<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Brick House]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Brick House is a primary hub for Brown Skeleton Consulting, Limeade Magazine, and psychology research from SJ Adams.]]></description><link>https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 04:27:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[the grumblings of a disgruntled TA]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am a teaching assistant (TA) as part of my graduate program. Specifically, I am the assistant for Human Sexuality — think, Sex Ed but more comprehensive. I have about 180-200 students, and this is consistent across every semester I’ve done this. There is always a week in this course that we talk about sexuality and gender identity. A few weeks ago was that  week — the students watched videos on transgender identity and had to write one page reflections about the content. If you aren’t up to...]]></description><link>https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/post/the-grumblings-of-a-disgruntled-ta</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6956ffc33049016ee54338fd</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:15:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>sawyerjadams</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[showing up and showing out]]></title><description><![CDATA[See the full glory of this post, including pictures and videos, on Substack. Hi everyone, Sawyer here! I am a 3rd year Community Psychology doctoral student in The EMPOWER Lab at Georgia State University. I am currently Head of Operations  within the lab, meaning I run and manage our social media and marketing teams. I’m also a Research Dissemination and Design Consultant , and Owner of Limeade Magazine  (check us out), so talking about research and using fun formats like blogs are my...]]></description><link>https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/post/showing-up-and-showing-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6956fe7eac028de75570e2e8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:12:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>sawyerjadams</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[mental health in QT-BIPOC youth]]></title><description><![CDATA[View this post on Substack for photos and linked videos. Huzzah! I’ve defended my Master’s Thesis and can finally begin the slow and sorrowful trudge toward my PhD. Only jokes… It will be rageful, not sorrowful. It is a fantastic and positive step in the right direction to become an academic nuisance against all those little hateful pro-white and anti-LGBTQ+ shits who think they can run this fu—[incoherent angry mumbling]— Anyway, I’m still finalizing my thesis and going through revisions...]]></description><link>https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/post/mental-health-in-qt-bipoc-youth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">688ce4e2262129e8fc672a66</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:56:56 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>sawyerjadams</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[living with(out) my goals]]></title><description><![CDATA[In July, I created a goal of reading five books in one month. For avid readers, that’s chump change. For a former avid reader, that was a mountain from a molehill. As a child, I was reading books as if they were the best part of a diet. Voraciously consuming fantasy worlds like my life depended on it (and it sort of did). I was the 6th grade kid with the lexile score of a college student. But when it came time to focus on all 300 AP classes I was taking at the same time in high school, I...]]></description><link>https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/post/living-with-out-my-goals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ff9584321cd82330077e4a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:54:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>sawyerjadams</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[creation is an equation... and i'm bad at math]]></title><description><![CDATA[i am a fantasy author—or at least, trying to be. fantasy is a huge passion of mine, and i find escapism to be incredibly important. i...]]></description><link>https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/post/creation-is-an-equation-and-i-m-bad-at-math</link><guid isPermaLink="false">688ce5a1262129e8fc672c36</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:06:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>sawyerjadams</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[wrap up!]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week’s post is brought to you by my vested interest in public health and also in making information available despite president...]]></description><link>https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/post/wrap-up</link><guid isPermaLink="false">688ce40386dcf340cfef24e2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:01:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>sawyerjadams</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[finding hope in the flames]]></title><description><![CDATA[If there’s one thing we all know, especially in this day and age, is that most of what we thought as kids about the future turned out to be largely false. There are no flying cars, politics isn’t about making the world a better place, and mermaids are not real (a real tragedy, that one). I hate to be a Debby Downer, but as I look at the flames engulfing society as we know it, I realize that the magical beliefs in the good of the world—the ones that blossomed as a child escaping into...]]></description><link>https://sawyerjadams.wixsite.com/the-brickhouse/post/finding-hope-in-the-flames</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68374cdf82d9fb86faaf74b5</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 17:54:37 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>sawyerjadams</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>