In order to further the mission of Chronic Sex, we aim to set up educational opportunities for healthcare providers, payers, and systems to learn more about how sex and sexuality play with chronic illness and disability.
While this is currently in development, ideas include:
- webinars
- in-person education & training
- focus group pool
- possible research opportunities
Since these are currently in development, please email Grayson here if you’d like to collaborate and partake in the above.
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Resources
Other Pages Here of Interest
- Ableism
- Abuse & Violence
- Bias, Allyship, and More
- Oppressive Language
- Masturbation
- Self-esteem & Body Image
- Self-love & Self-care
- LGBTQ+
- Dating & Relationships
- Sex and Disability, Illness, and Pain
- Chronic Illness & Intimate Relationships – An Interview with Dr. Logan Levkoff
- Perimenopause and Chronic Illness
- RA Officially Linked to Sexual Issues
- Sex Toys
- Sexual Dysfunction in Women & Other Vagina Owners
- Sexual Side Effects of Medicine
- The Best Sexual Positions for People with Limited Mobility
- Top 10 Symptoms You May Have If You Have Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Discussing Sex with Doctors
- Pregnancy, Fertility, and Parenting
Creating an Inclusive Clinic Space
General
- Helpful Attitude, Signs and More (pdf)
- How Doctors Can Stop Shutting Marginalized Groups Out Of The Health-Care System
LGBTQ+
- Affirmative Services for Transgender and Gender Diverse People – Best Practices for Frontline Health Care Staff (y en espanol)
- Affirming Primary Care for Intersex People
- Creating a Healthcare Practice Welcoming to LGBT Seniors
- Creating A Welcoming Clinical Environment for LGBT Patients (pdf)
- Creating a Welcoming and Safe Environment for LGBT People and Families (pdf slides)
- Do Ask, Do Tell: A Toolkit for Collecting Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Clinical Settings
- Focus on Forms and Policy: Creating an Inclusive Environment for LGBT Patients
- Gender identity & pronoun use: A guide for pediatric health care professionals
- Gender Inclusive Terms for Healthcare Workers for Pregnancy, Birth, and Sexual Health
- Glosario de términos LGBT para equipos de atención a la salud
- Healthcare Bill of Rights
- If You Have It, Check It: Overcoming Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening with Patients on the Female-to-Male Transgender Spectrum
- LGBTQIA+ Glossary of Terms for Health Care Teams
- Making Primary Care Trans-Friendly
- Making Your Clinic Welcoming to LGBTQ Patients
- Neurodiversity and gender-diverse youth: an affirming approach to care
- Preguntas Sobre Orientación Sexual E Identidad De Género
- Providing Affirmative Care for Patients with Non-binary Gender Identities
- Providing Inclusive Services and Care for LGBT People: A Guide for Health Care Staff
- Providing safe, affirming and evidence-based care for transgender persons: The Basics & Part 2
- Ready, Set, Go! Guidelines and Tips For Collecting Patient Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)
- Recruiting, Training, and Retaining LGBTQ-Proficient Clinical Providers: A Workforce Development Toolkit
- SO/GI Data Collection Demonstration Videos
- Ten Strategies for Creating Inclusive Health Care Environments for LGBTQIA+ People
- Transgender Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships
Continuing Education, Learning Modules, and Webinars
Medical Education
Addressing Bias
- Addressing Implicit and Unconscious Bias
- Achieving Health Equity for LGBTQIA People
- Beliefs, Bias, and Bumpers: Implicit and Explicit Roadblocks to Trans and LGBQ+ Welcoming Services
- Implicit and Provider Bias
Social Determinants of Health
- What Are Social Determinants of Health?
- Stanford Medcast: COVID-19 Mini-Series - Social Determinants of Health
- Social Determinants of Health: Improve Health Outcomes Beyond the Clinic Walls
- Beyond Immutable Barriers: Structural Competency and Reproductive Health
- The Role of Physicians in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Health Equity
- Basics of Health Equity
- Prioritizing Equity: Building Alliance & Sharing Power to Achieve Health Equity
- Health Disparities, Stigma and Terminology
- Prioritizing Equity: Research and Data for Health Equity
- Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Care and Medicine
- Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Smaller Practices
- Ethics Talk: Equal Justice Under Law and Health Equity
- Health Equity, Cuban Style
- Piloting and Scaling a Good Health Equity Evidence Base From Big Data
- How Should Health Professionalism Be Redefined to Address Health Equity?
