Marissa Velarde, PhD MPH
@marissavelarde.bsky.social
Repro health & justice researcher & activist in the Deep South. Nueva Yol 4eva. Latina mami.
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Y'all I hate using Canva for slides. Why is it so popular? What am I missing?
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Y'all I hate using Canva for slides. Why is it so popular? What am I missing?
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I understand the reasoning behind zeroing in on ICE & DHS abducting citizens. But when you lead with what's perceived as your most sympathetic cases, you cede the moral high ground & make arguing for others harder. It is wrong for armed, masked gestapo to grab people - doesn't matter their status.
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I understand the reasoning behind zeroing in on ICE & DHS abducting citizens. But when you lead with what's perceived as your most sympathetic cases, you cede the moral high ground & make arguing for others harder. It is wrong for armed, masked gestapo to grab people - doesn't matter their status.
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Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans.
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans.
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
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If you had strong feelings about Qatar hosting the World Cup, now’s your time to shine when it comes to critiquing FIFA and Infantino’s latest coddling of authoritarianism.
I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Fifa agrees World Cup matches can be moved at Trump’s request
The president has been warning host cities under Democratic control that he will call on Fifa’s president to switch venues if he deems there is a problem
www.thetimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you had strong feelings about Qatar hosting the World Cup, now’s your time to shine when it comes to critiquing FIFA and Infantino’s latest coddling of authoritarianism.
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I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I think voters at large will very likely have trouble remembering details of chuck schumer selling out the aca by nov 2026. also I think in the next three months you're gonna see a lot of unlikely folks stopping by the dsa table at various no kings events
Read Mamdani's full victory speech (and grab a tissue): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Read Mamdani's full victory speech (and grab a tissue): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
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Big moment for me, my first-ever publication credit!
The Digital Defense Fund team contributed to this paper on practical data privacy practices for research with abortion seekers, including those facing the most serious threats. Just out in Contraception:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Digital Defense Fund team contributed to this paper on practical data privacy practices for research with abortion seekers, including those facing the most serious threats. Just out in Contraception:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Society of Family Planning Research Practice Support: Digital and data security for abortion research in a post-Dobbs era—A primer for qualitative researchers
Abortion is banned or severely restricted in nearly half of the United States. Research on the impact of these restrictions and abortion care has neve…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Big moment for me, my first-ever publication credit!
The Digital Defense Fund team contributed to this paper on practical data privacy practices for research with abortion seekers, including those facing the most serious threats. Just out in Contraception:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Digital Defense Fund team contributed to this paper on practical data privacy practices for research with abortion seekers, including those facing the most serious threats. Just out in Contraception:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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even for an unhinged presidency this week has been pretty fuckin unhinged tbh
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
even for an unhinged presidency this week has been pretty fuckin unhinged tbh
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Another reminder that people around the world risk their lives for liberties that many Americans seem ready to surrender without a fight or even a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Another reminder that people around the world risk their lives for liberties that many Americans seem ready to surrender without a fight or even a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...
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The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.
FREAKIER FRIDAY but instead of mother-daughter swap a wife-husband swap. The husband will cry when he realizes that not only is he responsible for his day job but also family management.
August 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
FREAKIER FRIDAY but instead of mother-daughter swap a wife-husband swap. The husband will cry when he realizes that not only is he responsible for his day job but also family management.
RESEARCH IDEA! What if we recruited people to fill out research surveys at concerts? For example, surveying people's knowledge and contraceptive beliefs at a Bad Bunny concert. Who will fund me to do it?!
July 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
RESEARCH IDEA! What if we recruited people to fill out research surveys at concerts? For example, surveying people's knowledge and contraceptive beliefs at a Bad Bunny concert. Who will fund me to do it?!
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Publishing “both sides” is not just moral bankruptcy, it is an affront to the central mission of journalism (yes, even of opinion journalism): to help people honestly understand the world. There aren’t “both side” to climate change, slavery, genocide in Nazi Germany, nor to genocide in Gaza.
July 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Publishing “both sides” is not just moral bankruptcy, it is an affront to the central mission of journalism (yes, even of opinion journalism): to help people honestly understand the world. There aren’t “both side” to climate change, slavery, genocide in Nazi Germany, nor to genocide in Gaza.
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I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
I wouldn't say this is "cool", but it is interesting. I continue to be fascinated by people (predominantly women) who take on their spouse's last name.
This is very cool. Women taking their husband’s name as a way to defuse tension arising from having equal or greater income. Symbolically giving him dominance, to compensate for real loss of relative power.
New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages.
As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I wouldn't say this is "cool", but it is interesting. I continue to be fascinated by people (predominantly women) who take on their spouse's last name.
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“Black women in America are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes—we know this thanks to CDC data,” says SiX’s Jennifer Driver to @rollingstone.com.
Now that data is under attack.
Read more on the dangerous consequences of federal health cuts: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Now that data is under attack.
Read more on the dangerous consequences of federal health cuts: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
How Trump's CDC Purge Will Affect Reproductive Health: 'Women Will Die'
CDC staffers and medical experts sound the alarm on how the gutting of the federal health agencies will put women’s lives at risk
www.rollingstone.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“Black women in America are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes—we know this thanks to CDC data,” says SiX’s Jennifer Driver to @rollingstone.com.
Now that data is under attack.
Read more on the dangerous consequences of federal health cuts: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Now that data is under attack.
Read more on the dangerous consequences of federal health cuts: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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If SCOTUS decides in Trump's favor, we are in Argentina's "Dirty War" territory, where the Argentinian junta at the time disappeared thousands of citizens, and even threw some opponents out of planes at 10,000 feet.
If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
April 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If SCOTUS decides in Trump's favor, we are in Argentina's "Dirty War" territory, where the Argentinian junta at the time disappeared thousands of citizens, and even threw some opponents out of planes at 10,000 feet.
Que viva la cultura!
Flanked by cuatros and congas, Bad Bunny wields the power of Puerto Rico in a joyous and defiant Tiny Desk.
Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert
Flanked by cuatros and congas, Bad Bunny wields the power of Puerto Rico in a joyous and defiant Tiny Desk.
www.npr.org
April 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Que viva la cultura!
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I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
April 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
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Fetal personhood justifies invasive surveillance of periods, ovulation, hormones, pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, delivery, postpartum, lactation - I am not joking!
Bills are being advanced in state legislatures that grant rights to embryos and fetuses, aka "fetal personhood."
Folks on the left(s) often frame these as just a threat to abortion. And sure, but that's the tip of the iceberg! Check out/share our fact sheet: static1.squarespace.com/static/5f480...
Folks on the left(s) often frame these as just a threat to abortion. And sure, but that's the tip of the iceberg! Check out/share our fact sheet: static1.squarespace.com/static/5f480...
March 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Fetal personhood justifies invasive surveillance of periods, ovulation, hormones, pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, delivery, postpartum, lactation - I am not joking!
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Reupping my call to speak with Planned Parenthood workers! Especially if you work at an affiliate and are concerned about clinic closures or potential closures! Find me on signal: garnethenderson.12
March 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reupping my call to speak with Planned Parenthood workers! Especially if you work at an affiliate and are concerned about clinic closures or potential closures! Find me on signal: garnethenderson.12
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Maybe the big story isn’t “Texas midwife charged with alleged illegal abortions” but “Texas attacks and closes three clinics providing prenatal care for low income Spanish speakers.”
March 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Maybe the big story isn’t “Texas midwife charged with alleged illegal abortions” but “Texas attacks and closes three clinics providing prenatal care for low income Spanish speakers.”
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You can send five free faxes a month using this service
Chuck Schumer’s phones are turned off, but faxes are going through just fine:
(202) 228-3027
app.hellofax.com/account/logIn
Chuck Schumer’s phones are turned off, but faxes are going through just fine:
(202) 228-3027
app.hellofax.com/account/logIn
a group of soldiers are standing in a row wearing helmets and armor .
Alt: a group of soldiers are standing in a row wearing helmets and armor: “I’m doing my part!”
media.tenor.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
You can send five free faxes a month using this service
Chuck Schumer’s phones are turned off, but faxes are going through just fine:
(202) 228-3027
app.hellofax.com/account/logIn
Chuck Schumer’s phones are turned off, but faxes are going through just fine:
(202) 228-3027
app.hellofax.com/account/logIn
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"Sexual & gender-based violence—which has risen in frequency & severity—is being perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a strategy of war for Israel to dominate and destroy the Palestinian people.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
March 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Sexual & gender-based violence—which has risen in frequency & severity—is being perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a strategy of war for Israel to dominate and destroy the Palestinian people.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...