Call for Submissions: Genderqueer/Trans Healthcare Practitioners
CALLING ALL GENDERVARIANT/GENDERQUEER/AND TRANS HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS!!
The time has come. Jacoby Ballard (trans health educator, herbalist and yoga instructor) and Devynn Emory (trans health educator, healer, massage therapist) are preparing an anthology about the vast and varied approaches to trans healthcare. This collection will include excerpts written only by gendervariant, genderqueer and trans practitioners/providers; we are often written about, but rarely get to represent our own communities, wellbeing, and healthcare. This anthology is a resource for both healthcare providers and the trans and gendervariant community that includes first hand experiences of what its like to work with the community, information to empower trans people about our own bodies, facts and tips on how to get the healthcare you need in a safe environment, and will offer insight to other practitioners about what questions arise in our work with trans and gendervariant people and how we approach or resolve such questions. Our goal is to open up the conversation of trans healthcare to include more than just the medical system, and to integrate other issues that inevitably affect our bodies and wellbeing, such as legal issues, the prison industrial complex, trauma and abuse, and more.
Where you come in:
We need YOU, as a practitioner with experience working with genderqueer/gender non-conforming/trans health to offer your wisdom, facts, tips and experience. We are seeking a more clinical perspective, rather than a personal narrative, although we do wish to hear your struggles and joys. We are in search of acupuncturists, Chinese Medicine practitioners, voice specialists, hormone specialists, yoga instructors, massage therapists, healers, fertility specialists, midwives, surgeons, psychotherapists and the like. If you are trans or genderqueer identified and provide healthcare for these communities, we want YOU! We are interested in topics such as: augmenting the side effects of hormones, treating the physical effects of binding and tucking, trans pregnancy, psychotherapy from a trans-positive and -affirming perspective, treating the effects of abuse and harassment, and more!
please spread widely!
we can’t wait to hear from you!
feel free to inquire with questions and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: AUGUST 15, 2010
contact: transhealthanthology@gmail.com
