Dr. Teresa Graziano (they/them)

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Robert McKay

This is a picture of my beautiful cat Maxine who is gray, black, and white, with looooong white whiskers wearing a rainbow knit sweater that I am working on

2/3 reviewers say my methods sections are TOO thorough 😎😎😎

And to tone it down 🤐🤐🤐

Weeeee - excited to share my lab: SAGE Lab!

✨️ Sexuality, Ability, Gender, and Embodiment ✨️

My RAs and I have some really awesome stuff cooking!

This is the future!!!

My little sister has my dream job. As part of her adult day program, she goes to local cat shelters and plays with the cats for a few hours each day. She has some chores bit she said its mostly just cat snuggles.

Are we political scientists now?

Had a great time lecturing on Medical Aid in Dying & Disability Justice with @eliseconant.bsky.social in @garlicksauce.bsky.social poli sci class today!

Hard same

As I do every fall, read some @thellpsx.bsky.social to my senior nursing students, we made care webs, and we imagined a crip nursing future

When they tell you to shut up and just obey the Dear Leader's words, just remember...

And also "my gay daughter needs a job!"

My lil sister with IDD just called me and during went to tell my mom im seeing my college roommate and her husband tonight... pauses, out loud says "wait this is Teresas friend... Teresa do they have a husband or wife or spouse?" And then continued.

Obsessed with her

Also need to tag @laura4n.bsky.social

I audibly gasped when this was said because it was so sick hahaha

Historic $16M Estate Gift Will Expand Nursing Scholarships at UVM | College of Nursing and Health Sciences | The University of Vermont Largest gift to UVM's College of Nursing and Health Sciences will help address nursing shortage in Vermont and nationally.

A historic $16M gift to UVM's College of Nursing and Health Sciences, from George Bemis ’60, MD, in honor of his late wife, Nancy Bemis, RN, will significantly expand access to nursing education through scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students. Learn more ⬇️ go.uvm.edu/nursinggift

The #GarlickBLT (book launch tour) has hit my mailbox!!!

@garlicksauce.bsky.social

They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.

“I’m still searching...looking around to see where else I can use these skills"

Thank you @apoorvanyt.bsky.social for profiling these amazing US scientists @nytopinion.nytimes.com

I hope they all find new careers

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

“The military would never turn on its own people”

I’m from Philadelphia, a city where the police firebombed citizens.

They sent troops to Kent State in 1970. They sent troops to NYU last year.

I really need y’all to sit & examine what makes you think you were ever exempt from state violence.

Very relevant today.

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

‘As Deleuze and Guattari wrote fascism in the 1930s was not fundamentally a problem of ignorance: ‘The masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism’’
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

That's on a #GarlickBLT (book launch tour)

Oncology nurse here.
Leucovorin is a drug critical to safe administration of life-saving cancer treatment (colon cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, toname a few). We've experienced very severe shortages in the past.

Please, just no.

We Should Be So Much Further Ahead….

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Lol why do 2 negative evaluations overshadow 30 positive ones

Your pie threw me through a minor loop bc pumpkin exists but I immediately calmed down and am on board - including the donut, as a vermonter who has access to farm fresh plain cider donuts (ik this is baked good privilege)

I don't know, can an AI doula massage your back during transition? Hold your hand? Hold your cup when you take a drink? Hold your hand to balance in yoga poses? Walk down the street to pick up dinner for you after delivery? Physically position your baby for breastfeeding?

I thought not.