From your lips to the ears of the gods!

🌀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

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
newbooksnetwork.com/bound-by-bdsm

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

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. 😅

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.

‼️ 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.

🔗 bit.ly/46tvozu

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.

Want to hear our full conversation on kink and happiness?
open.spotify.com/episode/21kW...

@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!

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

thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

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.
👉 open.spotify.com/episode/32M0...

Happy 21st day of September to all who celebrate!

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

youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

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.
👉 open.spotify.com/episode/32M0...

It's so nice when it all comes together!!!
Definitely hope that happens to me soon.
I'm still in the phase of, "Wait, IS this a chapter?" & "Wait, DOES this go in this chapter? Does this even go in this book?" 🤣😆😄

Oh, it's not a motivational issue at all. (The issue isn't that I'm not writing. I'm writing.)
I'm just still at the phase of the book where it hasn't really clicked yet. You know?
I haven't yet hit that point where you start to feel that it's all coming together and gelling and... well, good.

Enjoy!

Great work! I'd love it if you wrote about it for the Council on Contemporary Families blog hosted by The Society Pages. DM or email me if you're at all interested

My SOCY honors thesis student is looking for participants to complete a survey about being queer, trans, and disabled, and intimate partner relationships. Please share this information with your networks!
Here is a link to the Qualtrics survey: qualtricsxm8bzyd3flc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...