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Kellyann May Navarré 🐼 🤟🏻
@kellyannnavarre.bsky.social
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Clinical Psych MA. Psych+Disability Studies UT & CSU Alum. PD ABCT Diversity Task Force Chair. The word you're looking for is Disabled #POTS #BPD #Fibro #BiInSci🌈 She/They
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Flight home from ISSPD was the coolest flight ever @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social @michaelle.bsky.social (and not just because the three of us happened to be on it..)

Even if a little delayed.. we flew straight through the aurora borealis. I have always wanted to see them 😍 So close, visible, unreal 🩵
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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.
Me standing in front of a yale backdrop and next to a cardboard cutout of the yale dog mascot Me and Emily standing in front of a yale backdrop and next to a cardboard cutout of the yale dog mascot Me and Emily standing for our research talk by the mic Stuffed animal panda wearing a yale t shirt at the bookstore
September 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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.
Sunflowers bundle
September 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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4) They also pulled one of these out somehow too??? Yall im tired. I hate poor critical thinking mixed with condescending tones and some laziness disguised as "academic rigor." Something tells me you don't get responses like this as frequently when you're in other lines of work.
August 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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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! 💙
On behalf of the ABCT 2025 Program Committee, I am delighted to inform you that your Symposia, 2083849: Mindfulness in Daily Life: Cultivating Mindful Engagement to Improve Wellbeing, was accepted for presentation at ABCT's 59th Annual Convention to be held November 20 - 23, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Please inform your co-presenters as you are the only person who will receive official notification.
June 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Join our #SRS25 symposium tmrw 2 PM EST: "Leveraging Qualitative Methods to Advance Suicide Prevention in Under-Researched Communities" + featuring some work I'm honored to collaborate on!
@suicideresearchsym.bsky.social @kathrynfox.bsky.social @drjessicaphd.bsky.social @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social
THURSDAY, APRIL 24 Concurrent Symposium Sessions Thu 2 PM - 3:30 PM Leveraging Qualitative Methodologies to Advance Suicide Prevention Efforts in Under-Researched Communities Key Words interventions suicide prevention, qualitative research, diversity, minority Kellyann Navarre, B.A., M.A. Chair University of Toronto, Advisory Committee Jessica Schwartzman, Ph.D. Presenter Children's Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Disclosure Experiences of Autistic Adolescents and Parents: A Qualitative Study Kailyn Phillips, Others Presenter Vanderbilt University Examining Identity-Related Experiences of SGM Youth at Risk for Suicide in the Southeastern U.S. Juno Pinder, B.S., M.A. Presenter University of Denver Adolescent Feedback and Perspectives on a Self-Guided Digital Safety Planning Intervention Megan McDaniel, B.A. Presenter University of Wisconsin - Madison Thematic Relationships of Proximal Social Connection and Mental State with Suicidal ideation: An Ecological Study Spencer Chen, B.A. Presenter Simon Fraser University Unpacking 'A Life Worth Living' and What Helps People Choose Life During Suicidal Crises
April 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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March 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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In collaboration with the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD), the ABCT Personality/Personality Disorder SIG Diversity Task Force is sponsoring a webinar-symposium featuring a series of presentations discussing the intersections of identity, bias, and dx in BPD!
In collaboration with the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, we organized a webinar-symposium event featuring a series of research presentations. Anyone is welcome!! Join us for a virtual symposium exploring the intersections of identity, bias, and diagnosis in borderline personality disorder (BPD). Speakers will discuss the role of race, age, gender, disability and other diverse experiences in shaping how BPD is understood, studied and diagnosed. The speakers will present their studies, methods, results and conclusions. Event: Understanding Bias and Diversity in Borderline Personality Disorder - Who Gets Represented, Who Gets Diagnosed? When: Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST Register Here: https://neabpd-org.zoom.us/.../WN_c4N4FpQGSk2Y5CRxZW3EPg... Speakers: 1. Abby Ingber, NEABPD Executive Director, Symposium Co-Chair 2. Kellyann Navarre, MA, Diversity Task Force Chair, Symposium Co-Chair - “BPD Stigma in Physical Healthcare Settings” 3. Matt Southward, PhD, The Ohio State University, Personality/Personality Disorder ABCT SIG Chair 4. Ariel Montague, BA, Brown University, - “Equitable Representation of Black Women in BPD Studies” 5. Carla Sharp, PhD, University of Houston - “Bias in BPD Measure for Black/African American Adolescents” 6. Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, PhD, University of Michigan - “BPD Diagnostic Bias”
March 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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If you know the slightest bit about me, you know that I know lived experience is essential for research. And I am not casting doubt on community based efforts, which already may be approached with resistance or arrogance.

YET, dialectically, I also know lived experience in itself is not sufficient.
Perhaps it will seem obvious by now, but it's worth emphasizing that being disabled or claiming a disability identity says very little about a person's experience of ableism, let alone their position in the broader social hierarchy, and still less about their political orientation to their position or the hierarchy. Disability, it turns out, doesn't mean a whole lot by itself. Much in the same way that Marquis Bey argues that a person's racial identity is "not an a priori determinant of politicality," neither can disability be confidently or consistently tethered to an anti-ableist politic (2017, 277). As Texas governor Greg Abbott exemplifies, many disabled people do quite the opposite of anti-ableism by working within an "ideology of uplift," to borrow from Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, which brands itself as a form of diversity work, despite ultimately functioning "in the interest of empire" (2013, 49). This iteration of anti-ableism isn't really about countering ableism-at least, not the structural force of it. Anti-ableism that is focused only on uplift, on progress, on access, on re-capacitation/cuperation/habilitation is just ableism lite. True anti-ableism requires both an awareness of power as networked and a committed pursuit of collective liberation across that network. "No body or mind can be left behind," explains the disability justice-based performance project Sins Invalid in its "10 Principles of Disability Justice," "only moving together can we accomplish the revolution we require" (2015). This is an anti-ableism with a critical wingspan broader than the category of disability, a politic feathered out across the variegated identities, communities, and geographies impacted by the violently uneven distribution of humanity.
January 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Truly fantastic time in Philly @abctnow.bsky.social! Our panel was so thorough + impactful. Here are some photos (ft @ttissera.bsky.social, @katieleedg.bsky.social, @ruofan.bsky.social, me, @jrpeters.bsky.social, and @drshireenrizvi.bsky.social left too fast (she's in the second photo).

#ABCT2024
A group picture of the panel discussion from left to right: Talia Tissera, Katie Dixon-Gordon, Ruofan Ma, Kellyann Navarre (me), and Jess Peters. Shireen Rizvi on our panel left too soon after for the photo! A group picture of the panel discussion sitting down. This new picture includes Shireen Rizvi on the far right. Me and Spencer Xin Chen motioning to our poster presentation titled, "What makes life worth living? A qualitative study of suicidal community adults" The view outside the hotel at night. Featuring the light up Hard Rock Cafe sign and restaurant, cross walk, some cars, tall buildings and digital billboards
November 21, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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It's the early days of twitter again. I posted this when I first started my twitter account, so I am obligated to do so here.
A picture of someone talking to a brick wall
November 14, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Fun with Qual Team B knocking out our codes for the stigma manuscript! 🫡 @wanirisha.bsky.social and Blueskyless @ Megan 🩵 @psychinout.bsky.social
Screen shot zoom image of me (Kellyann Navarre she/they), Wan Irisha Wan Isa (Iris) and Megan smiling with our thumbs ups
January 21, 2024 at 4:34 AM