Haili Blassingame

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294 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Jun

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Thanks so much for having me.

So much NPR in that bio.

Gosh.

Oh, God, do you have 10 hours?

Okay, so first the inspiration.

I was in an open relationship for several years in my early 20s.

And I really just stumbled into it.

It was like my college sweetheart.

You'll notice some similarities.

And I just remember being like, we should be in an open relationship.

I was excited.

And then I started telling people in my life and they're like, girl, what are you talking about?

Like I got a lot of communal pushback that I hadn't anticipated.

And this is around the time that Sally Rooney wrote Conversations with the

Friends, 2017.

So you had some books that gesture at non-monogamy, but weren't necessarily dealing with what it means to exist, not in a vacuum with it.

And so I think as a Black woman, that was what I was saying.

I went to school in the South.

an HBCU.

And so my experience was entirely different, where it was like coming out, and I hadn't, I was not trying to come out as anything.

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