Hello and welcome to another episode of IWave with Jermina Jamele on podcast against shame.

I hope you're well and I hope you enjoy today's episode because it's one that specifically

for you guys as you've been asking me to cover this subject for ages. I have been trying to find

people to discuss polyamory with for a while now. I did touch on it with Bob the drag queen in

their excellent episode where they talked to me about their unique situation, which is becoming

by the way less and less unique as people normalize polyamory more, but polyamory is something

that a lot of people feel afraid to discuss because they're worried about being judged because

there's just still so much that we don't know about it and so many people fear it. And so I ask

the brilliant Ashley Ray and excellent comedian and voice in our generation to come on and explain

to me her experience with it how she found polyamory, the wrong assumptions people make and the

misunderstandings they have about polyamory all the different ways it can work. She teaches me new

terminology. I've left this conversation with my mind so much more expanded and being able to

understand my friends who are polyamorous even better. And so even if polyamory isn't for you,

it's something that is growing in people's needs and desires and lifestyles and I think it would

be cool for us all to learn as much as possible about it so that we don't accidentally cast judgment

or make wrong assumptions around this type of lifestyle that is really very loving and full of

consent and openness and and sounds quite safe now that I hear about it from Ashley. So we discuss

a multitude of other things I will let you find that yourself but because you had specifically

else for this I wanted to flag that I've done it and I honestly think I couldn't have found a better

person to come and talk to me about it. She's a delight. I hope you follow her and everything she does.

This is the excellent Ashley Ray.

Ashley Ray, how are you? I'm good. I... I mean we got a new Beyonce album, life is great.

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