Parker Mcmullen Bushman

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Loving at the Intersections

Polyamory, Queerness, Race, and Body Politics

Sunday, August 23rd

8:30 am

Room: Maroon Bells

Polyamory doesn't exist outside the social world. How we love, date, and communicate is shaped by race, gender, queerness, body size, disability, and other lived experiences. For many of us, nonmonogamy is also about navigating belonging, visibility, safety, and power.

This session explores polyamory at the intersections of queerness, race, and body politics — unpacking how beauty standards, racism, anti-fat bias, and respectability politics show up in dating and community spaces, and how marginalization affects desirability, access, emotional labor, and feeling truly seen. We'll also explore building poly communities rooted in consent, care, accountability, pleasure, and liberation, with reflection, language, and tools for more affirming connection.

Parker McMullen Bushman is a speaker, facilitator, and justice-centered educator whose work sits at the intersections of identity, belonging, culture, and systems change. As founder of Summit For Action and CEO of Ecoinclusive Strategies, Parker has led workshops, keynotes, and learning experiences nationwide on equity, inclusion, queer identity, power, bias, communication, and community transformation.

Parker is a queer, non-binary, polyamorous Black facilitator who brings both professional expertise and lived experience to conversations about relationships, desire, and belonging. Their approach is honest, grounded, and reflective, inviting people into deeper truth-telling about how race, body politics, gender, and queerness shape our lives and connections. Across professional, community, and movement spaces, Parker is committed to helping people build relationships and communities rooted in care, accountability, and liberation.