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🌈Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘

At SAGE Lab, we recognize and affirm that ALL consensual romantic and sexual relationships are valid, deserving of respect, support, and understanding.

See alt text for some of the many diverse relationships people have. 💕
Happy Valentine’s Day! At SAGE Lab, we recognize and affirm that ALL consensual romantic and sexual relationships are valid, deserving of respect, support, and understanding. Here are a few of the many diverse relationships people engage in. Consensual Non-Monogamous (CNM) relationships: in these relationships, all partners explicitly agree that everyone involved may have romantic and/or sexual relationships with others. Often colloquially referred to as “open” relationships. Polyamorous relationships involve long term romantic and/or sexual relationships with more than one person at the same time. Often colloquially referred to as a “throuple ” when there’s three people in the relationship. Asexual relationships are loving and fulfilling relationships center romantic feelings, and may or may not include partnered sex. Dom-Sub relationships involve BDSM/kink partners consensually engaging in power exchanges or role-play, like being dominant and/or submissive in their sexual and/or romantic lives. Cuckold relationship involve one partner experiencing sexual pleasure from their romantic and sexual partner consensually being sexually intimate with another person. To learn more see Hammack, P. L., Frost, D. M., & Hughes, S. D. (2019). Queer intimacies: A new paradigm for the study of relationship diversity. The Journal of Sex Research, 56(4-5), 556-592.
February 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
February 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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As I say every year on Women In Science Day:

There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist.

Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.
February 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
Nobody wants an emergency, but perhaps we should want some of the remarkable things that can happen during them. On the top of my list of those things is how in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake,  people take care of each other and work together without the kind of vetting and fretting whether they agree entirely about politics or religion or other matters. We are in an unprecedented emergency in the United States with fallout that poses threats to environments, economies, human rights and even survival beyond our borders, and we could use some of that energy. As political scientist Erica Chenoweth said in Saturday's Meditations in an Emergency interview, "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."  Right now the courts are doing important business as they render verdict after verdict against Trump and Musk thanks to lawsuits brought by states, federal employees, and others with standing. Some of the Democrats in office are being amazing, and others in the opposition party are being waffles, milquetoasts, cookies that crumble, and other  refined-carbohydrate items. As is now clear, the administrative branch of the federal government of the United States is engaging in a coup attempt against the legislative and judicial branches, against the law and constitution itself, and against your rights and mine and the security and stability of the world. They can be defeated and at a minimum held in check, and the sooner they are the more limited the damage. But as Chenoweth points out, it's up to us. Are we up to it?
February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM