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Ritualizing Queer Care

From: The Care We Dream Of

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In this chapter, the author writes a memoir of a friend’s death due to the indifference of the health care system, while also describing her experience of heath care indifference with an undiognosed chronic illness as a queer fat femme. She also describes the rituals she used to memorialize her friend.

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Blyth Barnow

Blyth Barnow is a minister, harm reductionist, writer, and community organizer. She was raised working class and has found community as a fat queer femme with a chronic illness. She is the founder of Femminary, an online ministry offering spiritual support for queers, femmes, people who use drugs, and harm reductionists. Every day she finds divinity in the profane, in the ordinary. Blyth graduated from Pacific School of Religion where she received a Master of Divinity and the Paul Wesley Yinger Preaching Award. She has previously contributed to Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.