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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.
"This anthology on health care for queer and transgender people is as much an archive of experience as it is a call to action ... It’s a must-read for health care professionals and students going into the field, those navigating the system or supporting others through it, and anyone interested in honest, informed writing on the subject." —Publishers Weekly
"I loved reading The Remedy – what a wonderful compilation of diverse voices! This anthology demonstrates just how important it is for queer and trans people to tell their stories, and for the health care community to listen." —Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, and editor of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
"The Remedy provides a rich tapestry of narratives across the spectrum of human sexuality and includes descriptions of innovations from committed health professionals who address the many gaps in providing attuned, informed care to queer and trans people." —Allan Peterkin, MD, and co-author of Caring for Lesbian and Gay People: A Clinical Guide
"The Remedy is a bandage lovingly placed on the open wounds of every LGBTQAI person afraid of going to a doctor. This book does not just ask doctors to follow the oath of 'first do no harm'; it also demands medical practitioners respect, understand, and affirm our queer lives, bodies, and families. The Remedy is the collection of healing and solidarity queers desperately need." —Sassafras Lowrey, author of Lost Boi
Zena Sharman: Zena Sharman is a passionate advocate for queer and trans health. Zena is also co-editor of Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. Currently she is Director of Strategy at the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
Table of Contents
Trans Grit – Cooper Lee Bombardier
beloved exchanges: the necessity of collective healing for queer survivors of color – Ariel Estrella
Not a Liability: On Trauma-Informed Care and Community Acupuncture – Lisa Baird
Health as a Spiritual Practice. Or, Please Don’t Call Me “Lady” – Sinclair Sexsmith
5 Things Providers Need to Know About Bisexual People – Margaret Robinson
Sick of it: One patient’s adventures in heteronormativity – Caitlin Crawshaw
Title TBD – j wallace skelton
Using Medical Education to Advance Health of LGBT Individuals – Kristen L. Eckstrand
Breaking Down Barriers: A Journey To Increase Collaboration and Understanding Between LGBT2-SQ and Medical Communities – Jenna Webber and Rita OLink
Unlearning: improving trans care by reorienting medical and nursing discourse – ellie june navidson
Depathologizing Trans – Eli Erlick
Confessions of A Gender Specialist – Sand C. Chang
Remedial Asexuality: Sexualnormativity in Health Care – A. K. Morrissey
Navigating this Life as a Black Intersex Man – Sean Saifa Wall
Rivers of Our Lives: Stigma and Dislocations as Part of Life Course – Craig Barron
Read this before your next clinical visit: cheap advice for frequent patients – Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco
Mind your Words – Xeph Kalma
Name Game: Being Seen In My Entirety – Kyle Taylor-Shaughnessy
Title TBD – Chase Willier
The Disclosure of Specialization: A QPOC Therapist’s Questions about Embodied Mirroring and Mentoring – Keiko Lane
Listen – Sossity Chiricuzio
Sex Work Solidarity as Healing: in four parts – Amber Dawn
Queer in Common Country – Kara Sievewright
Our Caregiving, Ourselves – Kelli Dunham
We Don’t Have to Numb Out to Be Out – Cassia Gammill and Sailor Holladay