Crisis And Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic

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• Crisis and Care reveals what is possible when activists mobilize for radical change. Contributors provide a lens for future activists to make change, even or perhaps especially, during periods of crisis.
• Crisis and Care presents compelling essays by activists who mobilized during the pandemic to fight for prison abolition, queer health data, sexual health, medicare for all, and more.
• Shankers first book Bodies and Barriers received critical acclaim from Library Journal, Book Riot, Philadelphia Gay News, and more.
• Rea Carey, author of the Foreword, is one of the LGBTQ movements most respected activists and national leaders.

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"Adrian Shanker has emerged in recent years as an urgent and prescient voice on matters concerning queer health. Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic is timely, important and shares a message we ignore at our own peril. The response to COVID-19 from LGBTQ communities is informed by our own experience with a deadly pandemic made vastly worse by poor presidential leadership. Our lived experience over the past 40 years has valuable lessons for how we should be addressing today's viral threats."
--Sean Strub, author of Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

"How did we respond That is the central question in Crisis and Care. Lots of books will look at COVID-19, but this book looks at how LGBTQ activists responded to one of the most challenging moments of our lives."
--Igor Volsky, author of Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns

"In Crisis and Care, Adrian Shanker and the contributing authors make the bold case that we are defined not by the bad things that happen in our society, but by how our community responds."
--Robyn Ochs, editor of Bi Women's Quarterly

"Crisis and Care tells stories about Queer people's experiences during COVID-19 that needs to be memorialized as another example of our community's resiliency in times of crisis. This book presents the stories of how LGBTQ community members came together to help one another not only survive the pandemic, but also our determination to thrive despite the failures of the federal government's response."
--David Heitstuman, executive director of the Sacramento LGBT Community Center

Author Bio

Adrian Shanker is editor of the critically acclaimed anthology Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health (PM Press) and the executive director of Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, PA. A specialist in LGBT health policy, he has developed leading-edge health promotion campaigns to advance health equity through behavioral, clinical, and policy changes. Adrian serves as Commissioner and health committee co-chair on the Pennsylvania Commission on LGBTQ Affairs. Rea Carey served as the National LGBTQ Task Force's executive director from 2008-2021 and has advanced a vision of freedom for LGBTQ people and their families that is broad, inclusive and progressive. She grounds her work solidly in racial, economic, gender and social justice. This approach to leadership has delivered results as diverse as: winning an LGBT-inclusive federal hate crimes prevention law; defeating multiple state anti-LGBT ballot measures; spotlighting discrimination against transgender people; winning marriage equality; positioning reproductive rights, health and justice solidly as an LGBTQ issue; building stronger support for immigration reform in the LGBTQ movement; and, successfully securing scores of changes in federal agencies to attend to the needs of the LGBTQ community. Carey is a Hunt Alternatives' Prime Movers Fellow and serves on the boards of directors for the Flamboyan Foundation and the Freeman Foundation.