Ashley, Lyndzi, and I will be at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee this week for two showings of "When Two Won't Do" the documentary on polyamory. It's put on by UWM's SEXPO series and the Department of Sociocultural Programming.

Here is the link to the list of events: http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/concerts/socio.html

Ashley and Lyndzi will be at the UWM Student Union on Tuesday, November 17th at 7:00pm for the first showing with a panel discussion including them and one other member from the Coming Out Poly sponsored Young Milwaukee Poly Group.

I will be at the UWM dorms (which I believe requires a photo ID to attend) at the same time on Wednesday, November 18th.

If you're interested in attending either show, please do. We'll be discussing it at the group on Wednesday evening, which will be meeting at its regular time -- 7:00pm at the Tool Shed.

Also (from Lyndzi), if you're not on the google group then you haven't been up to date on the Thanksgiving plans. It will take place at Lisa's house, which we will give the address out to everyone that's interested via email or at the group itself, on Sunday, Nov. 22nd (That's this Sunday, for the people like me that can't believe this month has gone so fast!). It's a pot-luck function, like the Poly Picnic, so bring something to pass if you're able to. Hope to see you then. ^__^

The long-awaited day has finally come (and gone) and now it really only remains to be seen what the general public have to say about it. The link below is the piece that TMJ4 did on us (Milwaukee's local channel 4, NBC affiliate).

http://www.todaystmj4.com/features/specialassignment/50975807.html?video...

A few comments:

The "catchy" promo for it that ran all day Friday was cheesy and racy. They intentionally used the phrases "love triangle" and "provocative new look on marriage." It wasn't terribly sensationalized, but it gave me a start when I first saw it.

The piece, in general, is tasteful. I think they did a decent job of portraying us in a generic - neither gung-ho positive or lynch-them-in-the-square negative - which I can deal with. We also didn't get any bad jokes from Mike Jacobs, which tends to happen after each of the "Special Assignment" pieces. That was nice.

A few corrections, though: they labeled a few people incorrectly. My girlfriend's name is Lyndzi. At about minute 1, they label her as Kris Jernberg, who is actually one of the members of our group - though the piece identifies her correctly in the script. So then at minute 1:40 that is Kris talking about not being a swinger; they label her as Rachel Keuler, who is Lyndzi's roommate. Lastly, Rachel (who is the woman with Jeff - the guy with the hat) is incorrectly labeled as the relationship - not sex - expert Judy Bruett.

It was obvious that the expert that they got to talk about relationships obviously has a) little knowledge about the practice of polyamory to generalized by saying "it would be asking for trouble" and b) doesn't agree with it. There are poly-friendly counselors and therapists in the area; I'm not sure why they didn't spend the time to look one of those up. But oh well.

I personally received five separate text messages last night with the general statement, "Hey, you're on tv." Some knew; some didn't, but they do now. It's nerve-wracking, but it's good to know that we're out there now, and anyone looking for a friendly face knows where to go.

Let us know what you think.