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Bianca Palmisano, MSN, RN, SANE-A. Owner, Intimate Health Consulting. Sex ed for healthcare professionals, LGBT news, & intersectional activism

Rolling into summer with a few snapshots of Trans

Rolling into summer with a few snapshots of Trans Pride. I'm overjoyed that I get to share this space and time with my loves @tamjguy and @squiddished and my dearest friend Jordan. We danced, we collaged, we ate boxed lunches and talked loudly about kink with random new friends in the library. I had the immense pleasure of teaching my "Get Your Flirt On" class for the first time in many years. All of it was amazing. So grateful to be part of this community, to call DC my home, to call the trans community my community, and to call these beautiful people MINE. ❤️

Now is not the time to shy away from bold, innovat

Now is not the time to shy away from bold, innovative tax policy to address a shrinking budget due to Congressional interference. With significant cuts looming to this year’s budget and a potential delay in tax collections, we must explore options that the Mayor and Council have been unwilling to try, including revenue raisers and raising taxes for DC’s wealthiest, so that we can restore progressive tax policies like the Child Tax Credit.

Mayor Bowser/Chairman Mendelson: Support FBC's Fair Taxes & Public Deals recommendations to ensure DC has an equitable and fair approach to taxes that serves to reverse racial inequities.

View the recommendation and full FY27 Platform here: bit.ly/WeGotUsDC #WeGotUsDC #DCBudget

There's no cost to join me for this workshop at @p

There's no cost to join me for this workshop at @pleasurecheststores LA next week!

Come learn about the safest and sexiest ways to engage in breath play, and get nerdy with me about the physiology of the respiratory and circulatory systems!

Want to bring this class to your org? DM me!

My West Coast trip was everything I needed and mor

My West Coast trip was everything I needed and more. From hiking with @bexterhood at The Bulb in Berkeley to attending @dykedayla with @tamjguy, this visit was beautiful, nourishing, and so joyful. I can't believe how lucky I am to be surrounded by all this love. And I got to try an ice cream bean!!

Also featured: my flower creation from Craft Night at Akbar hosted by the amazing @jparr , the ridiculous art of the Neon Museum, and kissing in the cutest homemade flower crowns at Trans Pride LA.

Despite 2024 being a political clusterfuck, it was

Despite 2024 being a political clusterfuck, it was full of absolutely beautiful moments for me personally. Here's a few:

- Reunited with Rebecca for good food, nursing school gossip, disability solidarity, and so much more
- Taught myself to sand and refinish our Toyota Corolla that was starting to rust (it looks Ok...)
- Met this stunning human, @squiddished, who has accompanied me on endless adventures like broadway sing a longs and circus adaptations of Hamlet, and generally made my life infinitely brighter
-Beth and I took our annual Indigenous Peoples Day getaway to a lakeside in Virginia for apple picking and campfire cuddling (can you believe it's been 15 years together?)
-Tried cheeseburger soup (questionable but interesting) made by friends Gwen and Jen
-Celebrated the beautiful wedding of @killeeerbeee and Jeremy and danced in a field together
-My cutie pie niece Lily turned 3 and we visited Idlewild Park for her birthday
-Met @tamjguy and turned a casual hookup into a whirlwind romance. We collected 2 cross country visits (one for each of us) and have more planned for 2025.

A few highlights from summer: Meredith visits DC

A few highlights from summer:

Meredith visits DC and I show her the Q St Barbie pond! (and several art museums)
@eugeniafluo gets married and we take lots of silly photos
I'm fired from CARE Bethesda in response to escalating a safety issue (new job coming Aug 26)
Travel to Chicago to teach pelvic exams for the VA, plus getting deep dish pizza with my colleague Momo and visiting the Leather Archives where I saw this fantastic personal ad
Wild ponies at Assateague Island with my beautiful wife
Raging at Kraken Rage Room with @killeeerbeee
A magical week in LA falling deeply in love with @tamjguy
Fitting for a new-to-me suit (thank you Gwen for gifting me this!)
Birthday week starting off right with Halo Halo from Manila Mart and a luxurious Sunday baking this passion fruit tart with all my friends and dear ones

May your days be as joyful and full of love as mine have been. ❤️

The latest research on hormone replacement therapy

The latest research on hormone replacement therapy for people in perimenopause and menopause is truly LIFE CHANGING. Significant protection against multiple types of cancer demonstrated, as well as major quality of life improvements. This is definitely one of the most interesting studies I've read in a long time. #nursesofinstagram #healthcare

I have been asking a lot of people lately if they

I have been asking a lot of people lately if they identify as disabled. People who clearly recognize the ways in which normative society is not built for them, in which they have created coping mechanism or found community that better embraces their needs.

Most of them say they are not disabled.

For a lot of people this comes down to not utilizing accommodations. People seem to believe they are not disabled and cannot be part of this community if they don't seek access services or accommodations. For this I have a lot of thoughts:

1. Accomodations are a limited tool which do not encompass or respond to all of the needs we have as disabled people. If you've ever thought, "I would do so much better on tests if someone stopped me before turning them in and said, 'did you double check your answers?' If you've ever wished you had a job where the working hours were 7p-2a when you're at your sharpest? Those are accomodations. Just not ones society is able to give us in its current structure.

2. Just because you get by in the system as it's built today, doesn't mean you couldn't benefit from accommodations.

3. You do not need a traditional accommodation to be disabled. Disability reflects a significant impairment in a person's ability to carry out a task(s) of daily living. If your depression sometimes makes it hard to convince yourself to brush your teeth, that's affecting a task of daily living. If you're ADHD means that your food rots in the fridge because you forget that it's there, that's affecting a task of daily living. You may not be planning on doing anything about these impairments. You may not find them to be a "big deal." You still experience disability.

I think some people consider identifying as disabled when they are not "struggling" as a kind of stolen valor. Like they're taking up space in a community where they don't belong. I'd like to reframe this conversation into one where disabled identity brings you into coalition for political goals, rather than competition for scarce resources.

Does this change anything about how you see yourself?

A brief primer on how IUD insertions work. In my e

A brief primer on how IUD insertions work. In my experience, most patients do not know what this process looks like and are not adequately prepared for the experience. What was getting an IUD like for you?

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