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Anthony Velasco

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Director of Gender Health & Wellness Services • Nurse Practitioner • PhD @cuanschutz.bsky.social • J&J Health Equity Scholar • Stigma & Trans Health Researcher • he/they/siya • Views are my own 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ • https://linktr.ee/anthonythenp • #NurseSky

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I tried using a vacuum sealer. Did not work 😂😬

26.03.2025 13:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do you fit 5 years worth of work in a 10-minute podium presentation? 😅

26.03.2025 02:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No words. So sorry to read this, Jace 💔

26.03.2025 01:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, friend! 🥰

17.03.2025 03:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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38 🥰

17.03.2025 02:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We have each other. We are the Resistance now. All of us.

14.03.2025 18:20 👍 40589 🔁 6035 💬 703 📌 259
Judge Berman Jackson acknowledges Michael Fanone's heroism.

Judge Berman Jackson acknowledges Michael Fanone's heroism.

Filed in District Court today. Judge Berman Jackson making sure the record will always be reflective of what really happened that day.

07.02.2025 01:38 👍 10597 🔁 2459 💬 237 📌 88

Let us not be defined by history as a generation complicit to the injustice of the most vulnerable. Instead, let our generation be known as a generation defined by our act of resistance, subversion, and survival.

06.02.2025 14:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Attorney General Neronha and 14 attorneys general issue joint statement on protecting access to gender-affirming care | Rhode Island Attorney General's Office

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care.

Big counter salvo!

05.02.2025 18:38 👍 17063 🔁 4360 💬 236 📌 347
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Contact your legislators with a simple message - PEPFAR is a humanitarian effort & supports global stability, and must be fully funded & supported. Let them know you are a nurse or healthcare provider & a constituent. #NurseSky

Here is the link to identify your representative: www.congress.gov

05.02.2025 03:16 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

02.02.2025 17:33 👍 46729 🔁 19494 💬 1247 📌 1831

In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.

But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.

Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.

Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

31.01.2025 22:17 👍 20134 🔁 2607 💬 329 📌 62

We’re in a hellscape.

01.02.2025 05:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

29.01.2025 23:39 👍 18638 🔁 4865 💬 315 📌 146

Good morning co-conspirators! What kind of good trouble are we doing today?

24.01.2025 13:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How it started and how it's going. This is why I think it's all a political stunt and setting president for further abuses of power. Jack puts it much more eloquently below.

19.01.2025 16:26 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Horoscope: The best business to enter this new year is none of your.

01.01.2025 18:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s not forget that of all the nurses that died from COVID, 21% were Filipino, even though Filipinos only represent 4% of all US nurses. #NurseSky

31.12.2024 18:39 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Going after progress over perfection this new year. Taking the time to savor every victory, no matter how small! ❤️

29.12.2024 17:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here’s a little reminder: Surround yourself with people that makes you feel good about yourself. ❤️

28.12.2024 14:58 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don’t feel obligated to visit toxic family members during the holidays.🥰

24.12.2024 13:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It wasn’t love at first sight (or so they say), but it was the understanding, respect, and love they have for each other that made their 49 years of marriage successful. Happy 49th wedding anniversary to my mom and dad! ❤️

20.12.2024 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The biggest! 😂

15.12.2024 17:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Facebook reminded me that 4 years ago today, I was told that I should “stop stirring the pot” for questioning the structural racism, sexism, and transmisogyny that exist in society. So now, imma need all your help to decide which one I should use today? ☺️

15.12.2024 16:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The medicalization of trans identity presents transgender and gender-diverse people as a population that “needs” an “intervention”, rather than the cisheteronormative system that sustains stigma, oppression, and disparities of care. #MedSky #NurseSky

03.12.2024 14:30 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Let’s work towards a future where everyone has access to the care & support they need to thrive. Let us ensure that HIV is no longer a barrier to equality, but a challenge that we confront together—through compassion, advocacy, and the tireless pursuit of justice for all. #NurseSky #MedSky

01.12.2024 21:17 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wicked isn't just a musical—it's a political commentary. At its core, it explores the silencing of those who don’t conform and how the majority often stays complicit in maintaining oppressive systems. A powerful reminder that fighting for justice is not just for a few, but a fight for all.

30.11.2024 15:45 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I told my friend I don’t even know the point of doing research anymore with our incoming administration. She tells me research is more important than ever right now.

How can I think like my friend and get that motivation…

30.11.2024 02:45 👍 1116 🔁 40 💬 139 📌 11
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Who else thinks that ham is much better than turkey?

29.11.2024 21:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My fabulous fashion sense started at a very young age 😂

28.11.2024 20:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0