The word "polyamory" and its earlier form "poly-amorous" enters the modern Western lexicon through Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart in the early 1990s, coined in the pages of Green Egg, a Neo-Pagan libertarian magazine. That origin matters, because the early Western polyamory movement was shaped by libertarian thinkers like Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein, a lineage steeped in individualism and often entangled with troubling racial politics. Heinlein is a clear example: celebrated in poly circles for