- N-21: Health Equity Education—Presentation and Conversation With Heather McGhee
- Advancing Health Equity by Avoiding Judgmentalism and Contextualizing Care
- How Should Physicians and Pharmacists Collaborate to Motivate Health Equity in Underserved Communities?
- How Should Clinicians Respond to Language Barriers That Exacerbate Health Inequity?
- The Moral Determinants of Health
- Disparities Research, Disparities Researchers, and Health Equity
- Collecting Patient Data: Improving Health Equity in Your Practice
- Beyond Immutable Barriers: Structural Competency and Reproductive Health
- Prioritizing Equity: Getting to Justice in Education
COVID-19
- COVID-19 and Health Justice
- Coronavirus and Health Inequities
- Ethics Talk: Antiracism, Health Equity, and a Post-COVID Future
- Ethics Talk: COVID Dermatologic Disparities Go More Than Skin Deep
- Excess Deaths From COVID-19, Community Bereavement, and Restorative Justice for Communities of Color
- Failing Another National Stress Test on Health Disparities
- Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for a Structurally Competent Health Care System
- Stanford Medcast: COVID-19 Mini-Series - Social Determinants of Health
Indigenous Folks
Undocumented Folks
Race, Ethnicity, and Color
- Association of Race With Bariatric Surgery Outcomes
- Avoiding Racial Essentialism in Medical Science Curricula
- Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare
- Hearing Aid Prevalence and Factors Related to Use Among Older Hispanic/Latino Adults
- Historical Foundations of Racism in Medicine: An Introduction
- Racial Differences in Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
- Racial Equity in Crisis Standards of Care—Reassuring Data or Reason for Concern?
- Recalibrating the Use of Race in Medical Research
LGBTQ+ Care
Important Information
- Working With Patients Who Are Transgender
- LGBTQ Health, Diversity & Inclusion CME Course
- Affirming Care for People with Intersex Traits
- What Providers Need to Know about Trans Legal Issues
- Reproductive Care and Obstetrics Beyond the Binary
- Alternative Sexualities in Healthcare: Providing Affirming Care to Patients who Engage in Kink, BDSM, Fetish, Swinging, Ethical Non-Monogamy, Polyamory, and Open Arrangements
- Insurance Considerations for Navigating Gender-affirming Care
- Building Your Family: LGBTQ Reproductive Options
- Transgender Legal Services and Medical-Legal Partnerships
- Detransition, Retransition: What Providers Need to Know
- If You Have It, Check It: Overcoming Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening with Patients on the Female-to-Male Transgender Spectrum
- Calidad de cuidado para lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transgéneros y transexuales: Eliminando la invisibilidad y las disparidades en salud
- Creating a Community Advisory Board
Behavioral and Mental Healthcare
- Behavioral Health Care for LGBTQIA+ People
- Behavioral Health Care for LGBTQIA+ Patients during COVID-19
- Behavioral Health Care Outside the Binary
- Mental Health and Substance Use Among Gay, Bisexual and MSM
- Mental Health for Transgender and Gender-diverse People
- Providing Mental Health Assessments for Gender Affirming Surgery Referral Letters
- Behavioral Health Assessments and Referral for Gender-Affirming Surgery
- Assessment and Care for Transgender Clients in the Setting of Severe Mental Illness or Trauma
Chronic Illness and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
- Addressing Obesity, Feeding and Eating Disorders, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder among LGBTQ Youth
- Considerations for Heart Health of LGBT Identified Patients
- Diabetes, Heart Disease, and LGBTQIA+ Populations
- Health Disparities, Stigma and Terminology
- LGBTQIA+ Patients and Social Determinants of Health Screening and Documentation
- LGBT Health Disparities & Hypertension Control Opportunities with the American Heart Association
- Motivational Interviewing to Improve Chronic Illness Management in Marginalized Populations
- Social Determinants of Health for LGBTQIA+ People – Part 1 & Part 2
- Understanding and Addressing the Social Determinants of Health for Black LGBTQ People: An Example of the Way Forward for Health Centers
- Why Weight? Improving the health of LGBTQIA+ patients by reducing weight stigma
General Healthcare
- Foundations of LGBTQIA+ Health, Part 1
- Foundations of LGBTQIA+ Health, Part 2: For Clinicians
- Foundations of LGBTQIA+ Health, Part 2: For Non-Clinical Staff
- Foundations of LGBTQIA+ Health, Part 2: For Administrators
- Caring for Intersex Patients at Health Centers
- Affirming Care for People with Intersex Traits
- Healthcare for Transgender and Gender Diverse People
- Trauma Informed Care for LGBTQIA+ People
- Eating Disorders and Body Dissatisfaction
- Primary Care and Preventative Health Needs for Transgender and Non-Binary People
- Creating an Inclusive and Affirming Environment for Transgender and Gender-diverse Patients
- Care for LGBTQIA+ People of Color
