HLP Health - Physical

Zines about physical health, including alternative healing, medicine, drugs, diseases, yoga, and the pharmaceutical and medical industries. Zines about body image, fat oppression, and fat acceptance should be filed under BOD Body Politics.

Sick Futurity

The title of the zine, "Sick Futurity", is written in a pink font set against a a photograph of the Queer Tarot Guidebook (by Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham) set out on a table with various diabetes measurement devices and notes. Below the photograph, the names of the authors, Lyndsey Beutin & Cal Biruk are written in the same pink font on a white background, which frames the photo.
A zine about rethinking concepts around measuring personal health and divorcing that from capitalism and cisheteronormativity, centered around diabetes, the capitalization of diabetes management, COVID-19 and the looming problem of "surveillance for health", all from queer perspectives.

Zine includes photo examples, journal notes, exercises and activities for readers who are looking to explore alternative methods of health measurement that are less rigid than numbers, which are often used to shame and blame individuals living with diabetes and other medical conditions.
diabetes
queer health
anti-capitalism
medicine
medical industry
medical system
medical technology
medical treatments
COVID-19
COVID-19 pandemic
photographs
diaries
mixed media
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