In this episode, host Bryan Stanton (they/them) talks with Katherine Bogen (she/her), a sixth-year doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Nebraska. Katherine’s work focuses on bisexual identity, experiences of violence, and how disclosure impacts relationships and healing. She shares what it means to conduct “me-search” that honors queer lived experience—and what it felt like when federal DEI funding cuts abruptly canceled her NIH-funded research grant.

The conversation explores bisexual stigma, institutional cowardice around anti-DEI policies, and why queer educators and researchers must continue documenting their communities—even when systems attempt to erase the data.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why bisexual people face some of the highest rates of violence across sexuality groups
• What happens when queer research funding disappears—and how scholars keep going
• How educators can strategically continue queer-focused research in hostile policy climates
• Why fiction, storytelling, and scholarship all play a role in protecting queer communities
• How lived experience can be a legitimate form of expertise in education

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