Podcast appearances and mentions of zena sharman

My guest today is Clinical Counsellor, relationship therapist, and fat activist, Dawn Serra. Dawn offers trauma-informed, weight-neutral, radical mental health care, particularly for those in larger and marginalized bodies. I super enjoyed this conversation about fatphobia, anti-Blackness, ableism, disability, perimenopause, Ozempic and cultivating a kinder relationship with our ever-changing bodies.   Connect with Dawn at tendandcultivate.com   Follow her on Facebook and Instagram     Referenced in this episode   Mia Mingus, disability rights activist and contributor to Octavia's Brood with her story, Hollow   Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride    Sabrina Strings and her book, Fearing the Black Body    Da'Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast    Sonalee Rashatwar @thefatsextherapist   Tressie McMillan Cottom, THICK and Other Essays   Culture Work on TikTok and Substack   Betty Martin   Dr. Asher Larmie, The Fat Doctor   (their Ozempic masterclass is listed here)   Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health   Ep229: What it Feels Like For A Girl with Emelia Symington Fedy on sex and pressure   Ash of The Fat Lip - A Fat Liberation Podcast came up with the infinifat classification - details about the history are here: --- https://fluffykittenparty.com/2021/06/01/fategories-understanding-smallfat-fragility-the-fat-spectrum/ --- https://cherrymax.medium.com/community-origins-of-the-term-superfat-9e98e1b0f201   Covid PSA:   WHO technical document   University of Bristol study   Elevator Covid transmission study   ☎️ Leave feedback for this episode! ☎️    Check out The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year   Learn more about The Numinous Network

The pandemic brought into focus the urgent need for a public health that serves everyone in the community, including those who have traditionally been marginalized. A book by Zena Sharman asks what health care could look like if queer folks had access to safe, appropriate and compassionate medical care. Zena Sharman is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate. Her book, The Care We Dream Of, was published in December 2021.

On this episode we learn all about the incredible work The Care We Dream of from Dr. Zena Sharman. Click here to learn more about our guest.   We discuss the values and the story of collaboration behind this text as well as ways to nurture our own imagination. Learn more about the reading guide that accompanies The Care We Dream of here. Learn more about Dr. Sharman's other work here.   Would you like to share your response to our conversation? Click here and send us your voice memo.

All things Kintsugi Therapist Collective: https://www.kintsugitherapistcollective.com/offerings In this conversation we hear Hannah and Zena talk about caring ferociously, macho homemaking, living life as a committed spinster, work as a trauma response and domestic embodiment. Hannah McGregor is an academic, podcaster, and author living on the traditional and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She co-hosts the podcast Witch, Please, a critical rereading of the Harry Potter series, and she is the author of A Sentimental Education (WLUP 2022). Hannah's website: https://www.hannahmcgregor.com/ Hannah's favourite duet: The Confrontation (Les Misérables), by Colm Wilkinson and Philip Quast Zena Sharman is a writer, speaker, strategist, and LGBTQ+ health advocate. She's the author of three books, including The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021) and the Lambda Literary award-winning anthology The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016). Zena's website: https://zenasharman.com/ Zena's favourite duet: Stay by Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

I think you are really going to enjoy this one. My reading over the summer holidays was Shayda Kafai's brilliant book ‘Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid' (which I notice in the podcast I call 'Crip Wisdom' - sorry!), and as soon as I finished it I knew I had to ask Shayda to come onto the podcast to discuss her ideas. I asked her who her dream fellow guest would be, and she suggested Zena Sharman, author of The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health. And so this episode was born. And what a delightful, deep and amazing discussion we had. You're going to love it. Do let me know what you think, I hope this episode provokes a lot of discussion and reflection.   Please consider supporting the podcast by visiting www.patreon.com/fromwhatiftowhatnext and becoming a patron.

