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Erica Smith

@ericasmithsexed.bsky.social
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Sex education after high control religion. Creator of Purity Culture Dropout.™ Repro Justice. Old punk queer femme. Philly. 🥨 @ericasmith.educates on Instagram purityculturedropout.com to work together

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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
If you need financial assistance/ an extended payment plan in order to access this group, please email me and I'm happy to work something out! I only have spots left for tomorrow at 9pm ET. Last chance until 2026! www.ericasmitheac.com/pcd-divorce-...
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“It was one of the best decisions I ever made. 100% recommend for anyone who came out of purity culture and is considering divorce, going through divorce, or post divorce. It was so, so good. And I still chat with the amazing humans in my group regularly. I would've never found that level of...
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Hello my friends who grew up in high control religion! I'm enrolling my Purity Culture Dropout™ Divorce Support Groups right now. Were you married when you were a devout Christian and have ended/ are ending/ will maybe end your marriage? Let us support you thru that unique and isolating experience.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Last chance to register for my class for LGBTQ+ people recovering from high control religion- tonight at 7pm ET! I'm a sex educator not a theologian! We're gonna talk about all the affirmation & advice you need. You'll receive the recording if you can't attend live. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Embracing Your Queerness After High Control Religion . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This isn't a seminar about spirituality or how you should interpret any religion's teachings about gender and sexuality. Think of this as a seminar that's a love letter to queer and questioning people...
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
In addition to being a sex educator, I'm a huge Eagles fan, so I was THRILLED to hear my name shouted out on @newheightsofficial.bsky.social because of a comment I made about the legendary Jason Kelce pinup tattoo. Travis Kelce said I'm an educator but if they only knew I'm a SEX educator lol.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My work is featured in the Guardian :)
theguardian.com
These evangelical men saved sex for marriage – they weren’t well prepared
Scores of Christian men have been raised on ideas of abstinence and ‘purity’ – what does that mean for their sex lives later on?
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Queer people raised in purity culture!! Queer people with religious upbringings!! Register for my special class this Sunday that’s specifically designed to help you feel more confident, validated, loved, and welcomed in queer community. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Embracing Your Queerness After High Control Religion . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This isn't a seminar about spirituality or how you should interpret any religion's teachings about gender and sexuality. Think of this as a seminar that's a love letter to queer and questioning people...
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/06/2025
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Help me find the queer people who were raised in purity culture and high control religion! Want to embrace your queer identity a bit more this Pride Month but don't know where to begin? I’m hosting a seminar on 6/23 just for you.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Black trans women threw bricks to stop this from happening and here it is again. A Pittsburgh gay bar raided, and the cops TOOK SELFIES with Amanda Lepore. qburgh.com/p-town-raide...
qburgh.com
P Town Bar ‘Raided’ During Queer Event Featuring Amanda Lepore
What was supposed to be a joyful night of queer celebration turned into a moment of surreal disruption on Friday when P Town Bar, a beloved LGBTQ establishment in Pittsburgh, was raided by approxim…
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Simply being gay/lesbian/queer and having a platform doesn't make you an expert that other people should pay to guide them through their emerging queerness.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Nazis exposed in New Orleans today. Reminder that if you hang out with Nazis you are ok with Nazis therefore you are also Nazis. www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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Nazi’s FAFO night out in New Orleans ends in losing his job
A night out on the town for one Louisiana Nazi and his collaborator friends has ended in unemployment after video was posted online of the poorly tattooed fascist and his melanin-challenged waffenbrud...
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
“[DOGE staffers] went into the system and they killed off people,” Glasgow told The Daily Beast. “About 4 million people, they marked them as dead. But they’re not sure if those people were supposed to be marked as dead, so they’re sending us an email saying, ‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.’”
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A FEDERAL PROGRAM TO TEACH WOMEN WHEN THEY’RE OVULATING IS SEX EDUCATION
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The government now wants to sponsor classes to teach about the menstrual cycle? 😂 Baby that’s literally just the comprehensive sex education y’all have been dismantling.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Guys I can’t stand the Phils nickname “The Fightins.” I can’t explain why other than it just makes me cringe. It’s weird to pronounce. This is a 420 tweet but I stand by it.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/04/2025
it's all grift all the way down, "government efficiency" as a way to rip you off over and over again in every aspect of your life there's nothing they won't make worse
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Zoom is down and we are all free
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Where are the other queer women who have disliked Katy Perry ever since I Kissed A Girl? That song felt like a crime against dykes anytime it came on at the bar.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Criminalizing homelessness has become immensely profitable. "It's an entire business model. By steering public money away from permanent housing solutions and into jails, detention facilities, and surveillance tech, the Cicero Institute's backers protect their wealth and expand their influence."
invisiblepeople.tv
Cicero Institute: The Shadow Lobby Fueling Mass Incarceration Of Homeless People
The Cicero Institute is quietly driving a nationwide campaign to criminalize homelessness through copy-paste legislation that benefits private prisons.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
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Scarey!! (they/them)🍉🦇 @scareymulligan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“…any narrative involving minors could be challenged; especially political or activist content. And if you don’t think that’s exactly how this law will end up being used, I beg you to look around.” Laws like this RELY on people taking the headline at face value and shocker: doing so is dangerous!!
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Well I just cried at episode one of Dying for Sex on Hulu. Is it all gonna be this way?! 😩🥹
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I was chatting recently with some college students and they told me it's not uncommon for male sexual partners to offer to buy them Plan B in lieu of using a condom. Like, "I don't want to use a condom, I'll get you the Plan B." I have thoughts and the first one is- this is manipulative AF. 🧵
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Subscribe if you're curious about / invested in shame free sex ed specifically tailored to the needs of people coming out of high control religions & purity culture & also cultural commentary on sexual politics in the US. creative-experimenter-5339.kit.com/profile
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Erica Smith, Sexuality Education and Consulting
Subscribe if you're curious about / invested in shame free sexuality education that's specifically tailored to the needs of people coming out of high control religions and purity culture. Expect infor...
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
MAHA wants to “go back”, to “RETVRN” in fascist parlance. Fascist and far-right movements are steeped in nostalgia for things that never happened, happy eras of freedom and glory that never existed; MAHA is no exception
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RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill.
Public health, modern medicine and disease mitigation will suffer under RFK Jr. because he sees sick people- not sickness- as the problem.
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Somewhere, somehow a youth pastor is writing an Easter sermon about the Rizzurection.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
When *any* example of *perfectly normal and healthy sexual urges and activity* is framed as dangerous addiction, then the people who - through no fault of their own - inspire in you those same *perfectly normal and healthy* urges are in fact attacking you, threatening your immortal soul.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The British press all in on the devil's magic of pornography. Porn "algorithms" are not alchemy, nor do they transform your brain. They do not turn you into a rapist, a child abuser or a homosexual. But when you get caught, you can certainly blame them!
'I didn't start out wanting to see kids': are porn algorithms feeding a generation of pedophiles - or creating one?

