I don’t post much here, but I’m so thankful for the Yale UPLiFT Lab.. their radical genuineness, opportunity, support, and community have shaped my growth and perseverance. It was an honor to be invited to speak about research at Yale’s recent Psychology Systems event.

I go on long mindfulness walks almost every day. Today, a lady who lives off the trail gave me sunflowers from her garden. She said she see's me stop along the trail to look at her flowers sometimes. Random act of kindness almost brought me to tears on a hard (but skillful) day.

Bluesky just never really did catch on the same did it? Tis boring

It’s #TraineeTuesday! Meet Kellyann Navarre, an Adjunct Psychology Professor at Michigan’s MCCC and a researcher with the Yale UPLiFT Lab and University of Toronto. Her work focuses on personality disorders and real-time outcomes like suicidality, NSSI, and emotion

dysregulation—particularly through an idiographic lens on identity and interpersonal processes in BPD. Kellyann also studies stigma, barriers to care, and DBT. Follow along @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social and learn more about their work on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kellyann-...

"We are talking about stigma with BPD for this paper because xyz." *proceeds with citations, examples, quotes" Reviewer: "But what about other disorders? Depression is stigmatized too! Why don't you talk about that! Also these examples are probably just misinterpretations"

1) Studying something like BPD, personality disorders, w other focuses on stigma too is hard bc literally no matter what you do, sometimes people get offended, fail to see the relevance of pd work, & then take it out on you, and it's way harder to get your work out there.

WHAT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE THE STOP SKILL! THANK YOU! I am ice ice baby

1) Life update! This fall, I’m thrilled to take on the role of Adjunct Psychology Professor! Returning to where my academic journey began, Michigan’s Monroe County Community College. The place & people who once helped me piece myself together are welcoming me back once more, full-circle.🎉🐺

I've heard "you're over qualified" so many times over the past 1-2 years that I'm starting to wonder if any of them ever considered how, as a visibly disabled, AFAB genderqueer, Deaf/HoH person etc, I've always had to be overqualified in life just to be given the slightest chance at ANYTHING.

I have the best friends and community ever. I am so beyond overwhelmed with support, connection, and gratitude as I learn to live my life again. I love everyone who’s chosen to walk with me in this life, in any way, at any time, in their own way. Especially now, as I find my way back.

The P/PD SIG's diversity travel award is 🌟LIVE 🌟This award is intended to defray travel costs associated with attending the upcoming @abctnow.bsky.social conference in New Orleans.

🗓 Deadline: Sept 29, 2025 @ 11:59 PM EST 🔗 Info + Application: sites.google.com/view/ppdiver... 📩 Submit to @kellyannnavarre.bsky.social : [email protected]

1) So grateful to share I’ve received a substantial travel award to participate in the Rare Disease Family Event in Novato, right by San Francisco. It covers nearly 100% of flight, hotel, transportation & meals! 🎉😭 This national event is hosted by the EveryLife Foundation @everylifeorg.bsky.social

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

If you care anything about treatment accessibility, esp DBT and are a clinician, and you voted for Trump and support this nonsense, You don't actually care anything about treatment accessibility. Please stop preaching about treatment accessibility. It is laughably hypocritical at this point.

On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

NOW THIS LOOKS LIKE A FUN WAY TO CELEBRATE! 🤩 #DogsOfBlueSky

"An absolute moral failure." Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨 Exciting news from our Diversity Task Force! 🚨 We now have a dedicated website highlighting our mission, initiatives, events, and the Diversity Travel Award (opening July 15th!) Learn more, donate, and stay updated: sites.google.com/view/ppdiver...

Seeing on IG that Patty Berne, co-founder & artistic director of the disability justice-based movement & performance project Sins Invalid, “joined the ancestors on May 29, 2025.” Berne was a brilliant practitioner of disability justice & their passing is a huge loss. RIP Patty Berne. sinsinvalid.org

I remember at the time I was writing my undergraduate honor thesis, whenever that was, thinking it was bad. I'm now looking back at it after my masters degree many years later and genuinely impressed with the level of writing, the level of thinking, and that an undergraduate did something like that.

This already happened to Ohio. Anyway, disability studies major is no longer a thing at UT

I think I rip both my nose piercings out in my sleep or something because twice in the last week, I have woken up with them missing. And those things do *not* fall out easy. I cannot find them ANYWHERE in my room. What in the world?!

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Breaking: The Trump administration is shutting down the national suicide hotline's service for LGBTQ kids. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 calls and texts per day. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of accessibility requirements for new construction via rulemaking. This unprecedented move, which seems to be illegal, could be the blueprint for other federal agencies to follow. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Another 2-mile run in the books. Well under 8 mins per mile, which apparently puts me in top 1% of female times according to the Army Physical Fitness Test. I’m not saying I’m joining the army, but if whatever this joke is *gestures wildly toward my life* doesn’t work out, you know where to find me.

Academics in positions of extreme privilege, who’ve come from privilege, are now finally experiencing true instability for the first time in their lives. They’re still not gonna have that lightbulb moment where they recognize that marginalized students have faced this all our lives, and that sucks

Doing mindfulness when you really just wanna cry & explode is amusing bc trying to notice thoughts, feelings & urges nonjudgmentally be like: *screaming in head* "I AM NOTICING A FEELING OF ANGUISH INSIDE OF ME. A SENSATION OF BEING STABBED. HOW INTERESTING. LETS ACT IN WISE MIND!!!"

My one and only ABCT @abctnow.bsky.social submission accepted! 🥹 I will be Discussant for “Mindfulness in Daily Life: Cultivating Mindful Engagement to Improve Wellbeing.” Grateful to the Yale UPLiFT Lab, our other presenters, & our symposium Chair, Dr. Emily Weiss! 💙

We all need people to see us for who we are. The lab I'm part of at Yale is that for me. Genuine. And they dont just blow me off. They are everything I strive to be. Wonderful models. They do what they do for the right reasons. And not to set the bar too low, but they don't psychologically abuse me.

I created THE ultimate DBT diary card.

The more I reach out, the more I realize how misunderstood and blissfully ignorant people are about my situation.

OMG

Our departmental DEI page got taken down likely to comply with Indiana law. In my capacity as an individual and also faculty member, I think this is indefensible. It’s also really noticeable that none of the “free speech on campus” grifters are even trying to pretend like they care about this.

I’m so sick of these stories. I’m exhausted, enraged & frustrated. Misogyny in medicine kills. The patriarchy kills. The health gap kills. We all have these stories. Some of us are lucky enough to survive, but many aren’t. Tell your stories. Keep screaming until this never happens again:

This university bookstore is a giant Stroop test

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

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I developed ME/CFS as a result of my vasculitis getting worse while it was being written over as psychosomatic. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

The rate of denials for people applying for SSDI approaches 90% on the first try, forcing the vast majority into appeals that can last years if they come at all. The system is designed to not acknowledge disabilities. You can't trust an ableist system to care for disabled people.

Counting down the days til our #ABCTStudentSymposium2025! Be sure to register on our website & check out our program: 1a812b7f-01db-43fd-b528-3a2cdc1be9c4.filesusr.com/ugd/3a1e4b_a...

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

Also linked in here is @slooterman.bsky.social's reporting on ADAPT's (one of the groups present today) civil disobedience in 2017. 19thnews.org/2024/09/disa...

New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Disabled protesters shut down a republican congressional hearing today because said repubs are trying to LITERALLY decimate Medicaid. They want to cut ~$88 *billion* from medicaid every year for 10 yrs for a total which, again— & this is important—*Essentially Equals The Entire Budget of Medicaid*.

Wonderful gifts in my inbox today. 🩵 I love the humans in the world who very much embody support, community, authenticity, allyship, respect, and integrity. They mean the world to me, for how they help me build my life worth living, and for the ripple effects they send out into the world.

Not sure if people understand what that bill is doing and targeting disability & class. First, getting approved/determined as disabled by the government is completely different than ACTUALLY having a disability & struggling to work regularly or with functioning etc. Who exactly is determining this?