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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈

@aliciamwalker1.bsky.social

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Sociology prof & author: Sexuality, relationships/behavior/identity gender; qual; Co-Chair CCF; editor CCF blog; Psych Today blogger🩷💜💙 #Resist #AcademicSky #Dateline #Sociology #sexresearch

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's here!!! 🙂
Bound by BDSM is out now.
What can YOU learn from kinksters to be happier? ✨@ATKuperberg & I are thrilled to share!
It's smart.
It's spicy.
It just might change your life.

👇 Find out how:
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Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life

Amazon.com: Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life: 9798881803025: Walker, Alicia M.: Books

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 1h

Theo thinks he’s the main character, but we’re still waiting on the plot. 🎭
Our new Challenge podcast episode’s out, and we have thoughts.
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#TheChallenge41 #thechallenge

Season 41, Episode 11 - Theo’s Giving Main Character, But the Script Is Blank | The Challenge Recap

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 22h

new GTaC! @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social stopped by to discuss their new book Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons in Building a Happier Life:
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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 1d

🔗https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidden-desires/202510/the-science-of-the-one-who-got-away

Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 1d

Why does the one keep haunting our thoughts long after they’re gone?
🧠 In my latest Hidden Desires column for Psychology Today, I dig into the science of “the one who got away” and how memory and regret keep us stuck.

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 2d

He is a soulmate, that's for certain.

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 2d

Today has mostly mightily stunk, y'all.

(Among the stinky items is more than $3k in unexpected costs AND less than amazing news re: Harvey the dog's health.)

Sigh.

Share some happy things with me, Friends. I need a vicarious pick-me-up.

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 4d

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 4d

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 4d

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 4d

From your lips to the ears of the gods!

Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 4d

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 4d

🌀EP DROPPED
Trivia tried to kill them.
Stair-steppers betrayed them.
Nany & Aneesa 💣 exploded.
It’s chaos on The Challenge & we’re breaking it all down.

🎧 New ep of This Ends Your Time on The Challenge Podcast is live!
👉find it where you get your podcasts
#TheChallenge41

Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 4d

Safe word: “Listen.” 😉
@ariellekuperberg.bsky.social & I stopped by New Books in Sociology to talk Bound by BDSM and why kinksters might have cracked the code on happiness, communication, and connection w/ @professorjohnst.bsky.social
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Alicia M. Walker and Arielle Kuperberg, "Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 5d

2/ Huge thanks to @drcompton.bsky.social @alansmartino.bsky.social
@sadiesfavourite.bsky.social @erinburnett.bsky.social @lisawade.bsky.social for their feedback. 🤞

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 5d

1/ After years & multiple rejections (& an existential crisis), finally got an R&R (revise & resubmit!) on this article. 🎉 Even better: the reviewer comments didn’t make me want to cry. 😅

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 10d

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 10d

Today is National Black Dog Day! Black dogs & cats are the last to be adopted, waiting 4xs longer to get adopted.
We found Harvey abandoned at a gas station when he was 5 mos old. He is the smartest, sweetest, funniest dog I've ever known.
Consider adopting a black dog today.

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · 10d

‼️ Today on the @thesocietypages.bsky.social blog ‼️

The Silent Signals of Great Sex: What We’re Not Saying in the Bedroom

Research by @ccfamilies.bsky.social Co-Chair @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and Audrey Lutmer explores nonverbal sexual communication and its impact on intimacy.

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 12d

Going live at 1230 EST on SIRIUSXM today on the Sexual Health Show ! 🎙 🎙 We’ll be diving into my new book, Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons in Building a Happier Life. Tune in for what kink can teach all of us about trust, connection + joy.

Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 15d

Want to hear our full conversation on kink and happiness?
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Bound by BDSM: Life Lessons from the Dungeon - Episode 238

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 15d

@ArielleKuperberg.bsky.social & I had a blast talking kink + happiness on @PinkKinkPodcast.bsky.social ! 💜
To celebrate, we're giving 4 signed custom bookplates to the first buyers who DM proof this week. When they’re gone, they’re gone!

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Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social · 17d

I spoke about adolescent peer cultures, gender norms, and technological harm with the Council on Contemporary Families for @thesocietypages.bsky.social. Thanks @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social for the invite! #AcademicSky #Sociology

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3Q with Anna Gjika When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 21d

On this week's #Challenge41 recap podcast ep: we explain how CT just sparked an all-out war 🔥, groupthink vs strategy, Olivia’s partner-shopping delusions, Derek tossed like yesterday’s leftovers.
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Season 41, Episode 8 - CT vs. Everyone! | The Challenge Recap

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 20d

Happy 21st day of September to all who celebrate!

Full disclosure: I start playing this song every day on Sept 1. 😄

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 21d

Season 41, Episode 8 - CT vs. Everyone! | The Challenge Recap

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