Queer situatedness with respect to the pandemic, while providing context to their varied vulnerabilities and experiences.

This Module have highlighted queer situatedness with respect to the pandemic, while providing context to their varied vulnerabilities and experiences. While we (in Canadian society, as a whole) often like to believe that queer individuals have the same rights and vulnerabilities as “everyone else”, discuss:

How this is not as accurate as we are often led to believe, and how COVID has highlighted this.

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Holly Zwalf talks about a lack of privacy and trust, as well as the objectification and stigma she and her family felt at the hospital and in her local community after coming home. Her discussion of these, and her podcast overall bring up a perspective that we have heard very little of this term – the experience of someone who experienced COVID, and particularly one who did so early on in the pandemic.

What in particular stood out to you about her (and her family’s) experience (with regards to privacy, truscixt, objectification, and or stigma)?

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