✨The holidays can be a beautiful mix of joy, connection, nostalgia… and also stress, overwhelm, and old family patterns that resurface the moment you walk through the door. If this season brings up complicated feelings for you, you’re not alone.

💜 October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month 💜 Did you know bisexual+ individuals, especially bi+ women, experience higher rates of intimate partner violence than their gay, lesbian, or heterosexual peers?

"I was trying to go for a retro video gamer vibe [for our podcast]. Especially when we first started putting social media stuff about our podcasts...Natalie’s Player 1, I’m Player 2 type, like old school video games," says @zoriamber.bsky.social #AcademicSky theacademicdesigner.com/2025/start-a...

“Uncovering the Gaps: The Impact of Historical Biphobia and Erasure on Bisexual+ Clients of Color and Sexual Wellness,” as part of the Association of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness’s (ACSSW) webinar series. 📅 Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, 10am–12pm CT | 11am–1pm ET #BiVisibilityMonth

✨Super excited that my copy of “Sex and Sexuality Handbook for the Helping Professional” by my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Alie Kriofske Mainella, arrived today! This book is just like Alie, approachable & super helpful! 🔗: titles.cognella.com/sex-and-sexu... #CounselorEd

✨Thank you to everyone who came out to the IWL Research Social: Feminist Evaluations of Structural Injustices hosted by the Institute for Women's Leadership Marquette University! 🔗Here’s my video w/initial findings here: youtu.be/EzsYnsSNfUI?... #LonelinessEpidemic #CounselorEd #CounselorEducation

✨It was so great getting to talk to Bailey and Jace, the co-hosts of the Bisexual Killjoy podcast, and just be in community with two fantastic bisexual killjoys! 💖💜💙 Thank you both for having me! 🥹 Make sure to check out their latest episode: open.spotify.com/episode/4YNE...

✨Our study on Operationalizing Microaffirmations for Queer and Transgender People of Color highlights a key finding: Microaffirmations—small but powerful signals of support— may carry the most weight when they come from trusted relationships. 🔗 Read here: tpcjournal.nbcc.org/operationali... 1/2

✨Super excited that my copy of “Sex and Sexuality Handbook for the Helping Professional” by my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Alie Kriofske Mainella, arrived today! This book is just like Alie, approachable & super helpful! 🔗: titles.cognella.com/sex-and-sexu... #CounselorEd

✨Thank you to everyone who came out to the IWL Research Social: Feminist Evaluations of Structural Injustices hosted by the Institute for Women's Leadership Marquette University! 🔗Here’s my video w/initial findings here: youtu.be/EzsYnsSNfUI?... #LonelinessEpidemic #CounselorEd #CounselorEducation

✨It was so great getting to talk to Bailey and Jace, the co-hosts of the Bisexual Killjoy podcast, and just be in community with two fantastic bisexual killjoys! 💖💜💙 Thank you both for having me! 🥹 Make sure to check out their latest episode: open.spotify.com/episode/4YNE...

✨Our study on Operationalizing Microaffirmations for Queer and Transgender People of Color highlights a key finding: Microaffirmations—small but powerful signals of support— may carry the most weight when they come from trusted relationships. 🔗 Read here: tpcjournal.nbcc.org/operationali... 1/2

✨NEW PUBLICATION!✨ Our latest research publication, “Operationalizing Microaffirmations for Queer and Transgender People of Color”, is now out in The Professional Counselor—and it’s Open Access! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Check it out: tpcjournal.nbcc.org/volume-15-is... #CounselorEd #LGBTQIAMentalHealth

I had the honor of writing a blog post for the Bisexual Resource Center (BRC) for #BiHealthMonth! In my post, I talk about some ways that mental health professionals can provide more affirming care for bi+ clients. 🩷💜💙 🔗: biresource.org/how-mental-h...

