The remedy: queer and trans voices on health and health care - Zena Sharman

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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.