- Primary and Preventative Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Patients
- Physical Therapy and Gender Affirmation
- Providing Quality Care to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients: An Introduction for Staff Training
- Affirming LGBT People through Effective Communication
Collecting Data
- Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data
- Collecting Gender Identity Data in EHRs
- Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SO/GI) Data In Electronic Health Records
Transition-Related Care
- Gender-Affirmative Health Care
- Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy: Estrogen, Anti-Androgens, and Progesterone
- Non-Medical Gender Affirmation
- Feminizing Gender-Affirming Surgeries
- Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy: Testosterone
- Developmental Approaches to Care for Transgender and Gender-diverse Youth and Adolescents
- Multidisciplinary Approaches to Supporting Whole Person Gender Affirming Perioperative Health and Care
Sexual Health
- ACCELERATE PrEP for HIV Training Modules
- PrEP for Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) People
- Pharmacy and Finance for PrEP
- Sexual Health for Transgender and Gender-Diverse People
- STI Prevention and Treatment
- Taking a Sexual History for Transgender and Gender-Diverse People
- Taking an Affirming Sexual History
- Sexual Health among Transgender People
Oral Health
- Strengthening LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Dental Education
- The Equality Act Toolkit for the Oral Health Community
- How to Support LGBTQIA+ People Right NOW
- LGBTQIA+ Health
Intersections
- Centering Safety: Partnering with Black Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Communities to Promote Wellness
- HIV & Diabetes
- Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ communities
- Meeting at the Crossroads of HIV & Aging
- Neurodiversity and the Gender-diverse Experience
- Promoting Health Care Access to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Farmworkers
- Suicide in the LGBTQ Community: Understanding Why and Best Practices for Health Centers
Aging
- Healthcare for LGBTQIA+ Older Adults
- Older LGBTQIA+ Adults and Sexual Health
- Housing and Older LGBTQIA+ Adults – Part 1 & Part 2
- Meeting at the Crossroads of HIV & Aging
- LGBT Aging 101: What You Need To Know About Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Older Adults and Caregivers
Youth
- Addressing Obesity, Feeding and Eating Disorders, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder among LGBTQ Youth
- Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Care for Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents
- Puberty Blockers and Hormone Therapy for Gender Diverse Youth and Adolescents
- Healthcare for LGBTQIA+ Youth
- Supporting LGBTQIA+ Youth Who Have Experienced Trafficking
- Developmental Approaches to Care for Transgender and Gender-diverse Youth and Adolescents
- Stopping It Where It Starts: Disrupting the LGBTQ Polyvictimization Pathway in Childhood
Educational Panels
- Healthcare Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-binary People of Color Panel
- Emerging Topics in Trans Medicine Expert Panel
- Healthcare Experiences of Transgender and Gender-diverse Youth Community Panel
- Intersex Healthcare Experiences Panel
Reproductive Health
- Beyond Immutable Barriers: Structural Competency and Reproductive Health
- Building Your Family: LGBTQ Reproductive Options
- Reproductive Care and Obstetrics Beyond the Binary
Rural vs Urban
Sexual Health & Reproductive Care
The Basics
- Answer: Sex ed, honestly
- Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
- Pre-and-Post Exposure Prophylaxis (videos)
- Scarleteen
- Sex Ed Library
Specific Resources
General
LGBTQ+
- Addressing HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections among LGBTQ People: A Primer for Health Centers
- Recognizing and Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Relationships of LGBTQ People: A Primer for Health Centers
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questions: Information for Patients
- Transgender Women and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know
- Compendium of Sexual & Reproductive Health Resources for Healthcare Providers (pdf)
- Recommendations for Providing Quality Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinical Services, 2020
Sexual Health History
- Sexual Health and Older LGBTQIA+ Adults
- Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s Guide
- Sexual Health and Your Patients: Pocket Cards
- Sexual Health in Primary Care (pdf slides)
- Sexual Health Questions to Ask All Patients
- Taking Routine Histories of Sexual Health: A System-Wide Approach for Health Centers (pdf)
- Taking a Sexual Assessment for Older Adults
- Why, When and How To Take A Sexual History
- SIECUS Guide to Taking a Sexual History (pdf)
Reproductive Care
Training Modules
Disability/Illness
The Basics
- Accessibility Requirements
- What is ableism?