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep #19 Liberated Care, with Zena Sharman “I think about care as a process, as an ongoing act of weaving — that it is this active thing that we do, that happens in relationships, that happens in communities.” Zena Sharman joins the show to talk casting spells and weaving webs of care beyond institutions. This episode is all about intergenerational solidarity, and queering kinship and care in the everyday. Zena is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate and our conversation goes deep into the radical possibilities for care as an ongoing, consensual process — from grief care to ageing and dying, to gender open parenting, to centring pleasure and disability justice in health care. Show Notes Follow Zena on Twitter Zena's two books: The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health  The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care Photo of Zena for show is by K. Ho Recommendations:  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's books Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and The Future is Disabled Megan Linton's Invisible Institutions podcast Hil Malatino's book Trans Care (the free open access version is available here) Jules Gill-Peterson's article Doctors Who? Radical lessons from the history of DIY transition I didn't mention it during the interview, but this podcast interview The Legend of the Orchi Shed with Guest Eilís Ni Fhlannagáin is another wonderful example of an oral history about trans DIY health care The book Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (second edition) Katie Batza's book Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s Dean Spade's mutual aid course syllabus, which includes Katie Batza's book alongside other health-related titles like Alondra Nelson's book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination and the history of the Young Lords' health organizing, which is also covered in Mia Donovan's Dope is Death podcast and documentary Interrupting Criminalization's brief We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth: Drawing the Connections Between Our Movements Transcript Zena Sharman is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate. She's the author of three books, including The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in the fall of 2021). Zena edited the Lambda Literary award-winning anthology The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care. She's also an engaging speaker who brings her passion for LGBTQ+ health to audiences of health care providers, students and community members at universities and conferences across North America. You can learn more about Zena and her work at https://zenasharman.com/ Music for our show by: Sour Gout The GF Show art by Robin Carrico Thanks for listening!  

Join Elsa and Riya as they discuss excerpts from “The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare” edited by Zena Sharman. Elsa and Riya wanted to bring to light the voices of those in the LGBTQ+ community who have experienced mistreatment by their healthcare providers. By learning about these individual's perspectives, Elsa and Riya tried to empathize and learn how they could go about providing more culturally-competent care. Join the conversation with them by tuning in!

Author, Speaker, and Queer and Trans advocate, Zena (she/her) joins Josie on the podcast today to discuss justice for all and transforming the healthcare system. Zena also talks about her experience coparenting alongside three queer parents, making one family, and deconstructing the unsupportive narrative that is the heteronormative nuclear family. Zena's latest work The Care We Dream Of  was published in 2021. The reading guide can be accessed on Google Docs here, and downloaded in PDF or EPUB here. The Care We Dream Of can be purchased here. Follow Zena on Instagram and check out her website. Previous works by Zena include: The Remedy, which you can purchase here, as well as  Persistence: Always Butch and Femme, available to buy here.

On today's podcast, we're going to talk with the founder of The Pocket Doula, Anna Balagtas, about uplifting queer, and trans-care.  Anna Balagtas (she/siya) is a queer, Pinay full circle birth worker, educator, facilitator, energy worker, and pleasure advocate. Her practice is rooted in the decolonization of birth work, radical QTBIPOC care, and queer reproductive justice, taught to her by king yaa. Anna's deepest joy comes from witnessing her communities thrive through community care, mutual aid, and abolition work.  We talk about how Anna started The Pocket Doula and her journey to decolonized birth work. We also talk about Anna's experience with radicalizing perinatal care for QTBIPOC communities by creating empowering spaces centered on queer reproductive justice.  Content warning: We mention abortion, the upcoming Supreme Court decision on abortion, queerphobia, transphobia, medical trauma, medical racism, death, miscarriage, and loss.  Learn more about the founder of The Pocket Doula, Anna Balagtas, here. Follow Anna, The Pocket Doula, on Facebook and Instagram.  Learn more about Decolonization is for Everyone here. Learn more about Birthing Beyond the Binary by king yaa here. Learn more about Cornerstone Birthwork Trainings here. Learn more about Whole Body Pregnancy here. Learn more about Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings here. Learn more about Gender Affirming Birthwork + All Genders Birth Class by Moss Froom here. Learn more about king yaa here. Learn more about Teaching Resistance by John Mink here. Learn more about The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health by Zena Sharman here.

