5. Re-Thinking Healthcare
Virtual Event
Description
In this timely panel on the perils and possibilities of healthcare, three writers—Zena Sharman, Shayda Kafai, and Anna Quon—examine unique approaches to care and what this might mean for our collective future with moderator Kai Cheng Thom.
Date: May 1, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
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Registration
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Featured Speaker(s)
Anna Quon
Anna Quon, a poet and novelist living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), likes to make paintings and short animated films of her poems. Mixed-race, middle-aged and Mad, Anna has facilitated writing and creative arts workshops for people with lived experience of mental health diagnoses/ psychiatric histories for 15 years. Her first professionally published poetry chapbook, Body Parts, was released in 2021 by Gaspereau Press. Anna’s third novel, Where the Silver River Ends, which creates a trilogy with her first two unrelated stories, Migration Songs and Low, will be released in March 2022.
Shayda Kafai
Dr. Shayda Kafai (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Ethnic and Women’s Studies Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a queer, disabled, Mad femme of color, she commits to practicing the many ways we can reclaim our bodyminds from systems of oppression. To support this work as an educator-scholar, Shayda applies disability justice and collective care practices in the spaces she cultivates. Her latest book is Crip Kinship, out now with Arsenal Pulp Press.
Zena Sharman
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.
Kai Cheng Thom
Kai Cheng Thom is the writer of five award-winning books in various genres. Based in Toronto/tkaronto, Kai Cheng is a widely known advocate for transformative social change and the winner of multiple literary awards, including the Stonewall Honor Book Award and the Publishing Triangle Award.
