A manual for loving justly in a complex, power-laden world. A decade after the celebrated but controversial 2014 book, The New More Than Two is More Than Two for the post-#MeToo era. The entirely rewritten The New More Than Two represents a complete conceptual reorientation focused on care, mutual accountability and empathy. It rejects hyper-autonomy as a distortion of earlier polyamory discourse, introduces explicit material on abuse in a nonmonogamous context, and situates its ethical analysis within a context of systemic power structures such as gender, colonialism and race. In this transformative collaboration, Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin bring together decades-deep lived experience, research on attachment and relationship diversity, and a justice-inflected approach to love, ethics and boundaries. You’ll find practical tools for communicating when jealousy or fear shows up, frameworks for crafting agreements that evolve, and a relational lens on power, consent, autonomy and integrity. Whether you’re solo, coupled, nested or embedded in an anarchic web of connections, this book meets you where you are. It’s also thoroughly inclusive of queer, kinky, ace, trans and nonbinary readers, and it addresses aspects of nonmonogamy that stretch well beyond romantic or sexual relationships. Drawing on the best of the original while reimagining it for a changed world, The New More Than Tw o is a guide for anyone seeking love that is both brave and kind. "While More Than Two was always highly regarded, it was time for an update to adjust for the way the landscape has changed in the last decade. The New More Than Two more than meets the need."—Kevin A. Patterson, M.Ed, author of Love's Not Color Blind and the For Hire series “Rickert and Zanin accomplish a tricky task, discussing an often-misunderstood topic in a direct but respectful manner. Without holding nonmonogamy up as in any way as superior to monogamy, they offer their readers a glimpse at the reality that nonmonogamy can hold as much joy and fulfillment for some as monogamy does for others.”—Race Bannon, author of Learning the Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking “Rickert and Zanin accomplish a tricky task, discussing an often-misunderstood topic in a direct but respectful manner. Without holding nonmonogamy up as in any way as superior to monogamy, they offer their readers a glimpse at the reality that nonmonogamy can hold as much joy and fulfillment for some as monogamy does for others.”―Race Bannon, author of Learning the Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking Eve Rickert is a Gen X, queer, solo polyamorous, relationship anarchist, neurodivergent cis woman living on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen territory on the west coast of the place currently known as Canada (Victoria, BC). She is the author of The New More Than Two and Nonmonogamy and Betrayal, curator of the More Than Two Essentials series and the nonmonogamy resource site morethantwo.ca, the founder and publisher of Thornapple Press, and the founder and mastermind of the science communications firm Talk Science to Me. Andrea Zanin , MA, is a white, nonbinary, middle-aged queer writer who lives in Tkaronto (Toronto, ON), on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Andrea’s writing focuses on nonmonogamy and BDSM/Leather. Andrea has written for the Globe and Mail , The Tyee , Bitch , Ms. , Xtra , IN Magazine , Outlooks Magazine and the Montreal Mirror . Their scholarly work, fiction and essays appear in a variety of collections. Andrea blogs at sexgeek.wordpress.com, where they created the 10 Rules for Happy Nonmonogamy and coined the term “polynormativity.” Their first book, Post-Nonmonogamy and Beyond , is also available from Thornapple Press. Dr. Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) (she/her) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Society, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science . In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions, Dr. TallBear studies the roles of the overlapping ideas of "sexuality" and "nature" in the colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands. Tatiana Gill (she/her) is a cartoonist drawing about mental health, addiction & recovery, abortion, and fat positivity. She has been drawing comics since early childhood and self-publishing her own comic books since the 1990s. Nalo Hopkinson has published seven novels and three collections of her short fiction, including her novel Blackheart Man and her short story collection Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions . She has received the John W. Campbell Award and the Nebula Award, and has thrice won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Fiction of the Fantastic. Nalo is a professor of
