Victoria Book Prizes

“Maleea Acker (at left) joins four other writers shortlisted this year for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Three writers are up for the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize. Read more here.FULL STORY

 

 

Queer, trans & incendiary

November 17th, 2016

sharman-zena-book-jacketEditor Zena Sharman’s “moving and incendiary” LGBTQ anthology, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care (Arsenal 2016) has won the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Anthologies at a ceremony in New York on June 12, 2017.

This anthology presents diverse, true stories from queer and trans people about their health-care experiences and challenges. From gay men with HIV recalling systemic resistance, to a lesbian couple dealing with the experience of cancer, and young trans people who struggle to find health-care providers who treat them with dignity and respect, the stories and essays (from health-care providers and activists) explore and examine the challenges and politics of LGBTQ health issues in the shadow of the new post-truth Trump era. Contributors (more tinclude Amber Dawn, Sinclair Sexsmith, Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco, Cooper Lee Bombardier, Kara Sievewright and Vivek Shraya.

Zena Sharman co-chairs the board of the Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre, a holistic health care centre for transgender and gender-diverse communities, located on Kingsway in Vancouver. She served on the board of the Canadian Professional Association for Transgender Health from 2013-2015. For seven years she was the Assistant Director of Canada’s national gender and health research funding institute.

With a Ph.D in interdisciplinary studies from UBC, previously Zena Sharman co-edited the Lambda Literary award-nominated anthology, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011), and she’s presented on gender, sexuality, and health to audiences across North America. She has also been a cabaret host, a go-go dancer for a queer punk band and a campus radio DJ. Half of her royalties from The Remedy will go to Indigenous-led organizations.

 

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