Zena Sharman
Zena Sharman | |
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_in_the_video_'Get_Hooked_on_THE_CARE_WE_DREAM_OF_by_Zena_Sharman'.png) In a San Francisco Public Library video in 2022 | |
| Occupations | Health researcher, writer |
Zena Sharman is a Canadian health researcher and writer,[1] who won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Anthology at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017 for The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care.[2]
The book, an anthology of LGBTQ people's stories about their experiences in the health care system, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2016.[3]
She was previously nominated in the same category at the 24th Lambda Literary Awards in 2012 for Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, an anthology which she coedited with Ivan Coyote.[4]
Sharman is currently co-chair of the Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre, a clinic in Vancouver that serves transgender and gender-diverse clients.[5]
References
- ↑ "Dr. Zena Sharman on making health care more inclusive for LGBTQ patients". The Globe and Mail, November 19, 2016.
- ↑ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced" Archived June 10, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.
- ↑ "New collection of essays sheds light on LGBTQ health care in Canada". This Magazine, December 5, 2016.
- ↑ "Who's butch now?. Xtra!, June 1, 2011.
- ↑ "Queer, trans & incendiary" Archived June 10, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. BC Book Look, November 17, 2016.
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- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian anthologists
- Canadian LGBTQ writers
- Canadian medical researchers
- Canadian medical writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- Lambda Literary Award winners
- Living people
- Canadian queer writers
- Women anthologists
- Writers from Vancouver
- Canadian writer stubs