Intimate Health Consulting

03/06/2026

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

10/04/2025

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!

12/30/2024

Despite 2024 being a political cl*******ck, 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, , 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 and Jeremy and danced in a field together
-My cutie pie niece Lily turned 3 and we visited Idlewild Park for her birthday
-Met 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.

07/08/2024

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?

05/22/2024

Under the current proposal, only 43 residents will get Permanent Supportive Housing vouchers. According to and , we need 1260 PSH vouchers to be on the path to end homelessness. The time for to act is NOW. Tell them you want to see DC’s wealthiest residents pay their fair share to fund this key tool in the fight to end homelessness: https://jufj.org/dc-fy25-action/

05/02/2024

My mentor created this incredible book, which compliments their website healthybinding.com and you absolutely need to read it if you, your loved ones, or your patients bind. If you can't afford a copy, let me know and I'll sponsor one for you!

04/24/2024

So proud of my friend Frances Reed who released their first book today “Healthy Chest Binding for Trans and Non-Binary People: A Practical Guide” 💗 Books like these, by and for the transmasc community need to be amplified!

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More about the book:

My long-time mentor Frances Reed released their first book this month!!! It's an amazing resource on binding for transmasc people and I was grateful to get to review it and provide a few thoughts on how some of the massage techniques could apply differently to hypermobile bodies. It's absolutely worth picking up a copy: www.healthybinding.com/the-book

More about the book:

Written by Frances Reed, a licensed bodywork and massage therapist specializing in gender transition, this comprehensive guide helps you make the healthiest choices from the very start of your binding journey. Including guidance for choosing the right binder, approaching your first bind, an overview of potential health risks and complications, a range of self-massage and self-fascial release exercises to minimize pain and dysphoria, as well as tips and tricks for exercising safely in a binder - this is the ultimate resource for anyone that practices chest binding.

The Book Healthy Chest Binding for Trans & Non-Binary People: A Practical Guideby Frances Reed, LMT 7 Healthy Chest Binding for Trans and Non-Binary People: A Practical Guide Binding is a crucial strategy in many transgender and non-binary people’s lives for coping with gender dysphoria, yet the v...

02/17/2024

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?

02/16/2024

Calling all Wikipedia Nerds: Our Bodies Ourselves is hosting a Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon for wikipedia articles on March 6th. You should come!

Wiki Dashboard

01/13/2024

Feeling deeply moved by this.

Plain text version of the photo:

medical history (a poem)
By Nicole Sealey

I’ve been pregnant. I’ve had s*x with a man
who’s had s*x with men. I can’t sleep.
My mother has, my mother’s mother had,
asthma. My father had a stroke. My father’s
mother has high blood pressure.
Both grandfathers died from diabetes.
I drink. I don’t smoke. Xanax for flying.
Propranolol for anxiety. My eyes are bad.
I’m spooked by the wind. Cousin Lily died
from an aneurysm. Aunt Hilda, a heart attack.
Uncle Ken, wise as he was, was hit
by a car as if to disprove whatever theory
toward which I write. And, I understand,
the stars in the sky are already dead.