Ebook: The remedy: queer and trans voices on health and health care

"To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. 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, Kelli Dunham, and many more."--;Introduction: Why Queer and Trans Health Stories Matter / Zena Sharman -- Call in Sick / Vivek Shraya -- Name Game: Being Seen in My Entirety / Kyle Taylor-Shaughnessy -- Unlearning: Improving Trans Care by Reorienting Medical and Nursing Discourse / Soma Navidson -- Navigating This Life as a Black Intersex Man / Sean Saifa Wall -- Confessions of a Gender Specialist / Sand C. Chang -- Read This Before Your Next Clinical Visit: Cheap Advice for Frequent Patients / Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Q Card Project (Seattle, Washington) -- Using Medical Education to Advance Health of LGBT Individuals / Kristen L. Eckstrand -- Health as a Spiritual Practice: Or, Please Don't Call Me "Lady" / Sinclair Sexsmith -- Our Caregiving, Ourselves / Kelli Dunham -- Queer in Common Country / Kara Sievewright -- NIRKwUSCIN / Chase Willier -- A Journey Towards Safety / Ahmed Danny Ramadan -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services LGBTQ+ Newcomer Initiatives (Toronto, Ontario) -- Sex Work Solidarity as Healing, in Four Parts / Amber Dawn -- The Disclosure of Specialization: A QPOC Therapist's Questions about Embodies Mirroring and Mentoring / Keiko Lane -- Trans Grit / Cooper Lee Bombardier -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Trans Buddy Program (Nashville Tennesee) -- Rivers of our Lives: Stigma and Dislocations as Part of Life Course / Craig Barron -- Sick of It: One Patient's Adventures in heterononormativity / Caitlin Crawshaw -- Remedial Asexuality: Sexualnormativity in Health Care / A.K. Morrissey -- Five Things Providers Need to Know about Bisexual People / Margaret Robinson -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Affirmations Deck (Toronto, Ontario) -- Breaking Down Barriers: A Journey to Increase Collaboration and Understanding Between LGBT2-SQ and Medical Communities / Jenna J. Webber and Rita O'Link -- Baby Escape Plan Two / j wallace skelton -- Mind Your Words / Xeph Kalma -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre (Vancouver, BC) -- We Don't Have to Numb Out to Be Out / Cassia Chambers-Gammill and Sailor Holladay -- Depathologizing Trans / Eli Erlick -- Through the Body -- Fayza Bundalli -- healing exchanges: the necessity of beloved community for queer survivors of colour / Ariel Estrella -- Not a Liability: On Trauma-Informed Care and Community Acupuncture / Lisa Baird -- Listen / Sossity Chiricuzio -- Waiting on Information from Doctors / Esther McPhee.