In SIDE AFFECTS, Hil Malatino opens a conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rate amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. In May 2022, Malatino was joined in conversation by Zena Sharman, author of The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health. This conversation was hosted virtually by White Whale Bookstore of Pittsburgh, PA.Hil Malatino is assistant professor in the departments of women's, gender, and sexuality studies and philosophy at Penn State. Malatino is author of Side Affects; Trans Care; and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience.Zena Sharman is a writer, speaker, strategist, and LGBTQ+ health advocate. Sharman is author of The Care We Dream Of, and editor of The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care. More info: ZenaSharman.com.Topics discussed: trans and queer community, affect, rage, trauma, liberatory health care, liberated futures, family, aging, burnout, carceral systems, collective care work.References in this conversation include:Susan StrykerMaría LugonesJames C. ScottLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaDean SpadeMyrl BeamT FleischmannSins Invalid disability justice primerAurora Levins MoralesEli ClareShayda KafaiAnn CvetkovichA transcript of this episode is available at: z.umn.edu/51222p

Anita turns the mic over to guest host Omisade Burney-Scott to explore the many ways folks are raising kids outside the nuclear family unit. First, Omi talks with her former romantic partner about their evolution from significant other to co-parents. Plus, she meets a woman who is part of a four-person parenting structure and hears from someone who is creating resources for folks in blended families. Meet the guests: Michael Scott, Omisade's coparent and father of Taj. Zena Sharman,  writer, LGBTQ+ health advocate and author of the book “The Care We Dream Of." Coparent to three children. Trina Greene-Brown, founder of Parenting for Liberation. Read the transcript | Review the podcast

We take a bite out of queer and trans affirming healthcare with Asher Wickell (they/he) a family & marriage therapist based in Wichita, KS. We get philosophical in our exploration of what healing looks like in the face of perpetual harm, how the pandemic has unearthed realizations about the flaws in our healthcare systems, and what a future of affirming care could look like when the current system becomes obsolete. Additional resources & references from this episode:  The Care We Dream Of by Zena Sharman– through a series of essays this book offers possibilities for more liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health and healing.  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism– journalist and author Naomi Klein investigates how corporate, governmental and private interests are moved forward in the aftermath of major disasters.  Dean Spade on the Promise of Mutual Aid– an interview with Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (And the Next) “Can therapy solve racism?” – a recent episode on the podcast Code Switch exploring if therapy is a useful tool for addressing the impacts of anti-Blackness.  The Nonlinearity of Healing with Spenta Kandawalla– a recent episode of the Emergent Strategy podcast about centering our material well-being in movement work  For questions, comments or feedback about this episode: lastbite@sgdinstitute.org Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or at sgdinstitute.org To support this podcast and the Institute, visit sgdinstitute.org/givingHost: R.B. Brooks, they/them, director of programs for the Midwest Institute for Sexuality & Gender Diversity Cover art: Adrienne McCormick

The pandemic has brought into focus the urgent need for a public health that serves everyone in the community, including those who have traditionally been marginalized. A new book by Zena Sharman asks what health care could look like if queer folks had access safe, appropriate and compassionate medical care. Zena Sharman is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate. Her new book is called The Care We Dream Of.

Zena Sharman, PhD, is a writer, speaker, strategist, and LGTBQ+ health advocate. She's the editor of the award-winning anthology "The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care" and is currently the Director of Strategy for the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research in British Columbia. 

