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Kelli Dunham

@kellidunham.bsky.social
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Nurse. Comedian. Writer. Nonbinary person. Laughter isn't the BEST medicine, because we have antibiotics and vaccines. But it's a great tool!

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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Just heard someone refer to themselves as "numb as a box of rocks" which is less ableist right? Are rocks numb? They don't feel right? But do we know this? And if so, how? This is going down the road of captcha asking me if I'm really human, and it stumps me for just a moment.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I'm writing a piece for my substack about how to make MOTHER'S DAY SUCK LESS. Want to add your thoughts on my 1-question Google form? I can link back to your socials or substack OR you can be anonymous and tell folks about their nonsense while still maintaining privacy. bit.ly/makemothersd...
Two white people smile at camera, one older with curly hair the other mid 40s with a pink shirt and short hair cutDoes mother's day have to suck so much, answer questions on Hoping Intentionally
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Looking forward!
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I did a live react to reading a 30 year old letter to my mom written when I was a nun. But I had to stop bc I was so profoundly embarrassed for how preachy I was. Def not what my mom needed at that point in her life. Or ever! bit.ly/livereactnun
person wearing white nun garb and holding a small baby
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It's good Friday which means it's CPTSD day for all your ex-nun friends. What? I'm your only ex-nun friend? I wrote up some convent takeaways with their IRL possible applications. In random order, here are a few.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I appreciate folks being conscientious about image description, I’m actively trying to hold myself to a higher standard. And also “standing on stage in a red sweater holding a diet Mountain Dew” could be applied at almost any time to photos of me.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I know noticing what Gen Z And Gen Alpha CAN’T do is fun but I’m fascinated by the things they’re great at. Why is this generation SO good at Simon Sez?
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Can’t wait! It’s virtual so everyone can be a part! Well everyone with internet.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Me as a nurse: your pain is valid, of course. Let's brainstorm together to find some possible solutions. Me as a patient: Of course, I should be healed by now through sheer willpower. And optimism.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Can a show with the word "dead" in the title be funny. How about if it includes ex-nun stories? How about then? The stories are from a current ex-nun, but I was a current nun when they happened. Anyway it's happening in Columbus this weekend! The show that is. bit.ly/secondhelpin...
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Second Helping: 2 Dead Lovers, Dead Funny - Kelli Dunham with Karen Marie Opening
Comedy event in Columbus by Kelli Dunham and 4 others on Saturday, March 22 20255 posts in the discussion.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This is NOT a rhetorical question: do I need to keep every video message I made telling people my mom had died? And if not, why am I still keeping them? Electronic hoarding really is a thing.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Yesterday's Moment of Teenage Diplomacy. Scene: The school library, lunchtime. An adult and a teenager sit together at a table, using a large sheet of paper to lay out the timeline for a student's story. (1/7)
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I'm not super hopeful since it seems this country is really quite fine with children dying (eg what changed after Sandy Hook)...what would it take to change? This is not rhetorical I really don't know.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
On a scale from one to ten, how weird is it to write a Kool and the Gang Celebrate parody to promote a substack post? bit.ly/celebrateons.... What if there are multiple verses?
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Celebrate Bad Times (Oh Yeah)
A Practical Application Of Dubious Fashion Choices
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I'm feeling spiky about this from a parts of speech standpoint but I'm feeling like there is some potential promise to this tactic.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Help! I'm teaching storytelling to middle school students in NYC who need to tell their stories. You can imagine. Introducing them to the concept of zines. Please send me links to printable zines that might inspire them. Any topic (maybe not "my dad's yacht is too small." Pl share widely.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
So, just checking, we're gonna be blamed for every domestic airplane crash for the next four years? Great. I can’t wait for Fox News to report that turbulence is now caused by “too many pronouns in the cockpit.”
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Doctors hate when you say 'Can you note in my chart that you're refusing to order that test?' They hate it so much that they suddenly remember OMG I can indeed order the test! #medicalselfadvocacy
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Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Elon owns a social media company and has questionable relationships with foreign adversaries. This is very, very dangerous and Congress must act. We need one Republican to call for hearings. One to join us on our many bills to put guardrails in place.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
There are many moments I am grateful for being single, but almost never so more than looking at the faces of worried men on the subway on valentine's day, holding bodega flowers.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I feel like one of my jobs right now is to be as calm as possible because there are folks more vulnerable than me who need to be supported. And also I had to make gravy three times yesterday because I forgot that whisks exist until the third time. So there's that.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/01/2025
📣 Yesterday I posted a long thread of tables breaking out total Medicaid/CHIP enrollment in all 50 states (+ DC & the 5 U.S. territories). Today I've compiled all 52 graphics (suitable for sharing!) into one place. SHARE WIDELY W/YOUR MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OR SENATE! acasignups.net/25/01/29/how...
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How many people have Medicaid/CHIP coverage in YOUR Congressional District?
I recently posted Congressional District-level breakouts of total enrollment in ACA Exchange Plans & Basic Health Plans as well as Medicare (both Fee For Service and Advantage plans). The master sprea...
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Rich people will not be getting poorer in the next four years! I'm an older nonbinary person with some mobility stuff. I'm also a nurse. I'm going to support vulnerable communities but I'm also going to go learn botox for a side hustle. We need ways to make money from rich people to survive.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I'm on deadline for three different writing projects but I just discovered nun reaction youtube. I guess my compromise is rage-reading here?
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Impact Institute at Northwestern University @impactinstitute.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
ISGMH’s alithia zamantakis will appear on @wttw.bsky.social this evening to discuss the impact of recent executive orders on transgender individuals. Tune in to "Chicago Tonight" at 5:30pm CT: news.wttw.com/content/chic...
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Watch and listen to Chicago Tonight live on your mobile device, streaming to your smart TV, or on your computer.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We kept Haitians who tested positive for HIV at Gitmo in the 90s. You know how many of those folks are dead now, even though they were paroled into the US right before new medications were available? ALL OF THEM.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I’m back on the apps because dystopian romance is more fun to live than dystopian fiction. You know what AI really doesn’t understand? What queers are looking for. Sending bots that look like what men think women want in a woman is so old fashioned!
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I mean, the federal government now says I don't exist. But I'm pretty sure I still do. I think in this particular case I'm correct.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Saturday afternoon I’m doing a free virtual workshop with a long time ER nurse about preparing for ER visits. The system sucks so we’ll be brainstorming harm reduction! bit.ly/moreinfovuln...
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Free virtual health workshops! | KELLI DUNHAM
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Blueskyfolk over 50: what is the most obvious "sorry we were looking for someone younger" work-related rejection you've gotten?
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I’m just discovering #5amwritersclub! Where have you been all my life?
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Saturday afternoon I’m doing a free virtual workshop with a long time ER nurse about preparing for ER visits. The system sucks so we’ll be brainstorming harm reduction! bit.ly/moreinfovuln...
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Free virtual health workshops! | KELLI DUNHAM
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
After having it on hold for months, it is finally my turn to check out the audiobook version of My Name Is Barbra! And now I have a full-time job.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Today is the 8th anniversary of Bryn Kelly's death. But I wrote something about her life. And her wisdom. And of course, snark!!! kellidunham.substack.com/p/rememberin...
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Remembering Bryn Kelly: 3 Wise Things Bryn Said
Wise. And snarky. But you knew that, right?
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We'll have (more of) a resurgence of communicable diseases and then hopefully everyone will remember how much polio sucks and then hopefully we'll resume vaccinating our children? As humans we're theoretically capable of understanding something is bad without having to experience it. Theoretically.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Can’t wait!
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I was told as a student-athlete in the 80s to "tone down" my play, that it was too "aggressive looking." IN VOLLEYBALL! Is that what we want? I mean, obviously we do. But this is an excellent point. This is the kind of thing that tears apart youth sports, especially women's teams. Not transfolks.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Do I really need to keep all 10 different videos I sent to tell people my mom died? They're just taking up space on my phone. And what do I think I might do with them? Turn them into stand up comedy? Well. Hmmm.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Can folks please pass along this info about some free virtual health workshops to strategize around our own health before the administration change? www.kellidunham.com/free-virtual...
Free health strategy workshops

