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Mia Freedman

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Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

100%.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

So big, big deal.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

So that's who Lindy West is.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

You might also be familiar with her work.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

She wrote a memoir called Shrill, which was a big success, a New York Times bestseller, and then it got picked up and turned into a really well-received TV show.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

You might have heard her when she was at the peak of all of that kind of internet culture writing.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

She came on No Filter and spoke to me about Shrill, I think back in 2017.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

So she's a big deal.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

The reason we're talking about her is she's got a new memoir out.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

We talked about memoirs on Friday and about the importance of truth or not when it comes to memoir.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

Lindy's new memoir is called Adult Braces.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

And it kind of picks up a bit where Shrill left off, which is at the end of Shrill.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

So Lindy, obviously, as Amelia said, was written about all these important feminist issues.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

In 2015, Lindy got married.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

She married her partner, musician and writer, Ahamefule Oluo, who she always refers to as Aham.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

Right.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

So she and Arham married.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

I remember the pictures so clearly, this beautiful, very like hipster wedding.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

And then in 2022, so seven years after their marriage, Lindy and Arham and another woman called Roya came out, as it were, as a throuple.

Mamamia Out Loud
Polyamory, Cheating & The Marriage No One Wants To Believe

so that there are three of them in their relationship, and they talked about their polyamory.