Treat it Queer

These pocket cards are a collection of quick reference flash cards on important queer health topics, which was titled Queer Health: Knowledge in your pocket. The pocket cards (“zaakkaartjes”) are made for students and doctors to fit in the pockets of their white coats. The cards each summarize the crucial information about one aspect of queer-inclusive healthcare (e.g. one on gender-inclusive sexual history taking, one on fertility preservation options for transgender patients etc.). The guide aims to be an accessible and user-friendly tool that describes barriers to health for gender queer people through inspiring illustrations. This is an educational tool based on biomedicine that provides evidence-based information regarding queer inclusive care that is otherwise lacking in the educational curricula of medical students and specializing doctors in The Netherlands. 

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This photovoice booklet titled The Queer Picture, combined portraits and written testimonies from queer individuals recounting their experiences and lived reality of navigating the healthcare system while queer. This Treat it Queer project re-centers and showcases the voices of the queer community, giving people and patients a space to tell their care providers, in their own words and images, what is important to them, what they’ve lived through, and what they want their providers to know. This collection of portraits and associated testimonials presents an intimate look at queer people and their experience of healthcare in the Netherlands.