The Remedy Quotes

“The surest way to get a bunch of queers to do anything is to make a rule nonsensically forbidding us from doing it.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Sexual-patriarchal relational systems overwhelm, from media glorifying sexual connection above other forms of intimacy and interaction, to medical, economic, and legal structures that automatically privilege sexual/domestic/romantic dyadic partnerships and genetic family bonds over other chosen platonic relationships and support systems. Oppressive social structures and micro-aggressive interpersonal interactions constantly grate on us, damaging our health and maybe even pushing us to seek care, but often available formal assistance is part of the same harmful system and populated by the same privileged persons.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Trans folks are often expected to embrace a narrative that makes cis people comfortable--something simple and linear that upholds their binary understanding of gender transition.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Let me stress this point: I did my own research. The doctors did not help. The information I found was from personal sources telling their own stories and sharing what they found. I don’t love the idea of crowdsourcing my own health and wellness, getting solutions to medical problems on Tumblr, but with a body that’s an unknown in the medical system, what else was I supposed to do?”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Your body doesn't understand money--if it did,
it would sure as hell expect to get paid
for all this sweat and drudgery.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care