General Disability + Illness
- A Comedy of Errors: When Doctors Doubt Their Patients
- To The Emergency Room Doctor Who Dismissed Me as a Drug Seeker
Sex and Disability
- Asexual Disabled People Exist, But Don’t Make Assumptions About Us
- Four Things Healthcare Providers Need to Know About Sexuality and Disability
- Let's Talk About Sex…and Disability Baby!
- Righting misrepresentation: Folx with disabilities can be romantic, sexual partners
Specific to Healthcare
Sexual Function
- ACOG Guideline on Sexual Dysfunction in Women
- How Chronic Illness Can Affect Sexual Function (AASECT)
- Men's Health Checklist - American Urological Association (pdf download)
- Real Talk: Improving Quality of Sexual Health Care for Patients with Disabilities
- Sexual Dysfunction in the Female Patient (e-module)
Specific Conditions
Autism
- Healthcare & Autism Toolkit (patients)
- Healthcare & Autism Toolkit (providers)
- How Doctors’ Offices—and Queer Culture—Are Failing Autistic LGBTQ People
Eating Disorders
Neurodivergence
Queer Folks
The Basics
- Anti-Queermisia
- 7 Ridiculous Things NOT to Say to Bisexual Folks
- 8 Ways Allies Can Continue to Show Up For the Queer Community
- Why the Idea That Islam Promotes Intolerance of the LGBTQIA+ Community Is a Lie
- Why We Need More Queer And Trans Therapists Of Color
Language
- GLAAD Media Reference Guide – Terms To Avoid
- Let’s Stop Telling LGBT People To ‘Ignore’ Everyday Homophobia
- Stop Saying “That’s So Gay!”: 6 Types of Microaggressions That Harm LGBTQ People
- Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth is Violence Prevention (pdf)
- Yes, I’m in a same-sex relationship. But please don’t call me a lesbian.
Specific to Healthcare
- Addressing Opioid Use Disorder among LGBTQ Populations
- Asking Patients Questions about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Clinical Settings A Study in Four Health Centers (PDF)
- Best Practices for Asking Questions to Identify Transgender and Other Gender Minority Respondents on Population-Based Surveys (PDF)
- Diabetes Prevention and Management for LGBTQ People
- Gender Inclusive Terms for Healthcare Workers for Pregnancy, Birth, and Sexual Health
- GLMA Guidelines For Care Of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients
- Healthcare Bill of Rights
- LGBTQ Youth and Sexual Abuse: Information for Mental Health Professionals
- Learning to Address Implicit Bias Towards LGBTQ Patients: Case Scenarios
- Making Your Clinic Welcoming to LGBTQ Patients
- SAGE: Advocacy and Services for LGBT Elders
- Suicide Risk and Prevention for LGBTQ Patients
- The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding
Transgender Folks
The Basics
Allyship
- Anti-Transmisia - AKA fighting anti-trans sentiments
- 4 Things Cis Folk Are Clueless About Trans Folk
- 7 Microaggressions Trans People Face in Health and Mental Healthcare Settings
- 10 Misconceptions Every Trans Ally Needs to Understand
- A Guide to Social Work Advocacy for Transgender Adolescents and Young Adults (PDF)
- A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni
- Beyond the binary: Yes, nonbinary femmes exist
- I have a Transgender Client…Now What? (pdf)
- “Ma’am” and “Sir” in a Transgender World: Part One, Two, and Three
- PFLAG Transgender Reading List for Adults
- Pronoun Round Etiquette: How to Create Spaces That are More Inclusive
- So How Does Someone Know if They’re Transgender
- Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth is Violence Prevention (pdf)
- The Genderbread Person
Care
- Gender Neutral Body Map (pdf)
- The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (PDF) from the National Center for Transgender Equality
- Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
- Transgender Surgery—Not the Benchmark for Gender Marker Determination
- Why We Need More Queer And Trans Therapists Of Color
Language
- 5 accidentally transphobic phrases allies use — and what to say instead
- 9 problematic phrases you may not have realized are transphobic
- Terms and Phrases to Avoid (PDF)
- Trans Language Primer
- What Constitutes Transphobic and Cisnormative Bullying and Harassment (PDF)
- Why the words we use matter when describing anti-trans activists
PS: Here are some resources on how to use gender-inclusive language around reproductive health
- 8 Gender Neutral Birth Terms and How to Use Them
- Gender Inclusive Language (PDF)
- Gender Inclusive Terms for Healthcare Workers for Pregnancy, Birth, and Sexual Health
- Gender Inclusive Terms for Sexual Health, Pregnancy, and Birth
Specific to Healthcare
Issues
