Zena Sharman

“The surest way to get a bunch of queers to do anything is to make a rule nonsensically forbidding us from doing it.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Sexual-patriarchal relational systems overwhelm, from media glorifying sexual connection above other forms of intimacy and interaction, to medical, economic, and legal structures that automatically privilege sexual/domestic/romantic dyadic partnerships and genetic family bonds over other chosen platonic relationships and support systems. Oppressive social structures and micro-aggressive interpersonal interactions constantly grate on us, damaging our health and maybe even pushing us to seek care, but often available formal assistance is part of the same harmful system and populated by the same privileged persons.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care