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For this episode I sat down with the brilliant and luminous Zena Sharman to talk about her work as an LGBTQ+ health advocate (seriously click on that link and look at that website, it is a testimony to femme web design and I am in love). We talk about thinking strategically, changing systems, editing anthologies, … Continue reading Episode 3.20 A Trojan Horse of Radical Values with Zena Sharman

Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer and visual artist originally from the South Shore of Boston. He has been a construction worker, a cook, a carpenter, a union stagehand, a bouncer, a welder, a shop steward, a dishwasher, a truck driver, and a housepainter, among other things, for a paycheck. His writing appears in many publications and anthologies, such as The Kenyon Review, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, and The Rumpus; and recently in the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Remedy–Essays on Queer Health Issues, (ed. Zena Sharman) and Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Speculative Fiction From Transgender Writers, (eds. Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett). The Huffington Post named him as one of “10 Transgender Artists Who Are Changing The Landscape Of Contemporary Art.” His visual art was recently curated in an exhibition called “Intersectionality” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, and hung recently in shows at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, NM, the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco, and at Helltown Workshop in Provincetown, MA. His visual work has been recently published in the journals Faggot Dinosaur and CutBank. A veteran of the original Sister Spit tours, he's performed, lectured, and exhibited art across North America. He has received fellowships from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Lambda Literary Foundation, and RADAR Labs. Cooper Lee has taught writing at the University of Portland, Clark College, Portland State University, and at various Portland-area high schools as a writer-in-residence through Literary Art's program Writers in The Schools. He is a 2017-18 Writer-In-Residence at the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Critical Studies graduate program.

Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer and visual artist originally from the South Shore of Boston. He has been a construction worker, a cook, a carpenter, a union stagehand, a bouncer, a welder, a shop steward, a dishwasher, a truck driver, and a housepainter, among other things, for a paycheck. His writing appears in many publications and anthologies, such as The Kenyon Review, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, and The Rumpus; and recently in the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Remedy–Essays on Queer Health Issues, (ed. Zena Sharman) and Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Speculative Fiction From Transgender Writers, (eds. Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett). The Huffington Post named him as one of “10 Transgender Artists Who Are Changing The Landscape Of Contemporary Art.” His visual art was recently curated in an exhibition called “Intersectionality” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, and hung recently in shows at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, NM, the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco, and at Helltown Workshop in Provincetown, MA. His visual work has been recently published in the journals Faggot Dinosaur and CutBank. A veteran of the original Sister Spit tours, he's performed, lectured, and exhibited art across North America. He has received fellowships from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Lambda Literary Foundation, and RADAR Labs. Cooper Lee has taught writing at the University of Portland, Clark College, Portland State University, and at various Portland-area high schools as a writer-in-residence through Literary Art's program Writers in The Schools. He is a 2017-18 Writer-In-Residence at the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Critical Studies graduate program.

Don't forget: Patreons who support with just $3 per month and above get exclusive weekly bonus content, too. Literally, every pledge sends me into an excited squeal of delight. patreon.com/sgrpodcast Zena Sharman, editor of "The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care," is here talking about queer and trans health issues, community-based care, and oppression within the medical community. We geek out about trauma-informed care and talk about why cis straight men are really suffering inside these systems, too, based on the statistics. What does it look like to have healthcare informed by community, disability justice, racial justice, fat justice, and trauma? Zena has some stories and amazing ideas to get the activist in all of us going. How do we start asking, "Who are you and what's important to you?" instead of assuming what kinds of care and cures someone might want? Change is on the horizon, but we need to start looking at different possibilities that include kinky folks and poly folks and people of color among so many other intersections of oppression. When this happens, our sexual health and our mental health would improve drastically. Ready to dive in? Me too! Follow Sex Gets Real on Twitter and Facebook. It's true. Oh! And Dawn is on Instagram. Resources discussed in this episode Eli Clare's "Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure" Zena's blog post on Queer Interdependence "Living in Liberation: Boundary Setting, Self Care, and Social Change" by Cristien Storm Kelli Dunham's zine, "You Don't Have to Love Your Body to Take Care of It" and PLEASE send her a few bucks if you access this zine. Here's her PayPal to do just that. About Zena Sharman Zena Sharman is a femme force of nature and a passionate advocate for queer and trans health. She has over a decade’s experience in health research, including seven years as the Assistant Director of Canada’s national gender and health research funding institute. Zena co-chairs the board of the Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre, a holistic health care centre for transgender and gender-diverse communities. She served on the board of the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health from 2013-2015. Zena is the editor of the Lambda Literary award-winning anthology The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016). The Remedy brings together her love of writing and stories with her commitment to making the world a healthier and more equitable place. Zena co-edited the Lambda Literary award-nominated anthology, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011), and she's presented on gender, sexuality, and health to audiences across North America. Zena has a PhD in interdisciplinary studies from the University of British Columbia. Her resume also includes party thrower, cabaret host, go-go dancer for a queer punk band, campus radio DJ, and elementary school public speaking champion. Zena is grateful to live and write on the lands of the Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. As a small gesture of thanks for living on their unceded territories, she'll donate half of her royalties from The Remedy to Indigenous-led organizations. Follow Zena on Twitter @zenasharman Listen and subscribe to Sex Gets Real Listen and subscribe on iTunes Check us out on Stitcher Don't forget about I Heart Radio's Spreaker Pop over to Google Play Use the player at the top of this page. Now available on Spotify. Search for "sex gets real". Find the Sex Gets Real channel on IHeartRadio. Hearing from you is the best Contact form: Click here (and it's anonymous)