- Acceptance Is Not Enough: Why Cultural Competency Matters in LGBTQ+ Health Care
- Affirming Care for Transgender Older Adults (podcast)
- Barriers to Gender Transition-Related Healthcare: Identifying Underserved Transgender Adults in Massachusetts
- 'Being transgender is not a medical condition': The meaning of trans broken arm syndrome
- Beliefs, Bias, and Bumpers: Implicit and Explicit Roadblocks to Trans and LGBQ+ Welcoming Services
- Crazy Trans Woman Syndrome
- Finding Insurance for Transgender-Related Healthcare
- For the Transgender Community, Accessible Health Care Can Be Life-Changing
- Gender Confirmation Surgery and Terminology in Transgender Health
- LGBTQ Youth and Sexual Abuse: Information for Mental Health Professionals
- Learning to Address Implicit Bias Towards LGBTQ Patients: Case Scenarios
- Non-Binary Transition
- Suicide Risk and Prevention for LGBTQ Patients
- The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding
Standards
- 8 Tips for Making Pelvic Exams Easier for Men of Trans Experience
- A Variety of Perspectives on the Standards of Care for Transgender People
- Addressing Opioid Use Disorder among LGBTQ Populations
- ALGBTIC Competencies for Counseling Transgender Clients (PDF)
- Asking Patients Questions about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Clinical Settings A Study in Four Health Centers (PDF)
- Best Practices for Asking Questions to Identify Transgender and Other Gender Minority Respondents on Population-Based Surveys (PDF)
- Diabetes Prevention and Management for LGBTQ People
- Gender Inclusive Terms for Healthcare Workers for Pregnancy, Birth, and Sexual Health
- GLMA Guidelines For Care Of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients
- Guidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People from UCSF
- Healthcare Bill of Rights
- Making Primary Care Trans-Friendly
- Making Your Clinic Welcoming to LGBTQ Patients
- Medicare and Osteoporosis Screening for Transgender People
- Providing safe, affirming and evidence-based care for transgender persons: The Basics & Part 2
Organizations & Resources
Sexism
- 6 Ways Gender Stereotypes Make Mental Illness Invisible in Men
- Invisible: How young women with serious health issues navigate work, relationships, and the pressure to seem just fine by Michelle Lent Hirsch
- Misdiagnosed: One Woman's Tour of--And Escape From--Healthcareland by Jody Berger
- Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman
- Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Race, Ethnicity, and Color
General
- Anti-Racism - AKA how can you fight racism
- 6 Ways Well-Intentioned People Whitesplain Racism (And Why They Need to Stop)
- 7 Ridiculous Things Not to Say to Mixed Race People
- 7 Ways Non-Black POC Perpetuate Anti-Blackness in their Communities
- 8 Things White People Really Need to Understand About Race
- 10 Simple Ways White People Can Step Up to Fight Everyday Racism
- Does Living With Racism Cause Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
- Study Reveals Racial and Demographic Disparities in Clinical Trials
Specific to Healthcare
- Abortion's Racial Gap
- Communities Of Color Struggling But Ignored In The Opioid Crisis
- Decolonising dermatology: why black and brown skin need better treatment
- Health care AI has the same racial and gender biases as its trainers
- Racism and discrimination in health care: Providers and patients
- Racism as a Comorbidity - Urban Studies Institute
- Racial inequality even affects how long we wait for the doctor
- Systemic Racism Takes a Toll on BIPOC Mental Health
- The Impact of Race and Racism on Eating Disorders
- Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life
Training
- Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability, and Meaningful Change in Healthcare
Resources
Mental Health
- 13 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Cope
- 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country
- Association of Black Psychologists Directory
- Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
- Inclusive Therapists
- Innopsych
- LGBTQ Psychotherapists of Color Directory
- Mental Health Resources for and By People of Color
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
- Self Care For People of Color After Psychological Trauma
- Strategies for Practicing Self-Care from Racial Battle Fatigue
- Therapy for Black Girls
- Therapy for Black Men
Black People
The Basics
- Anti-Racism
- Black vs. African-American: The complex conversation Black Americans are having about identity #ForTheCulture
- Not all black people are African American. Here's the difference.
