The Remedy

Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

Zena Sharman

• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781551526584
• eBook ISBN: 9781551526591
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery
• Index: Social Sciences

Winner, Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Anthology)

The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care needs, to a lesbian couple dealing with the experience of cancer, to young trans people who struggle to find health-care providers who treat them with dignity and respect. The book also includes essays by health-care providers, activists and leaders with something to say about the challenges, politics, and opportunities surrounding LGBTQ health issues.

Both exceptionally moving and an incendiary call-to-arms, The Remedy is a must-read for anyone—gay, straight, trans, and otherwise—passionately concerned about the right to proper health care for all.

Contributors include Amber Dawn, Sinclair Sexsmith, Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco, Cooper Lee Bombardier, Kara Sievewright, and Kelli Dunham.

Zena Sharman is a passionate advocate for queer and trans health. She has over a decade's experience in health research; currently she is Director of Strategy at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Zena is also co-editor of Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: Why Queer and Trans Health Stories Matter
• call in sick
• Name Game: Being Seen in My Entirety
• Unlearning: Improving Trans Care by Reorienting Medical and Nursing Discourse
• Navigating This Life as a Black Intersex Man
• Confessions of a Gender Specialist
• Read This Before Your Next Clinical Visit: Cheap Advice for Frequent Patients
• Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile:
• Using Medical Education to Advance Health of LGBT Individuals
• Health as a Spiritual Practice: Or, Please Don’t Call Me “Lady”
• Our Caregiving, Ourselves
• Queer in Common Country
• NIRKwUSCIN
• A Journey Towards Safety
• Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile:
• Sex Work Solidarity as Healing: in four parts
• The Disclosure of Specialization: A QPOC Therapist’s Questions about Embodied Mirroring and Mentoring
• Trans Grit
• Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile:
• Rivers of Our Lives: Stigma and Dislocations as Part of Life Course
• Sick of it: One patient’s adventures in heteronormativity
• Remedial Asexuality: Sexualnormativity in Health Care
• Five Things Providers Need to Know about Bisexual People
• Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile:
• Breaking Down Barriers: A Journey to Increase Collaboration and Understanding Between LGBT2-SQ and Medical Communities
• baby escape plan two
• Mind Your Words
• Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile:
• We Don’t Have to Numb Out to Be Out
• Depathologizing Trans
• Through the Body
• healing exchanges: the necessity of beloved community for queer survivors of colour
• Not a Liability: On Trauma-Informed Care and Community Acupuncture
• Listen
• Waiting on Information from Doctors
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• Contributor biographies
• Editor Biography