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littlewishling's review
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Really fantastic. Super informative and also eye-opening on a variety of issues in health and healthcare. Definitely recommend especially for anyone working in health.
Content Warnings
Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, and Transphobia
allisonplus's review
4.0
"In discussing bodies, not identities, we can allow people to exist in the social world as they choose, while retaining our capacity to understand and address..."
"If there is a collective noun for my people, it could be a stubborn. Never mess with a stubborn of queers."
"This might not be 'the remedy,' but your ability to communicate your story, to relate to the stranger(s) in front of you is probably the one most immediate tool you have. And you have a small window of opportunity."
"We see you.
We see a lot of our people struggling under pretty lights.
We see your resourceful sparkle.
You can act with intention, stay with surprise, and find joy in solitude.
You can feel the hard stuff.
Let it pass through you as you head toward you next iteration."
"We make do and we re-make. We crowdsource our health in a community with a long history of caring for one another outside and often in spite of dominant systems and structures. We document and gather and share information, filling the gaps in the evidence where our lives, needs, and identities are increasingly but still insufficiently visible. We tell stores, and we take care of each other."
"If there is a collective noun for my people, it could be a stubborn. Never mess with a stubborn of queers."
"This might not be 'the remedy,' but your ability to communicate your story, to relate to the stranger(s) in front of you is probably the one most immediate tool you have. And you have a small window of opportunity."
"We see you.
We see a lot of our people struggling under pretty lights.
We see your resourceful sparkle.
You can act with intention, stay with surprise, and find joy in solitude.
You can feel the hard stuff.
Let it pass through you as you head toward you next iteration."
"We make do and we re-make. We crowdsource our health in a community with a long history of caring for one another outside and often in spite of dominant systems and structures. We document and gather and share information, filling the gaps in the evidence where our lives, needs, and identities are increasingly but still insufficiently visible. We tell stores, and we take care of each other."
kant_stop_reading's review
3.0
This book certainly covers an important topic of which I am mainly ignorant. It provides a variety of view points from this community. I found it a useful reminder for people in health care to be conscious of how they interact with ALL patients. There is a chapter about a patient receiving cancer treatment that I could personally relate to and it wasn't a perception limited to only a trans-gendered person's perspective but could easily have been any type of person undergoing the humiliating process of fighting cancer. The middle chapters lacked the depth of story I needed to be drawn in to understand how the struggles of this community are different from the struggles of any other. Further, I found one chapter in particular confusing because up until this point the pretext was that there should be seamless inclusion of all people, yet when asked how they would benefit from a large donation to the Trans Buddy Program in TN, the response was to basically create a facility that employed only trans-sexual employees. To me this line of thinking is why SJW has a negative connotation; if you want to build a community of only one type of person to the exclusion and discomfort of others, then why are you complaining if that is what the (majority of) people around you have done? The later portion of the book improved by raising more specific examples that health care providers could benefit from exploring. I guess the title of the book raised my expectations of what I could glean from the text. This population is increasingly visible in my own practice and I was hoping to get better suggestions on how to offer appropriate communication and compassionate care, but I was left wanting. It will make me look for another reference or two. Overall I felt that this was a brief, easy read that gave a very shallow view of an area worth broader examination.
helmagnusdottir's review
5.0
An amazing collection of healthcare system tips, personal tales, healing, interviews, poetry, and a lot of love. This is a must-read if you're queer, trans, a healthcare professional, or love someone who is any or all of the three. This book deals with complex trauma, intersectional health, systemic barriers and generational pain. I loved reading this, and had trouble putting it down. Thanks again Zena.
(Many of my friends have work in this book, but that means I read it with the hope they had given their best to it, and I was blown away. Such powerful words.)
(Many of my friends have work in this book, but that means I read it with the hope they had given their best to it, and I was blown away. Such powerful words.)
catcouch's review
5.0
This is such an important book -- it's an amazing collection of experiences with, perspectives on, approaches to and initiatives in queer and trans health that really illustrates where we're at, where we need to be, and how we might get there. Just incredible. Thank you so much to everyone involved for this gift. A must read for absolutely everyone!
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