The Future of Marriage Rights

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We are excited to bring you a fascinating conversation with Attorney Diana Adams (they/them) of the Chosen Family Law Center, a New York City-based non-profit which advocates for LGBTQIA and other non-traditional families of all backgrounds and descriptions. Diana is one of the nation’s leading advocates for rethinking how governments, courts, employers, and other institutions can accommodate committed relationships beyond the norms of romantic and/or sexual monogamy, including those involving more than two people, platonic partnerships, non-traditional parenting arrangements, and the many other ways in which people can choose to be in family relationships. Topics include (among many other things) the surprisingly racist history of the term “nuclear family,” developments in local and state law since the Supreme Court’s monumental recognition of full marriage equality in 2015, and what an immigration system not fundamentally based in a 1950’s conception of white heteronormative marriage might look like.

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“Why US Laws Must Expand Beyond the Nuclear Family,” Diana Adams (TED Talk)(3/25/2022)
“Three's Company, Too: The Emergence of Polyamorous Partnership Ordinances” - Harvard Law Review (March 2022)
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, Ryan, Christopher, Jetha, Cacilda (2010)

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0:00.0	Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
0:07.0	He gags me! What's my crime? I got bold and a little negligent? Nope!
0:23.0	Bales are coming to take away my will to live.
0:28.0	Fuck them, lo!
0:32.0	One count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.
0:37.0	I hate the Supreme Court.
0:47.0	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1063.
0:49.0	I'm Thomas Smith and in a moment I'm going to be joined by Matt and a special guest.
0:54.3	You know, it's been truly amazing and awe inspiring and so satisfying to watch the
1:00.1	DNC and see these amazing positive examples of family and
1:04.1	contrast that with the RNC which is you know supposed to be the party of family.
1:09.0	It's so funny I saw a thing just today that was like Republicans the party of family values and it just reminds me of when
1:17.4	Trump in 2016 just started saying the target message rather than trying to
1:23.2	they used to do a thing a political consultants would be hey try to come across as you know
1:27.6	strong or authoritative and Trump would just be like I'm strong and authoritative
1:32.3	he said I'm the law and order candidate.
1:35.3	And it reminds me of that. We're the family party, but they're not at all. They're the party of in
1:41.7	Trump's case, you know, several ex-wives who he cheated on.
1:45.2	The worst example of family that one could imagine.
1:48.3	Why am I talking about this? Well, one great thing about, I think, being on the left is,
1:52.2	while I think we very much can be and just are the party of family values in a real sense because families need things like you know health care and stuff and that's very important. We're also not bound by any
2:06.1	puritanical religious idea of what a family has to be and that's really cool.
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