- Yes, There’s a Difference Between ‘BIPOC’ and ‘POC’ — Here’s Why It Matters
- Black, Disabled and at Risk: The Overlooked Problem of Police Violence Against Americans with Disabilities
- Gene Editing Cannot Be Separated From The Violent History Of Eugenics And Medical Racism
- How to be an ally for Black lives
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
- Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray: the toll of police violence on disabled Americans
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Body Positivity Movement Both Takes From and Erases Fat Black Women
Specific to Healthcare
- Birthing black women should not have to save their own lives
- Black Americans don’t trust our healthcare system — here's why
- Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
- Black newborns are less likely to die in Black doctors' care
- Black patients may do better at hospitals with more racial diversity
- How we fail black patients in pain
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
- Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy a Degruy
- Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans
- Racism has a toxic effect: Study may explain how racial discrimination raises the risks of disease among African Americans
- The Discrimination Black Americans Face When It Comes to Pain Management
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- This is What it's Like to Navigate Healthcare While Black
- Trauma From Slavery Can Actually Be Passed Down Through Your Genes
- Watch: Combating Racism and Place-ism in Medicine | J. Nwando Olayiwola
- 'You are not listening to me': Black women on pain and implicit bias in medicine
Mental Health
Resources
Hispanic, Latinx, and Chicano People
The Basics
- 6 Harmful Stereotypes About Latin Americans
- Ethnicity and Health in America Series: Racism Related Stress in the Latina/o American Community
- Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez
- Most Latinos Now Say It’s Gotten Worse For Them In The U.S.
- Why Understanding Colorism Within the Latino Community Is So important
Specific to Healthcare
- 3 Reasons Why We Opened a Hispanic Clinic
- Caring for Latinos requires more than knowing Spanish
- Why Health Care Is Different If You're Black, Latino Or Poor
- Why Many Latinos Dread Going to the Doctor
Mental Health
- 9 Mental Health Resources for the LatinX Community
- Mental Illness is not a “White Person Problem”: 4 Reasons Mental Illness is Ignored in the Latinx Community, and Why That Needs to End
- The Mental Effects of Racism on the Latinx Community
- Undoing the Silence: 5 Myths that Uphold Mental Health Stigmas in Latinx Communities
Resources
Asians/Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI)
The Basics
- Anti-Racism
- 5 Ways ‘Asian Woman Fetishes’ Put Asian Women in Serious Danger
- America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens
- Filipino Public Health Notice
- 'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks
- We Need To Talk About Anti-Asian Hate by The Try Guys
Specific to Healthcare
- Asian Americans' Reports of Their Health Care Experiences
- Doctors and Diversity: Improving Health Care for Asian Americans
- How 3 AAPI Doctors Are Providing Culturally Sensitive Care
- Racial Discrimination and Health Among Asian Americans: Evidence, Assessment, and Directions for Future Research
Mental Health
- 17 Mental Health Resources For Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- My low-level anxiety about being Asian in America has morphed into fear
Resources
Indigenous Peoples
The Basics
- Anti-Racism
- 5 Things To Do Today to Combat Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples
- How do I decolonize my curriculum and pedagogical practices in meaningful and respectful ways?
