Candace Winstead
@candacewinstead.bsky.social
Immunologist, college professor... invested in harm reduction & academic/community engagement via service learning.
Who’s a good girl?? 🥰
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Who’s a good girl?? 🥰
SLO and SB county folks!
Join the rapid response network helping keep our community safe from ICE and bearing witness to their inhumane & illegal practices.
Santa Maria training on Nov 9, 1-4 PM, rsvp at QR code, location given after RSVP
Join the rapid response network helping keep our community safe from ICE and bearing witness to their inhumane & illegal practices.
Santa Maria training on Nov 9, 1-4 PM, rsvp at QR code, location given after RSVP
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
SLO and SB county folks!
Join the rapid response network helping keep our community safe from ICE and bearing witness to their inhumane & illegal practices.
Santa Maria training on Nov 9, 1-4 PM, rsvp at QR code, location given after RSVP
Join the rapid response network helping keep our community safe from ICE and bearing witness to their inhumane & illegal practices.
Santa Maria training on Nov 9, 1-4 PM, rsvp at QR code, location given after RSVP
Hey CA! Vote YES on Prop 50!
We had the whole family for our ballot drop (18 yo 1st election!)
If you lost you mail in ballot you can get one at your polling place, locations here: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...
We had the whole family for our ballot drop (18 yo 1st election!)
If you lost you mail in ballot you can get one at your polling place, locations here: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hey CA! Vote YES on Prop 50!
We had the whole family for our ballot drop (18 yo 1st election!)
If you lost you mail in ballot you can get one at your polling place, locations here: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...
We had the whole family for our ballot drop (18 yo 1st election!)
If you lost you mail in ballot you can get one at your polling place, locations here: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...
This weekend brought to you by the Eastern Sierra, mountains of my heart.
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
This weekend brought to you by the Eastern Sierra, mountains of my heart.
Zyra says “HI MAGGIE” (she’s loud)
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Zyra says “HI MAGGIE” (she’s loud)
Got Covid and Flu done for kid about to go into the dorm cesspool!
He had to say he has asthma for Covid shot. 😒 This is bullshit but I’m grateful it worked
He had to say he has asthma for Covid shot. 😒 This is bullshit but I’m grateful it worked
September 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Got Covid and Flu done for kid about to go into the dorm cesspool!
He had to say he has asthma for Covid shot. 😒 This is bullshit but I’m grateful it worked
He had to say he has asthma for Covid shot. 😒 This is bullshit but I’m grateful it worked
First time ever- our International Overdose Awareness Day event is actually including visible harm reduction advocacy (other than just our table)!!
I will be speaking on a harm reduction panel with these badass SLO Bangers! Excited and a lil nervous!
Support your local syringe exchange! ❤️🔥
I will be speaking on a harm reduction panel with these badass SLO Bangers! Excited and a lil nervous!
Support your local syringe exchange! ❤️🔥
August 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
First time ever- our International Overdose Awareness Day event is actually including visible harm reduction advocacy (other than just our table)!!
I will be speaking on a harm reduction panel with these badass SLO Bangers! Excited and a lil nervous!
Support your local syringe exchange! ❤️🔥
I will be speaking on a harm reduction panel with these badass SLO Bangers! Excited and a lil nervous!
Support your local syringe exchange! ❤️🔥
SLO Bangers is tabling at this mutual aid event in Nipomo next Sun to benefit local families impacted by ICE.
Come and take a swing at the ICE pig piñata! ❤️🔥
Come and take a swing at the ICE pig piñata! ❤️🔥
August 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
SLO Bangers is tabling at this mutual aid event in Nipomo next Sun to benefit local families impacted by ICE.
Come and take a swing at the ICE pig piñata! ❤️🔥
Come and take a swing at the ICE pig piñata! ❤️🔥
Hi Utah! Made amazing miles roadtripping w these dudes! Skipped lunch and dinner…only place open is Denny’s- I think have not eaten here in decades!
July 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Hi Utah! Made amazing miles roadtripping w these dudes! Skipped lunch and dinner…only place open is Denny’s- I think have not eaten here in decades!
Zyra says, welcome home Izzy!
July 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Zyra says, welcome home Izzy!
After a nerve-racking (for me) and shitty (for husband) week, we needed this date night at the temple of tacos.
I submitted our Opioid Settlement fund renewal (that they are likely to give to cops instead of us) & husband had his vacation w us cancelled by hospital admin. 😭
I submitted our Opioid Settlement fund renewal (that they are likely to give to cops instead of us) & husband had his vacation w us cancelled by hospital admin. 😭
July 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
After a nerve-racking (for me) and shitty (for husband) week, we needed this date night at the temple of tacos.
I submitted our Opioid Settlement fund renewal (that they are likely to give to cops instead of us) & husband had his vacation w us cancelled by hospital admin. 😭
I submitted our Opioid Settlement fund renewal (that they are likely to give to cops instead of us) & husband had his vacation w us cancelled by hospital admin. 😭
Someone set my dog walk difficulty level up today omg
Related- please please don’t walk your dog off leash in a residential neighborhood. 🫠
Signed- reactive doggo mamma working hard w her good girl!
Related- please please don’t walk your dog off leash in a residential neighborhood. 🫠
Signed- reactive doggo mamma working hard w her good girl!
July 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Someone set my dog walk difficulty level up today omg
Related- please please don’t walk your dog off leash in a residential neighborhood. 🫠
Signed- reactive doggo mamma working hard w her good girl!
Related- please please don’t walk your dog off leash in a residential neighborhood. 🫠
Signed- reactive doggo mamma working hard w her good girl!
It’s happening!! I love vacation planning and summer backpacking in the mountains!
July 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It’s happening!! I love vacation planning and summer backpacking in the mountains!
Feeling deeply sad and concerned for the future of my kids in this country. And just everything.
Anyway-Here’s a good girl on her walk yesterday.
Anyway-Here’s a good girl on her walk yesterday.
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Feeling deeply sad and concerned for the future of my kids in this country. And just everything.
Anyway-Here’s a good girl on her walk yesterday.
Anyway-Here’s a good girl on her walk yesterday.
Summer goal: Perfecting doggo selfies.
Work in progress…..
Work in progress…..
June 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Summer goal: Perfecting doggo selfies.
Work in progress…..
Work in progress…..
Happy 18th Birthday to my observant, smart as a whip, sarcastic, empathic kid. The world is better with you in it. 🥹
The kid has always always loved balloons, and his birthday treat request has been blueberry cobbler for the last 10 years or so!
The kid has always always loved balloons, and his birthday treat request has been blueberry cobbler for the last 10 years or so!
June 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Happy 18th Birthday to my observant, smart as a whip, sarcastic, empathic kid. The world is better with you in it. 🥹
The kid has always always loved balloons, and his birthday treat request has been blueberry cobbler for the last 10 years or so!
The kid has always always loved balloons, and his birthday treat request has been blueberry cobbler for the last 10 years or so!
Same to you! I decided this night needed some WTF rose paired w my stress eating food of choice….
June 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Same to you! I decided this night needed some WTF rose paired w my stress eating food of choice….
Current mood.
Zyra says everyone gets an A
Zyra says everyone gets an A
June 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Current mood.
Zyra says everyone gets an A
Zyra says everyone gets an A
Celebrating our 9(!!) graduating seniors volunteers woth SLO Bangers! Majors include biology, microbiology and public health! Our program benefits so much from their energy and heart!
Congratulations all! 🪄✨
Congratulations all! 🪄✨
June 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Celebrating our 9(!!) graduating seniors volunteers woth SLO Bangers! Majors include biology, microbiology and public health! Our program benefits so much from their energy and heart!
Congratulations all! 🪄✨
Congratulations all! 🪄✨
HS graduation w this brilliant kind human. 🥹
My heart.
My heart.
June 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
HS graduation w this brilliant kind human. 🥹
My heart.
My heart.
Happy Pride!! Heading to Trans Pride in the Park (Meadow Park, SLO, 1-6) w my kids to table for SLO Bangers!
Looook at these gorg box the donut slinger made when I said for Pride!
Looook at these gorg box the donut slinger made when I said for Pride!
June 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy Pride!! Heading to Trans Pride in the Park (Meadow Park, SLO, 1-6) w my kids to table for SLO Bangers!
Looook at these gorg box the donut slinger made when I said for Pride!
Looook at these gorg box the donut slinger made when I said for Pride!
Outreach event resource fair in Atown at the shelter w these amazing humans! Great time talking about our harm reduction sevices, distro’d a bunch of Naloxone, test strips, pipes and some points.
May 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Outreach event resource fair in Atown at the shelter w these amazing humans! Great time talking about our harm reduction sevices, distro’d a bunch of Naloxone, test strips, pipes and some points.
How my day begins, everyday. A negotiation between coffee drinking and inside the house small ball toss.
May 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
How my day begins, everyday. A negotiation between coffee drinking and inside the house small ball toss.
This morning I opened my office after lecture for office hours and…..I guess I have a new boss!
May 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This morning I opened my office after lecture for office hours and…..I guess I have a new boss!