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A review by allisonplus
The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care by Zena Sharman
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."