- Indigenous Lives and Disability Justice
- Mass Shootings Are Connected to America’s Legacy of Anti-Indigenous Violence
- There is no DNA test to prove you're Native American
- What is the significance of acknowledging the Indigenous land we stand on?
Food Sovereignty
- 5 articles you should read about Indigenous food sovereignty
- 28 Organizations Promoting Indigenous Food Sovereignty
- How Native Americans Are Fighting a Food Crisis
- Reclaiming the Right to Healthy Food
- Why Food Sovereignty Is A Human Right
COVID-19
- COVID-19 data on Native Americans is ‘a national disgrace.’ This scientist is fighting to be counted
- How Indigenous Communities Are Battling Coronavirus Alone
- The erasure of Indigenous people in U.S. COVID-19 data
Specific to Healthcare
Immigrants
The Basics
- 5 Ways to Support Undocumented Folks
- 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Being an Immigrant
- Mental Illness a Barrier to U.S. Immigration
- Undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes each year — and have been for 25 years
- Undocumented immigrants quietly pay billions into Social Security and receive no benefits
Specific to Healthcare
- Immigrants use less healthcare than people born in U.S.
- Providing Health Care to Latino Immigrants: Community-Based Efforts in the Rural Midwest
- Study finds immigrants use fewer U.S. healthcare resources
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
- Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Getting Needed Mental Health Care, Report Finds
Ethical Non-monogamy & Polyamory
Note: While I’ve shared some resources that use the shorthand ‘poly,’ Polynesian folks also use that shorthand and have asked for the community to use PolyAm versus poly to help them connect with their community.
The Basics
Resources
- Polyamory-Friendly Professionals Directory
- What healthcare professionals need to know about poly and kink
Additional resources here.
Abuse & Trafficking
- Gender-Based Violence Against Women With Disabilities
- Human Sex Trafficking Survivors Need Better Trained Doctors
- Intersectionality & Men’s Violence Against Women of Color
- Sexual Violence, Elder Abuse, and Sexuality of Transgender Adults Age 50+: Results of Three Surveys (pdf)
- Stopping It Where It Starts: Disrupting the LGBTQ Polyvictimization Pathway in Childhood
- The Intersection of Gender Identity and Violence: Victimization Experienced by Transgender College Students
Fatmisia & Sizism
The Basics
- Anti-Fatmisia
- 5 Ways People With Thin Privilege Can Fight Body Terrorism
- 6 Tools For Understanding and Dismantling Weight Stigma and Fatphobia
- 7 Things I Wish People Knew About Being a Fat Woman
Specific to Healthcare
- 11 Reasons Your ‘Concern’ for Fat People’s Health Isn’t Helping Anyone
- BMI, mortality, weight stigma, science… sigh | by Emily Nagoski | Medium
- My Cancer Pt. II, Medical Fat-Shaming Could Have Killed Me
- The Fat Misdiagnosis Epidemic
Journal Articles
- Bangalore, S., Fayyad, R., Laskey, R., DeMicco, D. A., Messerli, F. H., & Waters, D. D. (2017). Body-weight fluctuations and outcomes in coronary disease. New England Journal of Medicine, 377(1), 94–96. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc1705832
- Dougherty, Geoff B. et al. Measuring Structural Racism and Its Association With BMI. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 59, Issue 4, 530 - 537
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. (2016, April 8). Ethnic differences in BMI and disease risk. Obesity Prevention Source.
