The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health [Paperback]

What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honored and valued queer and trans peoples lives, bodies and expertise? What if LGBTQ+ communities led and organized our own health care as a form of mutual aid? What if every aspect of our health care was rooted in a commitment to our healing, pleasure and liberation?
LGBTQ+ health care doesnt look like this today, but it could. This is the care we dream of.
Through a series of essays (by the author and others) and interviews, this book by the editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthologyThe Remedyoffers possibilities—grounded in historical examples, present-day experiments, and dreams of the future  for more liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health and healing. It challenges readers to think differently about LGBTQ+ health and asks what it would look if our health care was rooted in a commitment to the flourishing and liberation of all LGBTQ+ people. This book is a calling out, a calling in and a call to action. It is a spell of healing and transformation, rooted in love.CAThe follow-up to the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthologyThe Remedy: new ways of imagining what LGBTQ+ health care should look like.Zena Sharman is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate. Shes the editor of two books, including the Lambda Literary award-winning anthologyThe Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care. An engaging speaker, Zena brings her passion for LGBTQ+ health to audiences of health care providers and students across North America.Introduction
Queer Alchemy: Perverting the Health Care System, Fighting to Win
Seed
Pleasure as the Baseline: Interview with Dawn Serra
Dear First-Year Medical Student
Putting Yourself on the Line: Interview with Ronica Mukerjee
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