Are you dreading seeing your family during the upcoming winter holidays? Afraid of what they will say to you or how they will react to your gender or relationship nonconformity? Then this is the perfect workshop for you! Join me, Dr. Eli, for an evening of strategizing and advice for how to deal with challengingContinueContinue reading “Navigate Family Stress During Holidays”
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Breaking Free: Rejecting Purity Culture’s Impact
My newest blog on Psychology Today explores some of the reasons people leave purity culture behind, and some of the outcomes they experience when they reject Evangelical expectations. Shout out to Mx. Tessi Muskrat for their awesome research on this topic! https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/202507/rejecting-sexual-shame-from-purity-culture #Shame #gender #relationship #Religions #purityculture #personalgrowth #NewBeginnings #healing
Explore Diverse Relationships & Mental Health Courses
If you want to learn about diverse relationships and sexualities or empower your sense of gender or body image then consider taking some of the online courses from the Pincus Center. They teach everything from BDSM to fat empowerment and flirting skills.
New Psychology Today Blog with Tips for Polite Communication when Gender is Unclear
My newest post on Psychology Today explores some communication tips and food for thought when people can’t tell the gender of the folx in the social interaction. It has been promoted to an essential read! https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/202407/how-to-talk-to-people-when-you-dont-know-their-gender
Women’s Sexual Fluidity with Dr. Lisa Diamond on the Bonding Hour 8 pm Eastern Nov. 30
Image: Person who appears to be a white woman with spiky dark hair, eye glasses and a teal shirt on a square with words Bonding Hour with Dr. Lisa Diamond Please join us on Thursday November 30 at 8pm Eastern time for a free discussion with Dr. Lisa Diamond about her research on sexual fluidityContinueContinue reading “Women’s Sexual Fluidity with Dr. Lisa Diamond on the Bonding Hour 8 pm Eastern Nov. 30”
Review of Polyqueer: Gender, Race, and Polyamory
In Polyqueer: Gender, Race, and Polyamory, Dr. Mimi Schippers examines the racialized and gendered backdrop against which heterosexuality and monogamy play out in contemporary US culture. Focusing on multiplistic configurations of one woman with two men, Schippers provides a polyqueer reading of E.Lynn Harris’s Invisible Life and the film The Other Man. Going beyond theContinueContinue reading “Review of Polyqueer: Gender, Race, and Polyamory”
Religious Attitudes Towards Polyamory
Religious Attitudes Towards Polyamory In this new blogpost on my Psychology Today blog I discus religious attitudes towards polyamory, and end with poly’s attitudes towards religions.