Therapist, columnist, social policy researcher | @hgse @penngse alum | @psychtoday @insidehighered @edu_post & more |
Joined July 2016
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Democrats flipped Texas blue! What an historic night ✨
And kudos to the Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center at @TexasSouthern University—the #HBCU affiliated source that many political news outlets have cited with timely data about elections across Texas!
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“Are you done dragging us yet…or?”
Full episode about 15 Signs Your Church Functions Like A Cult—my @PsychToday piece—on The Faith Community Virtual's YouTube.
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My latest for @PsychToday.
“I don’t want to burn down the church, but I don’t have a problem dismantling the aspects that are harming people,” Taylor told Christian Today.
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“The reason that we built this site is because I love the church and I love what the church can and should be. But what it is currently does not mirror that at all.”
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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Thanks @ThePeriodDoctor for a deeply informative, liberating, and humanizing discussion!
Your voice and perspective are so needed 🫶🏾✨
Great author talk at @kindred_stories about @fsmith827's newest queer Black romance novel, Love Is a Contact Sport.
In 2024, I wrote a @PsychToday essay on 10 conspiracies and stereotypes that bigots use to discredit, pathologize, stigmatize, and target queer and trans people. Here's the infographic.
Link to article below.
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Thanks to the Queer Relationship Institute for inviting me to talk about mixed-status/serodiscordant relationships and HIV/AIDS advocacy.
Here, we discuss HIV criminalization laws.
CC: @SouthernAIDSCo, @AIDSUnited, @PrisonPolicy, @pozmagazine, @BLACKandPINKorg, @TheBodyDotCom
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Thanks to @TheMightySite for publishing this in 2020.
Religious holidays can be difficult for queer people, so here are some affirmations to remind you of the worth of your spirit. You’re not alone.
Not only do you have a right to exist, your existence is divinely purposeful.
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You can listen to the Important Context! show—hosted
@byryansides––via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram.
Thanks to Ryan for the invitation, as well as to the other therapists who contributed to such a constructive and substantive conversation.
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You can listen to the Important Context! show––hosted
@byryansides––via Apple, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, or IG: li.sten.to/importantcontext
Here, two other queer Black therapists and I discuss why some queer Black men seem so uncomfortable/defensive when it comes to non-monogamy.
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You can listen to the Important Context! show––hosted @byryansides––via Apple, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram: li.sten.to/importantcontext
Here, @byryansides, myself, and other queer Black therapists address the judgement often felt in s*x positive spaces, like dark rooms––
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People will resent you when you ask them to explain the double standards that are exclusive to you.
Don't bark in my face about XYZ, then high-five someone doing the same thing or worse.
Be consistent or be quiet.
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“We cannot forget that Dr. King spent 15 years witnessing firsthand that there was no 'best' way to debunk or disarm white supremacy.
A doctorate didn’t help.
Devout Christianity didn’t help.
Colorblindness didn’t help.
Disavowing armed struggle didn’t help––
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Invoking the innocence of children and the frailty of the elderly didn’t help.
Not even critiquing the capitalist exploitation of poor whites helped, since he found that many wouldn’t help themselves if it meant helping Black people.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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You can watch The Shift, hosted by @marktravisrivera, anywhere you stream podcasts.
Tune in to hear about Mark’s artistic journey to becoming an author and creative director — a path of twists & turns, ups & downs, that has yielded profound reflection, resolve, and wisdom.
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Thanks again @theaidsmemorial archive for helping identify Paul Whitedy, a queer Black @upennlib librarian who––in the early 80s, before passing from AIDS––posed on a familiar bench on campus (steps in the background were unmistakable).
Sending a huge #WorldAIDSDay hug––
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Sending a huge #WorldAIDSDay2025 hug to everyone surviving stigma, everyone grieving, everyone archiving the early AIDS epidemic and humanizing its many scorned souls, and to all the sex educators & public health workers pressing on in this climate. 🫶🏾
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My elder cousin saw this photo in his 1970s social studies textbook––a photo he'd also seen at his grandmother's house––and spent decades researching Wessyngton, which is 10 miles from where I grew up.
The book he wrote on our ancestors: simonandschuster.com/books/T…
