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The myth of the 'risky' open relationship

Let's talk about the hand-wringing over Lily Allen's 'nonmonogamummy' album. Plus: Is marriage 'cool again'? Are boyfriends 'embarrassing'? And other questions in the weekend roundup.

Tracy Clark-Flory

Nov 2

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Hey! Happy Sunday. Welcome to the roundup.

I revealed my book cover this week. If you missed it, click through to see it! I’m on the cover, along with my mom and my sister Kathy.

My memoir, My Mother’s Daughter, comes out May 5, 2026 and it’s officially available for pre-order. It’s about a DNA test connecting me with my sister, who my mom placed for adoption twenty years before I was born. The whole reason I took the test was to find her.

I already knew that my mom was sent to a home for unwed mothers as a pregnant teenager in the Sixties. But after finding my half-sister Kathy, we started asking questions about the past that our mom, who had died years earlier, couldn’t answer. So, I set out to make sense of what happened back in 1965.

I learned that our mom was pulled into a racist and sexist system designed to turn “bad girls” into proper women and wives. It was meant to reinforce the white nuclear family norm. I realized that my own life had been profoundly shaped by my mom’s past, but I also uncovered a bigger story—about shame, family secrets, race, and the control of women’s bodies.

This book is also about the power of sisterhood and the importance of understanding all that we inherit from our mothers.

Please pre-order a copy now if this sounds like something you want to read—and if you believe that the world needs a book like this one, especially in these times. Early pre-orders are a signal to book sellers and my publisher to invest in this book and give it a chance out there. Your order, all these months ahead, makes a huge, huge difference.

Pre-order now!

“We’ve tried to make domestication sexy again—and I don’t like it,” writes smizzo. “As the cascade of celebrity weddings trashes our FYPs and collective psyche, we can see how we’re trying to make marriage appeal to the masses again. Make marriage cool again. … What the fuck is going on?” ...