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Heidi M. Levitt

@heidilevitt.bsky.social
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Professor, psychologist; Research on psychotherapy, LGBTQ+ issues, gender, healing from stigma experiences; CCGT, critical, qualitative, and mixed methodologies. To learn more: sites.google.com/site/drheidilevitt or www.lgbtqmentalhealth.com

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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 10h
Should researchers reflect on their commitments, assumptions, and positionality and describe this in their research reports? Some say no. Our article provides a methodological justification for how reflexivity strengthens the methodological integrity of both qualitative and quantitative research.
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Visiting my family in Canada and feeling deeply disturbed. There is no reason for this hostility and it will hurt both our countries to no gain.
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Sharon Horne 🏳️‍🌈 @sharonhorne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Chiming in from blue city Boston, bastion of brokenness.
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Images from Pride this weekend...
Pride floats!
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Looking forward to seeing you!
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
AI and qualitative research... our concerns and guidance at Qualitative Psychology...
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🥳🤩 Sharon G. Horne received the 2025 Denmark-Gunvald Award for Feminist Research and Service from the International Council of Psychologists. This award honors a psychologist who has a history of research and service that directly benefits the health, promotion, and well-being of women in the world.
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I remember the excitement of learning about CPAR and love that I will can use this amazing article to share it with my students! Fernández, J. S., & Fine, M. (2025). Methodological retrospective: Critical participatory action research. Qualitative Psychology, 12(3), 377–394. doi.org/10.1037/qup0...
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is one of four excellent articles intended for use in the classroom. The others in that special issue focus on decolonial, phenomenological, and critical participatory action research. They are student-friendly and historically embedded descriptions that make clear how to do each one well!
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I continue to be horrified that he acts with overt cruelty, impunity, and immaturity and that we struggle to stand up to him in the moment or to hold him accountable after. Where is the video of this moment? Why isn't it everywhere?
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
So well said...
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We publish so many phenomenal articles in Qualitative Psychology, but this is one that really touched my heart... It is scholarship-activism in action and I wanted to post it today when so many people have acted to reject anti-trans legislation. It affirms this caring.
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Finally some good news!
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THEE Gutsy Woman🐝 🪷 @gutsywoman19.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"Understanding the Attack on Science as an Discrediting of Minoritized Lived Experiences"... An editorial in Qualitative Psychology
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
No kings signs!
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
At the No Kings protest in Boston!
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Cancelling Disney+...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/09/2025
Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.
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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
substack.com/@hueyli/note...
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Why gerrymandering is impossible in some countries
Video script
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Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/07/2025
“If Americans don’t fight back … the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society.” Join the #SummerFightForScience to take action here ➡️zurl.co/zG9W5 zurl.co/F0Wyk
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Attacks on Higher Education Are Attacks on All Americans
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like. And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie
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Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/07/2025
1. Earlier this year, Trump erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage, digitally burning the history we helped create. Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people. No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument
The "History and Culture" page no longer includes bisexual rights.
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I am excited to share with you Qualitative Psychology 12(2), including a special issue on "Methodologies to advance anti-racist scholarship." Guest editors: Tiffany Williams & Roberto Abreu; a fantastic job, highlighting the need for anti-racist qualitative methods. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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U.S. Senator Jack Reed @reed.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for pointing out that we make money on our public lands every single year. Why would we sell them when they are a reliable form of income? www.blm.gov/sites/defaul...
Graphic showing breakdown of economic output and jobs supported by BLM-Managed lands. 
$252.1 Billion in economic output. 
949,000 Kobe supported.
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Sharon Horne 🏳️‍🌈 @sharonhorne.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Free access for Pride month! #LGBTQ #neurodiversity #autism www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
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“These Experiences also Relate to my Neurodiverse Identity”: An Intersectional Understanding of Heterosexist Events Among Autistic-LGBTQ+ Individuals | Autism in Adulthood
Background: Given the high likelihood of Autistic individuals also being sexual and gender minorities, it is important to understand how Autistic-LGBTQ+ people understand prejudice events in the conte...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge says the termination of NIH grants for research on diversity-related topics by President Trump's administration was “void and illegal,” and accused the government of discriminating against racial minorities and LGBT people.
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Judge deems Trump's cuts to National Institutes of Health illegal
U.S. District Judge William Young said the NIH violated federal law by arbitrarily canceling more than $1 billion in research grants because of their perceived connection to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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Heidi M. Levitt @heidilevitt.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
A million protest in No King but Yaass Queen in Boston! Some of our favorite signs...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The rule of law is under attack. Every day it withers.
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UAW @uaw.org · 09/06/2025
"More than 300 staffers signed a letter to the NIH director urging him to stop politically motivated cuts and delays to research grants." @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/m...
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‘Unrecognizable and highly toxic’: NIH staffers speak out ahead of Senate hearing on budget cuts - The Boston Globe
More than 300 staffers signed a letter to the NIH director urging him to stop politically motivated cuts to research grants.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Trump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration’s executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer...” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...
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Library Advocates Rally as Trump Targets Federal Funding
An executive order has demanded that the Institute for Museum and Library Services be eliminated to the maximum extent allowed by law.
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SQIP @qualpsy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"Relationality, contextual embeddedness, and the inextricable self of the researcher in ethnographic interviewing" by Talia Weiner at @uwestga.bsky.social - The value and applicability of ethnographic interview methods to psychological research psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
17 Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's anti-labor Labor Secretary. If we have a constitutional crisis (we do), they should start acting like it. www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Daines (R-MT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moody (R-FL)
Moran (R-KS)
Moreno (R-OH)
Mullin (R-OK)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Peters (D-MI)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
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SQIP @qualpsy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In #Qualitative Psychology, "Fostering Cultural Engagement Through Ethnographic Psychological Research: An Introduction to the Special Section" by Jonathan Yahalom and Elizabeth Fein This issue highlights how ethnography can advance psychological knowledge psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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SQIP @qualpsy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In Qualitative Psychology, "Attending to Investigator Reflexivity and Epistemic Privilege: A Worksheet for Facilitating Individual and Research Team Self-Reflection" by @heidilevitt.bsky.social A downloadable resource to stimulate researchers' reflexivity psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/03/2025
Trump’s 25% Tariffs On Canada, Mexico Take Effect theonion.com/trumps-...
“It won’t affect me, because my wife does all our grocery shopping.”

Dustin Schroat, Pronoun Expert
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/03/2025
We want to know—why are YOU standing up for science? Whether it's a commitment to evidence-based policy, a drive to protect our planet, or the personal impact of recent events on your career, we want to feature your story. Head to standupforscience2025.org/science-stor... to share yours ☀️
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Why I Stand Up for Science
Science shapes our world, drives innovation, and protects our future—but it needs voices like yours to defend and champion it. We want to hear your story. Why do you stand up for science?Is it beca…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
February 28, 2025
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Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.
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njrocksmo.bsky.social @njrocksmo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Desperately trying to get someone to notice this story from today’s Guardian.We have opened our doors to Russian hackers and US media not reporting it. I can hardly breathe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/02/2025
The US Trade advisor wants to throw Canada out of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing program, which shares information about the joint protection of North America and global security threats. www.rawstory.com/trump-canada...
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Trump adviser pushes unprecedented new punishment against Canada: report
Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro is reportedly pushing for an unprecedented maneuver that would upend decades' worth of American national security policy.The Financial Times reports that Navarro has ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Opinion: The American Press Corps Is Not Equipped For This Moment
We’ve never had to contend with a determined autocrat in this country, and it shows.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2025
1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin
After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.
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