On June 2nd, OPEN’s Executive Director, Jessa Davis, accepted the City of Kirkland, WA’s Pride Proclamation, affirming that all love is valid, that all families matter, and that each individual has “the freedom to build their lives and relationships on their own terms.”

A recent article in The Atlantic titled “Polyamory, the Ruling Class’s Latest Fad” attempts to offer a wide-ranging criticism of polyamory and those who practice it. What it ultimately delivers is a deeply incurious, consistently sour, and occasionally downright contemptuous critique which betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of contemporary American polyamory.