Hi! I’m Michelle Hy

I am a second generation Asian-American, the daughter of Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants, born and raised in Portland, Oregon.

I have been practicing non-monogamy since 2012 and am cultivating a space on this little corner of the internet that helps people question mononormativity, destigmatizes polyamory, and helps make it more accessible and viable — especially for BIPOC and other largely underrepresented groups in non-monogamy communities. I strongly believe that the personal is political and that because relationships do not exist in a vacuum, it is important to discuss non-monogamy from an intersectional lens rather than simply trod out the same advice about jealousy, metamours, etc. time and time again. I go through my non-monogamy story fairly thoroughly on an episode of the Multiamory Podcast, which you can listen to here.

Mother to two cats, Basil and Reginald. Got a B.A. in Applied Linguistics, which I don’t really use in a professional capacity. Find me lounging around at home or staying up way too late at a karaoke bar.

I offer non-monogamy peer support sessions and have a casual interview series amplifying the stories of non-monogamous BIPOC called Non-Monog Dialogues on Instagram and Youtube.

You can also find my articles here.