Everett Maroon, MPH

@evmaroon.bsky.social

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Nonprofit leader in rural health. Loves mocha & progress. Sweater vest aficionado. Once and future author. Former Co-Chair, WA LGBTQ Commission.

A White House headline so obscenely hateful I’d rather not write it out here.
Standing in front of the legislators’ steps to the Washington State Capitol building, from left to right it is Sawyer, Sam, and me, looking snappy in our suit jackets, to take a selfie before the Pride flag raising ceremony begins.
The edge of a blue house, or maybe more properly stated as the corner, jutting out next to a miniature maple tree, which contrasts against the blue paint with its own emerging red leaves; another early spring tree behind it is a bright green. The picture cannot show us the merry tubes of songbirds chirping to each other in the branches, nor render the fine light blue of the sky. This is my front porch and it is a little balm against the stress of my governments assertions of war crimes.
People attending a World AIDS Day vigil and talk in Walla Walla. A lit tree behind them stands in white lights, while the attendees are dressed in winter wear, while they hold vigil candles. A semicircle of people creates a centering of love and determination.
A photo of ten people wearing silly garb because we all like each other.
A quietly lit stage ahead of a busy conference day, with a mass of audience chairs lined up neatly.
Photo of a sunny but cold day, with an irregular shaped lake bank, the morning sun glistening off the lake, which itself is surrounded by evergreens. A one tree branch frames the foreground.
Me, a big guy with glasses, giving a statue of Pikachu a hug in NYC’s Nintendo store.
A blue Kadlec hospital sign in the background behind Senator Maria Cantwell and me at a podium talking about the need to keep our health safety net in place.
A group of students listening to a drug checking technician, who is sitting next to FTIR spectrometer and laptop.
Everett Maroon, Co-chair of the WA State LGBTQ Commission, speaks outside the administration building of Walla Walla University, in support of queer and trans student rights on campus.
A screenshot of the national parks page that still lists the heading of “LGBTQ Heritage.”
Three cups on a shelf marked Eagles, I’m just innit for commercials and Kendrick Lamar, and Chiefs. The cup in the middle has all the money.
My labradoodle, Puddles, generously receiving a pat in my living room.
A draft bill text from the official congressional clerk with the inane and harmful goal of letting the FDA approve AI as prescribing physicians.
A mildly good looking trans man with dark brown hair and a goatee and glasses, wearing his usual sweater vest, at a literary convention, holding a footlong sign of white paper and handwritten in purple ink, which reads, “you cannot erase trans literature.”
A close up of a maple-colored interior door with a large brown plaque mounted to the side of the door. In white sans serif font, it reads, “Governor’s Office.”
This is a graph of participant-reported usage of naloxone and narcan to try to reverse overdose, as part of my agency’s prevention work since 2019. This last year 2024 has hit some extremes in reversals I didn’t anticipate for our rural region. It’s bad, folks.
Lunch box drawing. Lunch box is playing hide and seek under the stairs. It reads, Hide & Seek Winner!