More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are rising every year. How did this happen?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: 
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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Justin Carter @juscarts.com · 08/04/2025
Getting Ted Cruz out of office should unite all Texas sports fans across the entire political spectrum.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/04/2025
Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
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Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
NEW YORK—Stressing that the memory seemed so fresh and vivid in their minds, the confused nation announced Monday that they could have sworn British entertainer Russell Brand was already a convicted s...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/04/2025
1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media. 2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media. 3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media. 4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you missed me, @jillian.bsky.social & @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social in conversation for this @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social panel on s*xual content moderation & #socialmedia censorship, you can catch the recording here: youtu.be/Q7Ax9C7x_gk?...
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The Byte Barrier: How Algorithms Are Silencing Our Sexual Voices
YouTube video by Woodhull Freedom Foundation
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JR @not-a-girl.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It's time for #FThon25 &I'm raising funds for the only #IndieClinic in Iowa, Emma Goldman Clinic. We are STILL providing abortions in #Iowa within the confines of the laws & will do so as long as we can..with your help! #EGCFundAThon fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6... @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social
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Emma Goldman Clinic Fund-a-Thon 2025
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Yesterday on a flight from Miami to Philly, a handsome older guy pointed at my hat and says "Phillies? My son plays for them. Nick Castellanos." FAM, I fist bumped Casty's dad!!!! He was on his way to see him play and obviously so proud!
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I love sports.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Boosting for some ongoing support. Thank you.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"we're reaching out to you because we absolutely love your Instagram content" - someone who has never looked at my instagram content even once
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It was getting a Sassy magazine subscription in 1992 that did it for me.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I just saw that some men are SHAVING THEIR EYELASHES DOWN because they think long lashes are too feminine. Fellas, is it gay to protect your sensitive eyeballs from debris?
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
As a Kardashian hater, today is a great day.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I just decided that I need to eat French fries tomorrow.
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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I’m struck by how close we’re getting to finally curing some of the world’s worst diseases—sickle cell, Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, etc.—at the same time that the world’s worst people are destroying medical research and care around the world.
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Erica Smith @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It seems insane that we still have to remind people that there are good people in all of the places where the elected officials are awful.
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