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Dr. Matthew Skinta
@mattdamonsk.bsky.social
Associate professor in Roosevelt University’s PsyD program. 🏳️‍🌈 Studies SGM well-being. Trainer of ACT/FAP/CFT. Practicing 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 he/him/his
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From safety to safeness

With @mattdamonsk.bsky.social I explore Paul Gilbert’s idea that beyond physical safety, what we lack is social safeness: relationships that let us be vulnerable, authentic, and accepted. Social exclusion leaves wounds.

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Cults, Conversion Therapy & Conservative Attacks on LGBTQ+ Rights
YouTube video by Cult Expert - Dr. Steven Hassan
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September 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
April 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Crucial point made here — we should learn from others rather than imagine that everything is new and therefore shocking and impossible to resist.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
So You Want to Be a Dissident?
A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.
www.newyorker.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Pleased to see my sexuality and gender scholar peers (as editors) taking this stance, and challenging the political encroachment on academic freedom under the current US Administration.
@cygraham.bsky.social & colleagues 👏✊

Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM