (he/him) is a social impact organizer with over a decade of leadership experience building a more just and joyous future. He is the founder and Executive Director of OPEN, the Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-monogamy. Prior to launching OPEN, Brett worked in the environmental movement as the Director of Community Engagement at The Story of Stuff Project and the co-founder of the Post Landfill Action Network. Check out the legislative toolkit from OPEN for ways to help further local legislation in your area: harvard.turtl.co/story/polyamory-legislative-toolkit. Download the 5 calls app to contact your representatives and hold them accountable: https://5calls.org/. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community. Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack. Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand. Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	After a very long wait, we finally have an audiobook version of our book, Multie Emery Essential Tools for Modern Relationships, read by yours truly.
0:10.1	And if you're looking for an easy way to learn and share our most popular communication tools, we have a book in print form and in audiobook form now.
0:19.2	Multi-Amory Essential Tools for Modern Relations relationships is a collection of our most popular tools
0:24.1	compiled with real-world examples, worksheets, discussion questions, and more.
0:28.8	This is a compilation of all the tools that we reference the most often, like Radar,
0:32.9	the Triforce of Communication, Repair Shop, and more.
0:35.7	If you've ever wanted to be able to re-reference one of these
0:38.7	tools without having to dig through 500 back catalog episodes, getting our book or getting the
0:43.7	audio version is a great way to do that. You can buy our new audiobook on Audible, Spotify, Google
0:49.5	Play, or wherever you get your audiobooks. And the print and ebook versions are available from all booksellers.
0:56.5	Learn more, read reviews, and get links to purchase at multiamery.com slash book.
1:05.4	I think right now what we're trying to do is we are building fortresses around those aspects of our democracy.
1:11.4	We're trying to get, you know, you need your congressperson to be speaking up. That's one way to
1:16.2	make impact. I'd say one of the best ways for a lay person to make impact is that there's the
1:21.2	five calls app and you put in where you live. They pull up, you know, who are your elected representatives,
1:28.0	what are the issues you're interested in?
1:29.0	And they give you a script.
1:30.0	And it's like, okay, call your congressperson, they're being lousy on this, tell them what
1:34.2	to do.
1:35.2	Okay, here's the script, make the call, great, right?
1:37.6	Those are ways to be involved and make sure that your congressperson is doing what they can.
1:41.3	And then within your state, you know, being involved in protecting that
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