(Im)patient Narratives: Peer-to-Peer Health Information Transfer in the LGBTQ+ Community via Zines from the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
ISBN: 978-1-83909-341-8, eISBN: 978-1-83909-340-1
Publication date: 30 November 2020
Abstract
This project examines how queer and trans zines have complicated the notion of traditional patient narratives and provides insight into the issues that LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning) populations face when accessing healthcare information and resources. Historically, information about queer and trans identities has been suppressed in the United States, reflecting dominant social values that pathologize queer identities. Using health-related zines housed at the Queer Zine Archive Project as a case study, this project investigates how queer and trans zines about healthcare have resisted these homophobic and transphobic ideologies. The analysis reveals that queer and trans zinesters use their feelings of impatience with the medical industry to fuel communal solutions to accessing and providing health care information.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
The authors appreciate the support of this research provided by the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee through their internal Research and Creative Activities Support Award (2019). We also appreciate the support of Milo Miller and Chris Wilde, and the contribution of the zinesters to this project. We acknowledge any errors as our own.
Citation
Latham, J.M. and Cooke, S. (2020), "(Im)patient Narratives: Peer-to-Peer Health Information Transfer in the LGBTQ+ Community via Zines from the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)", Jean, B.S., Jindal, G., Liao, Y. and Jaeger, P.T. (Ed.) Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 47), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 241-261. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020200000047012
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