Just in time for LGBT Pride Month, this episode has us discussing LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction books! We talk about queer Canadians, own voices, the importance of cultural context, and how this is our newest episode ever (in terms of publication dates for books). Plus: Anna and Matthew will be at the American Library Association conference in Chicago this weekend. Tweet at us if you’ll be there and want to say “Hi!”. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi  Books We Read (or tried to) The Lesbian Lexicon by Stevie Anntonym (recommended) Queer Game Studies edited by Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw (Matthew mistakenly called this Queer Gaming) David Bowie Made Me Gay by Darryl W. Bullock (out November 21st, 2017) (recommended) Outlaw Marriages by by Rodger Streitmatter Queers Were Here: Heroes & Icons of Queer Canada edited by Robin Ganev and RJ Gilmour (recommended) Scott Thompson (of The Kids in the Hall) LOOK: Lesbian Organization of Kitchener LOOT: Lesbian Organization of Toronto The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care edited by Zena Sharman (recommended) The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (recommended) The Life and Times of Butch Dykes (series) by by Eloisa Aquino The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker by Éric Liberge and Arnaud Delalande (recommended) My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi (recommended) Goodreads review that suggestions Nagata Kabi is “non-binary and possibly asexual” Cities vol. 1 by Anand Vedawal (recommended) The Prince of los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco  Books We Mentioned On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel Pedro and Me by Judd Winick (that page shows the terrible cover) (recommended) Two or Three Things I Know for Sure and Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature by Dorothy Allison Forward by Abby Wambach Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee (recommended) My Body is Yours by Michael V. Smith (recommended) Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (recommended) Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E. Coyote (recommended) Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh (recommended) Princess Jellyfish (series) by Akiko Higashimura (recommended) DAR (webcomic) by Erika Moen How to be a Guy (series of articles) by Jay Edidin (recommended) Links, Articles, and Things Our list of genres QUILTBAG definition on Wiktionary LGBT Pride Month QZAP: The Queer Zine Archive Project Mass Effect Kaiden Alenko Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian Broad City The Imitation Game Otokonoko: A frustratingly brief WIkipedia article about crossdressing in Japan Questions Do you want a postcard? Email us your address! Will you be at ALA in Chicago? Let us know! Got any recommendations for asexual non-fiction? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the QUILTBAG/LGBTQ+ books we read, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 4th, when we’ll talk about Reading Exhaustion and Reading Slumps (or maybe a super secret surprise). Then come back on July 18th when we’ll be discussing Legal Thrillers!

Live recordings from the Vancouver launch of The Remedy. Part One features readings from Zena Sharman, Ahmed Danny Ramadan, Chase Willier, and Amber Dawn. "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..."