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Revolution through Health Care
Interview with Anita “Durt” O’Shea
From: The Care We Dream Of
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This interview is with Anita “Durt” O’Shea, the deputy directior of St. James Infirmary, a peer-based non-profit organization that serves sex workers throughout the San Franscso Bay area. In it, she outlines a vision for what sex-worker led health care grounded in a commitment to social justice and harm reduction can look like.
Contributors
Zena Sharman
Zena Sharman (she/her) is a writer, speaker, strategist, and LGBTQ+ health advocate. Zena edited the Lambda Literary Award–winning anthology The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and winning anthology The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care, and coedited the Lambda Award–nominated anthology Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, which was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. She regularly speaks on LGBTQ+ health to audiences of health care providers, students, and community members at universities and conferences across North America. A PhD-trained health researcher, Zena has worked in strategic leadership roles in the health research sector for over a decade. Her resumé also includes party thrower, cabaret host, go-go dancer for a queer punk band, campus radio DJ, and elementary school public speaking champion. You can learn more about Zena and her work at zenasharman.com.
