The Remedy 

Queer and Trans Voices on LGBTQ+ Health and Healthcare

Book cover titled 'The Remedy,' edited by Zena Sharman, features a botanical illustration of a flowering plant with leafy stems. The cover highlights themes of queerness, trans voices, health, and healthcare.

Published by Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016

To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations.

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 features 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 equitable health care for all.

Featured contributors include Amber Dawn, Keiko Lane, and Vivek Shraya.

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Gold medallion featuring Lambda Literary Awards logo with a stylized lambda symbol, surrounded by laurel branches and a book.

The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on LGBTQ+ Health and Health Care was selected as winner of the Lambda Literary Award for best anthology, 2017. 

“A much-needed anthology that shares stories from patients and providers across the healthcare field…The Remedy is part of a growing effort within queer and trans communities to lead the long-lasting and healthy lives that we deserve.”

—Lambda Literary

Praise for The Remedy

“This anthology on health care for queer and transgender people is as much an archive of experience as it is a call to action. . .It's a must-read for health care professionals and students going into the field, those navigating the system or supporting others through it, and anyone interested in honest, informed writing on the subject.”

—Publishers Weekly

“An enlightening collection of essays detailing many of these systemic problems, and a call to action on issues that should be understood by all.”

—National Post ("Best Books of the Year")

“The Remedy is a bandage lovingly placed on the open wounds of every LGBTQAI person afraid of going to a doctor. This book does not just ask doctors to follow the oath of ‘first do no harm’; it also demands medical practitioners respect, understand, and affirm our queer lives, bodies, and families. The Remedy is the collection of healing and solidarity queers desperately need.”

—Sassafras Patterdale, author of Lost Boi

“This anthology demonstrates just how important it is for queer and trans people to tell their stories, and for the health care community to listen. It's a must-read for doctors, nurses, therapists, and others who care for queer and trans patients, and for students training to become the next generation of health care providers.”

—Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, and editor of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves