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
alternative medicine
queer health
anti-capitalism
medicine
medical industry
medical system
medical technology
medical treatments
COVID-19
COVID-19 pandemic
photographs
journal
mixed media

Asian American Feminist Antibodies (care in the time of coronavirus)

Title reads "Asian American Feminist Antibodies {care in the time of coronavirus}. There is a cartoon drawing of multiple people with various PPE on. the backdrop is different geometric shapes.
With the COVID-19 pandemic neither behind us or solely ahead of us, this zine
offers a way to make meaning of the coronavirus crisis through long-standing
practices of care that come out of Asian American histories and politics. We bring
together first-hand accounts and analyses from our communities, including
health and service workers and caregivers on the frontlines, students, people
living with chronic illness, journalists, and organizers. Together, this collection of
stories, essays, and artwork shows how we experience, resist, and grapple with
a viral outbreak that has been racialized as Asian, is spoken of in the language of
contagion and invasion, and reveals the places where our collective social safety
net is particularly threadbare.
This moment of precarity and disaster reminds us that we cannot rely on the state
for our wellbeing. The legacies of imperialism, capitalism, and patriarchy undergird
forms of violence that unevenly expose many in our communities to further risk,
rendering people disposable.
Yet, in this moment, we also see how revolutionary love and care can reshape our
world. We see the urgency, necessity, and radical possibilities of decarceration,
language justice, healthcare and housing access, economic redistribution, and
mutual aid. Our dreams, visions, and desires for an alternative world and future can
be realized. We are made of communities with deep collective knowledge on how
to care for each other and the earth around us. Together, we can survive and build
interdependent communities of resistance.
With love,
Salonee Bhaman
Rachel Kuo
Matilda Sabal
Vivian Shaw
Tiffany Diane Tso
poetry
COVID-19 pandemic
feminism
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