New episode of Therapy on a Tangent podcast available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube! Listen here: linktr.ee/therapyonata... #MentalHealth #Podcast #TherapyOnATangent

Our #CCBR director, Dr. Jerome E. Morris's recent election as the 2025 - 2026 president-elect for the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social was featured in the UMSL Daily. 🎉 🔗Learn more about Dr. Morris and this historic honor: blogs.umsl.edu/.../10/jerom... #CCBR #UMSL #UMSLProud #Education

It’s really discouraging when people say bi+ folks have privilege when we have high rates of depression, anxiety, disordered eating symptoms, domestic violence, etc. Idk about y’all, but those things are not what I think of when I hear the word “privilege”. 🧵1/2

🎉Congratulations to our #CCBR director, Dr. Jerome Morris, for being voted the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2025 - 2026 President- Elect! 🔗Read more here: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER... #CommunallyBonded #Education #EducationPolicy #AERA

🚨 Season 2 of Therapy on a Tangent has officially begun! 🎉 Our latest episode, "Scrolling, Streaming, Stressing!: Managing Media Overload," is out now! 📱🧠 🎧 Watch or listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube: linktr.ee/therapyonata... #TherapyOnATangent #MentalHealth #Podcast #CounselorEd

🎙️Our CCBR's director, Dr. Jerome Morris was featured in a new episode of the Total Information A.M. podcast this week! Listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts: www.audacy.com/podcast/tota... #CommunallyBonded #Podcast #BlackHistoryMonth #EducationPolicy

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

if i text you this just know you’re cooked

"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar

Serena Williams!

Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime show: Very demure. Very mindful. Very DEI. 10/10

What is biphobia? 🤔 According to the Bisexual Resource Center, biphobia, aka binegativity/bi+ antagonism, “is the fear of, hatred towards, or discrimination against bisexuality.” Examples: - Assuming that bi+ folks are promiscuous/greedy - Saying that bi+ individuals going through a phase

Welcome! 🤗

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✨It’s been a year since “Central City’s Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project” was released! Thanks to everyone who supported this book! If you haven’t already, make sure to get a copy today! #CentralCitysJoyAndPain #BookAnniversary #TBRPile #NonFictionBooks

✨Excited to share I’ll be joining the University of Missouri - St. Louis’s CACREP-accredited Counseling program in the fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor! #CounselorEd #CounselorEducation #AcademicSky

The number of Americans receiving psychotherapy increased by 30% during the pandemic, as sessions moved to teletherapy. But researchers found children from low-income families, Black children and adolescents, and adults with “serious psychological distress” have not not benefited from the boom.

Literally needs to be a viral video frfr‼️

Congrats on your first article publication @nicolermisra.bsky.social!!! 🎉🎉🎉

✨Hi! We are the Center for Communally Bonded Research (CCBR)! We're a collaborative team of established scholars & emerging leaders led by our founder, Dr. Jerome E. Morris. Website🔗: communallybonded.org #AcademicSky #CommunityCentered #CommunallyBonded #Education #EducationPolicy

Bound by BDSM: What Practitioners can teach Everyone about Building a Happier Life will be in print Fall 25. It joins my other books: Chasing Masculinity: Men, Validation & Infidelity and The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife: Power, Pragmatism & Pleasure in Women's Infidelity

Just heard my new (/first!) book "Bound by BDSM: What Practitioners Can Teach Everyone about Building a Happier Life" with first author @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social will be published in September or October of this year! It will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

What really pisses me off about California relying on incarcerated folks to fight fires is that they're doing this to save money. It's the fifth largest economy in the world. They pay incarcerated folks meager wages. This is labor extraction, and it uses natural disasters as cover. It's disgusting.

You know the rules!

So, now we need to worry about how we document clients' improvements? Ugh! Private insurers don't make access to or provision of services easy. #TherapistSky

I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

And now we’re going to have AI bots teaching white folks that they can talk to us any old way because I guarantee the algorithm or whatever the fuck is powering these AI bots on instagram was not written by a Black woman much less a Black queer woman. I’m really so mad about this

Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period? "End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text." This was a new tip for me. Glad to learn something new! www.nngroup.com/articles/wri...

And grades for this semester have been submitted! Away messages are on!!! 😫

From me, For Nikki 🚀 open.substack.com/pub/ravynn/p...

✨Earlier this year, I was invited to be part of an expert panel w/ amazing mental health professionals & advocates to aid in the creation of the SAMHSA’s “Evidence-Based Guide: Suicide Prevention Strategies for Underserved Youth”! Check it out 👇🏾 store.samhsa.gov/product/evid... #YouthMentalHealth

🚨 Looking for academic, former-academic, non-academic but STEMM interested, and generally positive/inspirational/inclusive accounts to follow👋 #openacademics #academics #academia #STEMM #DEI #community #mindset #mentalhealth #inclusive