For lgbt folks and others vulnerable to healthcare system dysfunction

When A Casserole Is Not Enough: Extremely Practical Tips For Building Extended Communities of Care January 14th at 8 pm ET

Emergency! Planning For Unplanned Healthcare January 18th at 3 PM ET with special guestS ER nurse Harvey Katz and Leah Strock, FNP

More information and registration at kellidunham.com
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Would everyone in my life PLEASE watch these two episodes so we can talk about it??? This was a podcast as fine art. Also the dog who (it turns out) didn’t want to go camping? SO RELATABLE!
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A piece re: surprising relationship w/ my mom written 4 Huffpost, picked up by Buzzfeed; nowfolks are asking for a full text of the Grief Stinks book I made for my mom. So I put it on my substack. It's done in crayon. Perhaps this makes you feel better about your decisions? bit.ly/griefstinksb...
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Grief Stinks: 13 Tiny But Potentially Helpful Tips For Getting Through Sad Times
The year my mom and I both became widows is also the year we somehow became friends.Hey!
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Apparently I run Tiny Comedy Camps now. In Brooklyn. The kids are pretty great.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
My sister and I just introduced my nephew into the concept of a speaking in tongues focused Christian concept album based on the chronicles of narnia and the thing about growing up born again in the 80s is that all the most serious stuff sounds like it’s overdone satire.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Holiday travelers= tons of luggage. Also, animals. Amtrak is a scene from Dr Doolittle this AM. If you travel for a living, this is theoretically mildly annoying BUT holiday travelers observe the quiet car regulations like a religion. Not one word has been spoken in 30 minutes. It's delightful.
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
You've obviously never worked with teenagers--or maybe even been a teenager yourself--to think you're going to mess with pizza. This is so great. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/repu...
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Republicans killed a pizza party for turning kids trans. Then something surprising happened. - LGBTQ Nation
City council members tried defunding a weekly pizza party for LGBTQ+ students. But...
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I'm not sure, but I think hopeful cat content might be my thing now. Which is a great addition to "that comedian who talks about death all the time"
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Healing Lessons From Xerox the Cat
(Or: How One Ginger Feline Taught Me Patience, Loud Howling, and the Importance of a Backup Plan)
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
If you want to creation an intense rejection tolerance event in training for like, perhaps something like high end modeling, I highly recommend being single and a freelancer in the month of December. Great training!
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Old queer single emotional survival tip: go to ikea at 6 pm on a weekday. Watching couples (some with cranky hungry children) fight over living room sets is…sad. But also as a two time widow i occasionally pardon myself for a teeniest bit of schadenfreude!
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Kelli Dunham @kellidunham.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The right loves to vilify the government interference in our lives but tbh I only started wearing my seatbelt to avoid fines. And wearing a seatbelt decreases traffic fatalities by half. Thanks for the “interference” government!
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