Radical Relating

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TopicSelf-help

AuthorMel Cassidy

PublisherNorth Atlantic

A Queer and Polyamory-Informed Guide to Love Beyond the Myth of Monogamy

A provocative, trauma-informed guide to post-monogamy—how to build liberated relationships rooted in empowerment, equity, and authenticity

An empowering guide to imagining (and living) better relationships, Radical Relating pushes back on the monogamy mandate. Author, somatic educator, and relationship coach Mel Cassidy explodes the often-unquestioned mainstream myths about the nuclear family structure: those that tell us your soulmate must be your sole mate. That sex is the only yardstick of relational success. That self-sacrifice and self-denial are necessary tradeo­s for security and partnership. That we need to ride the relationship escalator all the way up, or we’ll die alone.
In four sections, Cassidy explains the why, what, how, and where of the Radical Relating model. They:

• Lay out clear-eyed analysis about why monogamy isn’t working and explain the harms of unquestioned internalized mono-normativity
• O¢er Reflective Journaling prompts, Somatic Pauses, and practical wisdom for assembling your Relational Toolkit
• Explain the trauma-informed pillars of Radical Relating: Orientation, Resilience, Resolution, and Engagement
• Help you reorient to a new map for relating that’s queer, anarchist, and somatically integrated
• Help you build skills to understand and navigate your relationship landscape
• Explore the intersections of monogamy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism and illuminate how monogamous relationship structures emerged with one goal in mind: to consolidate capital

Most books on non-monogamy focus on top-level logistics and play into beliefs that can inadvertently replicate oppressive structures. Radical Relating is di­erent: it speaks to readers who want not only to open up their relationships or expand their sexual experiences, but claim new and liberating ways to relate to each other, fulfill our authentic needs, and build true communities of care beyond monogamy.

FRESH TAKE ON A HOT AND EMERGENT TOPIC: O­ers practical how-to guidance and provocative commentary; destined to become a poly classic.

GROWING MARKET: Poly, alternative, and non-traditional relationship models are on the rise and more visible than ever.

GOES DEEPER than a 101-level how-to; helps readers identify and deconstruct the capitalistic and patriarchal inequities that embed even in open and poly relationships

THE ANTI- “POLY BRO” GUIDE: Explicitly feminist, antiracist, decolonial, and built on principles of radical equity in a relationship model too often co-opted by misogyny and ownership