research & visibility for stigmatized and hidden populations

the ABDL Research & Visibility Initiative is a groundbreaking project at the intersection of public mental health, radical queer Freudianism, community storytelling, and digital arts. our team works with one of the most stigmatized and voiceless sexual minorities: individuals who identify as Adult Baby/Diaper Lovers (ABDL). these individuals—many of whom are queer, neurodivergent, disabled, or survivors of early relational trauma—have been systematically erased from conversations about health, dignity, and desire. this project is about changing that.

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at its core, the initiative is built on both clinical insight and scholarly rigor. we’ve completed a multi-language scoping review of over 1,000 international articles to map the dominant narratives of pathology, silence, and misrepresentation around ABDL identities in psychology, medicine, and law. this work situates all of our efforts by informing the strategy and execution of our clinical and community-based social work and public health interventions based on the available scholarship on the subjects of healting the wounds of early and frustrated attachment bonds, and how adult sexual preferences, identities, and behavior are leveraged to heal to achieve psychological and emotional wellness through resilience and flourishing.

 

in partnership with community collaborators and university-based researchers, we are now designing a mixed-methods concept mapping study that centers the lived experience of ABDL individuals, asking them to define their own health, developmental pathways, and sources of meaning and identity. we also have a top secret project known for now as "Atomic Ageless Dreaming". more details to be announced in future updates to this webpage. all of this work is trauma-informed, community-led, and rooted in the ethics and values of social work, public health, and social justice.

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beyond research, this initiative thrives in the public square. through bold social media engagement, podcasting, queer-theory and lived experience informed ethnographic and storytelling, as well as online community building through performance art and visual culture, we’re reaching thousands of people who have lived in hiding for too long.

 

Daddy Dialogues, the first and only video podcast on the subject of love, pair-bonding, intersectionality, and eroticism, opens up conversations about caregiving, kink, gender nonconformity, and love, while our Facebook and digital presence provide connection, mentorship, and soul-level affirmation for those who’ve never seen themselves reflected without shame. This work is unapologetically queer, deeply spiritual, and always anchored in the belief that embodiment and eroticism are not a luxury—they are fundamentally a public health issue.

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we approach this work with the seriousness it deserves. we are already collecting financial support through individual donations, private philanthropy, event partnerships, and community giving. none of these dollars support personnel costs, only programmatic initiatives. these resources directly sustain our research, internship training, podcast production, and outreach to those most in need of connection, healing, and representation.

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in a time when bodily autonomy, gender, and sexual expression are under political attack, we are creating a sanctuary for visibility, data, and love. this is social work and public health in practice—not through gatekeeping or pathology, but through dignity, creativity, and collective healing.