About

So, who am I and what gives me the right to pass judgement on movies or polyamory?  Well, first of all, nothing gives me the "right" because access to pop culture and media is a privilege, and I have had the privilege to live in the country that leads the world in pop culture and media production since the inception of movie magic.

My name is Joreth and I have a background in film and broadcast television production and I currently work in live entertainment.  I went to film school after high school and I have worked in some branch of entertainment almost my entire life, including film, studio television, theater, concerts, and corporate public speaking events.

That certainly doesn't qualify me to have a definitive voice on pop culture and media.  But I have opinions on them anyway.

I am also polyamorous and have been since the late 1990s.  Well, technically, I have always been poly, but I discovered the term in the late '90s and have been identifying as poly since then.  I have been active in community organizing, leadership, and media training for the poly community since the turn of the century.  I bring my background in filmmaking and entertainment production to the poly community for organizing events and spearheading outreach projects.

I am also the Chief Media Archivist for the Kenneth R. Haslam Polyamory Collection at the Kinsey Institute, which is the premier collection of the history of the polyamorous movement and community.  For decades, I have been collecting examples of polyamory in movies and television to archive for posterity.  I have the largest private library of poly movies and shows in existence and I have shared this library with Kinsey because I believe strongly in the mission of the Kinsey Institute and of Ken Haslam's desire to record our collective origins.

To that end, I have put all my relevant experience together to create this podcast, where I watch the crap so you don't have to!  I have lots of opinions on what polyamory is and isn't, and on what makes an enjoyable movie.  I hope that my opinions, whether you agree with them or not, can help you to save some time and effort in making choices to support polyamory in pop culture and pop media, so that we can hopefully get more (and better) representation in media.