Intimate Health Consulting

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

Come learn about the safest and s*xiest 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!

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?

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It's been a while since I've done an . I'm Bianca, the frenetic, sarcastic nurse and owner of Intimate Health Consulting.

I love making lists and it felt particularly helpful today to take stock of all the projects I am juggling right now. I have a terrible tendency to tell myself that I have it easy/am not doing enough because I work my clinical job only part time. But I have a lot of other amazing things I'm doing right now to try and make the world a little better, so let me share them with you.

In addition to starting in a new clinical nursing role next month (bye forensic nursing, it's been real!)...

1. I am a community partner lead on a 2 year patient centered outcomes research project with health.

2. I serve as a content expert curating research/videos/articles about s*xuality for Our Bodies, Ourselves (!!) online.

3. I teach webinars and in person classes on trauma informed care, s*xual health, and health equity through Intimate Health Consulting

4. I make silly but hopefully informative healthcare education videos here and on the clock app.

5. I volunteer with JUFJ's DC chapter doing housing justice advocacy and meeting with DC councilmembers about legislation

6. AND I teach trauma informed breast/chest and pelvic exams to healthcare students at two Baltimore universities.

Sometimes writing it all out does help remind me that I am doing a lot for the world. There are a lot of things going on that make it easy to feel hopeless and defeated, but we are each unraveling this twisted knot of oppression from our respective corners.

What are you working on that you're proud of?