- Puhl, R.M. and Heuer, C.A. (2009), The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update. Obesity, 17: 941-964. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2008.636
- Tomiyama, A., Carr, D., Granberg, E. et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health. BMC Med 16, 123 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
- Udo T, Purcell K, Grilo CM. Perceived weight discrimination and chronic medical conditions in adults with overweight and obesity. Int J Clin Pract. 2016;70(12):1003-1011. doi:10.1111/ijcp.12902
- WHO Expert Consultation. Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies [published correction appears in Lancet. 2004 Mar 13;363(9412):902]. Lancet. 2004;363(9403):157-163. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15268-3
Poverty
The Basics
- 7 Reasons We Have to Stop Treating ‘Poor’ Like a Bad Word
- A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne
- The Crisis of State-Enabled Violence: 4 Ways Homelessness Is Body Terrorism
Specific to Healthcare
Improving Health Care & Patient Engagement
Improving Healthcare
- Developing patient-centered care: an ethnographic study of patient perceptions and influence on quality improvement
- How do we deal with multiple goals for care within an individual patient trajectory? A document content analysis of health service research papers on goals for care
- ‘Just so you know, the patient is staff’: healthcare professionals’ perceptions of caring for healthcare professional–patients
- Two sides of the coin: patient and provider perceptions of health care delivery to patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
LGBTQ+
Patient Engagement & Activation
- Effectively Measuring Patient Engagement: An Investigation into Patient Engagement and the Patient Activation Measure
- eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review
- How do People with Different Levels of Activation Self-Manage their Chronic Conditions?
- Patient Portal as a Tool for Enhancing Patient Experience and Improving Quality of Care in Primary Care Practices
- Patients with lower activation associated with higher costs; delivery systems should know their patients' 'scores'
- Racial/ethnic disparities and consumer activation in health
- What the evidence shows about patient activation: better health outcomes and care experiences; fewer data on costs
- When seeing the same physician, highly activated patients have better care experiences than less activated patients
- Why does patient activation matter? An examination of the relationships between patient activation and health-related outcomes
At The Intersections
Anti-Oppression Work
- Anti-Oppression
- Anti-Ableism
- Anti-Sanism
- Anti-Fatmisia
- Anti-Islamomisia
- Anti-Judeomisia
- Anti-Racism
- Anti-Queermisia
- Ant-Transmisia
LGBTQ+ and...
Race
Disability
- Addressing Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction, and Obesity Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
- Caring for Transgender People with Severe Mental Illness
Additional Resources
- A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill
- Black Disabled Lives Matter: We Can't Erase Disability in #BLM
- Black, Disabled and at Risk: The Overlooked Problem of Police Violence Against Americans with Disabilities
- Disability and GLBT Issues Resources
- Disability and Sexual Orientation: A Discussion Paper
- Gender and Disability
- Gene Editing Cannot Be Separated From The Violent History Of Eugenics And Medical Racism
- LGBT Health: People with Disabilities
- Mental Illness is not a “White Person Problem”: 4 Reasons Mental Illness is Ignored in the Latinx Community, and Why That Needs to End
- Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray: the toll of police violence on disabled Americans
- The Coronavirus Is Putting The Failings Of Ableism And Individualism On Full Display
- The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy
- The Problem With Tethering Gender Dysphoria and Autism
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
- Why Living With Chronic Illness In A Capitalist Society Is Dehumanizing
- Why Policing Disabled Folks’ Self-Diagnosis Is Classist
- Why We All Need to Fight for the Rights of Transgender Disabled People
- Why We Need More Queer And Trans Therapists Of Color
Sex-Positive Shops
- As You Like It in Eugene, OR
- Babeland in Seattle, Manhattan, and Brooklyn
- Come As You Are Co-Op in Toronto
- Early to Bed in Chicago
- Good For Her in Toronto
- Good Vibrations in San Francisco and Brookline, Mass
- Self Serve in Albuquerque
- Shag in Brooklyn
- She Bop in Portland, OR
- Smitten Kitten in Minneapolis
- Sugar in Baltimore
- The Tool Shed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Organizations & Centers
- AASECT
- Callen-Lorde Community Health Centers
- Dara Hoffman-Fox
- Equitas Health Institute for LGBTQ Health Equity
- Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
- Kink Academy
- LGBT Health Program
- LGBT Pride Clinic at MetroHealth
- Liberate Yourself
- Los Angeles LGBT Center
- Mazzoni Center
- National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
- National LGBT Cancer Network
- Pride Center of VT
- Sexuality and Disability
- SHIP: Sexual Health Includes Pleasure
- The LGBT Community Center of the Desert
- The Montrose Center
- The SF LGBT Center
- The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU)
- TransAdvocate
- Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
- World Association for Sexual Health (WAS)
- Whitman-Walker Health
- Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance
- World Professional Association for Transgender Health
- ZAMI NOBLA: National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging