The Wisdom of Love - A Double Book Launch - June 22 - San Rafael, CA - 7 PM

Deborah Taj Anapol and Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

discuss 

The Wisdom of Love 

in their new books 

Polyamory in the 21st Century 

and 

Gaia and the New Politics of Love

in this unique double book launch 

Is the love of wisdom nothing but the wisdom of love?

What's the future of love on planet Earth?

Why write about polyamory today? 

Two wise poly women writers answer your questions!

                                    

                                                DATE: Tuesday, June 22

                                                TIME: 7 PM

                                                Cost Per Person
                                                          $ 8   Prepaid ($ 10 at door)

                                                          $ 14 Prepaid with signed copy of Gaia

                                                Deep discounts when you treat friends!

                                                WHERE: Open Secret Bookstore 
                                                                   923 C St.
                                                                   San Rafael, CA

                            Due to limited space, RSVP early!

Great discounts when you sign up now by yourself, and with one or two friends.  Check drop down menu:                                   1 Door Charge $8.00 1 Door Charge + 1 Book $14.00 2 Door Charges + 1 Book $20.00 2 Door Charges + 2 Books $26.00 3 Door Charges + 1 Book $28.00 3 Door Charges + 2 Books $33.00 3 Door Charges + 3 Books $38.00

 Book Descriptions:

Polyamory in the 21st Century: Love and Intimacy with Multiple Partners, by Deborah Taj Anapol, provides a perceptive overview of the whole range of intimate relationships that don’t conform to our culture’s monogamous ideal but endeavor to be honest, ethical, and consensual. It addresses the practical, the utopian, and the shadow sides of this intriguing, yet often challenging lifestyle while shedding light on the reasons people choose polyamory and how their lives have changed as a result. Drawing on recent findings from many disciplines, Polyamory in the 21st Century helps the reader comprehend the dynamics of long term open marriages as well as more tribal and fluid intimate networks and everything in between. ON SALE IN EARLY JULY!  (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)

Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet, by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, is the first study that links global peace, health, and ecology to the sexual freedom movement and polyamory. The book presents the concept of Gaia, the live planet, as the scientific basis to argue that the arts of loving can 'save the planet' because they are a form of the arts of healing. Therefore, the world needs a new politics of love where sharing amorous resources is a virtue. Polyamory is the subculture where the arts of sharing these resources honestly, fairly, and compassionately can be learned. These practices can turn hatred into love, fear into hope, scarcity into abundance. (North Atlantic Books, 2009.)

Authors:

Deborah Taj Anapol, PhD, has taught psychology and human sexuality at the University of Washington in Seattle and Antioch University in San Francisco, and has led seminars on love, sex, and intimacy all over the country and around the world. She is the author of Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits and The Seven Natural Laws of Love.

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD, is a professor of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. She is the author of Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, and the editor of Plural Loves and Bisexuality and Queer Theory.  She teaches courses, workshops, and seminars on the practice of love and the science of Gaia.

Treat yourself to this event with your favorite friends!

Discount options to sign up by yourself and with one or two friends.  See drop down menu:

1 Door Charge $8.00 1 Door Charge + 1 Book $14.00 2 Door Charges + 1 Book $20.00 2 Door Charges + 2 Books $26.00 3 Door Charges + 1 Book $28.00 3 Door Charges + 2 Books $33.00 3 Door Charges + 3 Books $38.00

Memorable quotes:

"A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live." 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

"Let jealousy be your teacher." Deborah Taj Anapol, PhD

"Is the love of wisdom nothing but the wisdom of love?" Deborah Taj Anapol and Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio (from an intuition of Luce Irigaray's)

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In the same venue, treat yourself to a full-day workshop on July 3rd! 

Click here for info and to sign up!

Dinner Talk - World Polyamory Association - Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 25-27, 2010

Annual Conference

World Polyamory Association





with Sasha and Janet Lessin and Deborah Taj Anapol

Harbin Hot Springs, California, June 25-27, 2010

Experience full immersion in the ecstasy of WPA's tantric community!
Sign up now to secure best accommodations! Only $ 327 per person until April 30!

WPA Conference Online Registration

Dinner Talk:

Gaia Science: Path to Love, Health, Relatedness

The Gaia Hypothesis is probably the most important scientific hypothesis of our time.  It is the foundation for the paradigm shift toward the new system of knowledge that will enable humanity to make peace with Gaia, the third planet.  The hypothesis is based on the science of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis.  It this hypothesis is true, then the entire web of life, including ourselves, is a live body made of symbiotic, interconnected elements.  This means that we humans are all already always related.  What is a healthy way to do relationships in this context?  It is the most natural way to connect to that already existing relatedness and allow its potential to become actualized in the most authentic form.  So, Gaia science indicates a path to love, health, and relatedness that honors polyamory as a style of love conducive of the paradigm shift nature- and peace-loving people want to create. 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio gave the keynote address at the 2007 Loving More and World Polyamory Association conferences.  She has been interviewed on Italian public TV about her books on practices of love that include bisexuality and polyamory.  She is an academic, an activist, a writer and a healer.  Her numerous books include Gaia and the New Politics of Love (2009), Lambda finalist Eros (2007), Plural Loves (2005), Women and Bisexuality (2005), and Bisexuality and Queer  Theory (2010).  She leads workshops on Gaia, Eros, & the Sacred.  She has been published in and peer-reviews for several journals.  She is a professor of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and lives in Cabo Rojo, Western Puerto Rico.

¿Come Puede la Humanidad Hacer la Paz con el Planeta Tierra?

Conferencia Magistral con Presentacion de Libro 

Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayaguez

Edificio Chardon, Anfiteatro Figueroa-Chapel

Jueves, 11 de febrero, 2010, 10:30-12:00AM

La reconocida estudiosa de temas culturales, Dra. SERENA ANDERLINI-D'ONOFRIO, finalista del Premio Lambda, autora y editora de muchos libros, y proponente de la debatida Teoría de Gaia en el estudio de las humanidades, ofrecerá una CONFERENCIA MAGISTRAL el jueves, 11 de febrero, a la HORA UNIVERSAL (10:30-12:00), en el ANFITEATRO FIGUEROA CHAPEL.

La conferencia, títulada 
¿COMO PUEDE LA HUMANIDAD HACER LA PAZ CON 
NUESTRA AMABLE ANFITRIONA, EL PLANETA TIERRA? 
presentará los temas del mas reciente libro de la conferenciante
GAIA & the NEW POLITICS of LOVE: NOTES for a POLY PLANET
publicado en 2009 por el editorial North Atlantic Books, Berkeley.

La introduccion de la conferenciante es a cargo de la 
Dra. DIMARIS ACOSTA, Departamento de Biologia, RUM.

"Nuestra especie aparece estar en guerra con el planeta que ha desarollado el ambiente natural consono a la vida humana, con el calentamiento global como el mas reconocido ejemplo de tal hostlidad.  Las teoría científica conocida como Gaia nos indíca que esta guerra no la podemos gañar, ya que el precio seria derrumbar el mismo sistema de vidas interconnectadas que nos ha dado hospitalidad.¿Como podemos lograr la paz?  Es necesario un cambio en el paradígma cultural.  La conferencia presentará las nuevas políticas del amor que ayuden a realizar este cambio, así como las aplicacions prácticas que le pueden corresponder."

La conferencia de TEMA INTERDISCIPLINARIO 
se presenta como parte del CICLO DE HUMANIDADES.  
Se seguirá por un animado debate moderado por el 
Dr. HECTOR HUYKE, Departamento de Humanidades, RUM.

QUE PARTICIPEN SIN FALTA Y QUE ANIMEN A 
TOD@S SUS ESTUDIANTES EN PARTICIPAR.   
¡NO PUEDEN PERDERSE ESTA UNICA OPORTUNIDAD!
QUE EXTIENDAN LA INVITACION A MEMBR@S DE LA COMUNIDAD Y 
ORGANIZACIONES INTRA- Y EXTRA-MURALES INTERESADAS.

¡¡¡GRACIAS!!!

La Dra. SERENA ANDERLINI-D'ONOFRIO es catedrática en el Departamento de Humanidades, RUM.  Además del libro presentado, es autora de Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves (2007), y de The 'Weak' Subject (1998); es editora de Plural Loves (2003), Women and Bisexuality (2003), y de Bisexuality and Queer Theory (2010); y es traductora de In Spite of Plato (por la filosofa italiana Adriana Cavarero, 1995) y de A Lake for the Heart (por el politico italiano Luigi Anderlini, su defunto padre).  Ella ha sido invitada a dar conferencias magistrales en California, Filadelfia, y Londres. 

COPIAS del LIBRO presentado estarán disponibles para l@s interesad@s.

Para mas informacion acerca de la Dra. SERENA ANDERLINI-D'ONOFRIO:
http://www.serenagaia.com
http://www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings
http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/

Gracias por su atencion, y que disculpen las duplicaciones en anunciar.

¡LES ESPERAMOS!

¿Que es el poliamorismo? - UPR Mayaguez - March 2, 2010

¿Del Otro Lao?: Perspectives on Queer Sexualities
UPR Mayaguez, March 2-4, 2010

¿Que es el poliamorismo?

Serena will be presenting the ideas, practices, organizations, styles of love and amorous relatedness, and movement  that characterize polyamory in our time, including 'compersion,' 'responsible non-monogamy,' 'expanded families,' 'diads,' 'tirads,' and 'pods,' the World Polyamory Association, Loving More, Polyamory Weekly, National Poly leadership, and the paradigm shift in which polyamory participates.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 3:30-3:45PM
This event is free of charge and open to the public
Edificio Chardon, Anfiteatro Figueroa Chapel
Come in early to secure your seat!