I am very happy to share our next episode this season on the topic of embracing neurodivergence within the queer community. We are all neurodiverse as a people; it's neurodivergence, differences in sensory processing, motor abilities, and communication impacting how we manifest in the world, which we unfortunately can stigmatize. Neurodivergence can appear as being autistic or ADHD as well as being dyslexic or bipolar, as examples. Pasha (pronouns she/they) @neuroqueercoach & I discuss, that queer people are more likely to be neurodivergent and that neuroqueering is a way of viewing the world that anyone can practice.

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Pasha Marlowe (she/they) brings 30 years of professional experience as a mental health professional and coach for neurodivergent adults. She speaks on virtual and live global stages on issues of neurodiversity, disability inclusion, and LGBTQIA+ advocacy. She also brings 53 years of lived experience as a multiply-neurodivergent, disabled, and queer person.

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References: 1) "Neurodiversity & Gender-Diverse Youth: An Affirming Approach to Care 2020" by the National LGBT Health Education Center, 2) "LGBTQIA+ and neurodiversity: the links between neurodivergence and being LGBTQ+" by The Brain Charity .

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Thank you for listening in! If you would like to learn more about what Pasha does, listen to their podcast: Neuro Queering: Beyond the Intersection of Neurodiversity and Queerness, available on most streaming platforms. You can find references written in the biography. Let’s push the conversation more on Instagram @EQueerityPodcast, Twitter/X @EQueerityPod or on TikTok @theeqpod. Also, please subscribe here on YT! Full video podcast episodes are posted on YouTube which is also linked in bio or you can type The E(Queer)ity Podcast in the search bar. Take care and see you in the next episode! 😊 .

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If you have any ideas on another segment, yourself or someone you know who would like to come on as a guest, or any feedback/comments/questions, email [email protected].

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We are kicking off Season 2 with our first significant topic in the LGBTQIA+ health disparity space: cancer. Join me and Stewart as we discuss the important work of the UK cancer charity, OUTPatients UK, focused on providing social and emotional support for queer individuals or their loved ones such as friends and family affected by cancer. Topics discussed include:

• importance of cancer charity work
• support for queer individuals w/ a cancer diagnosis
• fighting misconceptions on cancer risk impacting queer populations

Stewart O'Callaghan (they/them) is the award-winning Founder and CEO of OUTpatients, the UK's LGBTIQ+ cancer charity. Building upon their personal experience as a cancer patient, the charity is proudly patient-led and working to improve the representation, information and support available to LGBTIQ+ people affected by cancer.

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Reference: A case-control study of healthcare disparities in sex and gender minority patients with breast cancer.

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Thank you for listening in! If you would like to read more about the charity we discussed today, please visit outpatients.org.uk. You can find references for our conversation in this episode’s biography. Let’s push the conversation more on Instagram @EQueerityPodcast, Twitter/X @EQueerityPod or on TikTok @theeqpod. Full video podcast episodes are posted on YouTube which is also linked in bio or you can type The E(Queer)ity Podcast in the search bar. If you liked what you heard today, please give the show a quick star rating, follow, and/or subscribe on your preferred listening platform. Take care and see you in the next episode! 😊

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Introducing the newest segment of The E(Queer)ity Podcast titled... Lived Experiences! Hope you enjoy these conversations going forward.

Tune into this first segment of Lived Experiences as we discuss

• Intersectional experiences being Black and queer in academia
• Thoughts about affordable action and its recent overturn
• Current status of diversity, equity and inclusion across higher education
• Moses' passion for addressing HIV health disparities within the LGBTQ+ community.

Moses Akhenaten (him/he) is a first-year immunology PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Moses’s research primarily investigates a cure for HIV and identifies ways to augment our immune system to regulate HIV infection. In addition to finding a cure for HIV, his dream is to make medicine accessible to all communities around the world, especially historically marginalized communities.

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Reference: Experiences of LGBTQ People In Four Year Colleges and Graduate Programs: Report from The Williams Institute

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Thank you for listening in! If you would like to follow more of Moses’s content, he’s on Instagram @moses.akhen. Let’s continue to push the conversation more on Instagram @EQueerityPodcast, Twitter @EQueerityPod or on TikTok @theeqpod. Take care and see you in the next episode! 😊

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Did you know that Illinois was the second state in the US to accomplish a gender-affirming surgery for a transgender person in prison? When barriers limiting gender-affirming care for transgender people already exist plentiful on the outside, this process carries even more challenges, questions, and even litigation when considering individuals in prison. I speak with Dr. Lamenta Sweetie Conway, Deputy Chief of Medicine for the Illinois Department of Corrections, about her impactful work pioneering and advocating for the care of transgender individuals within the penal system as an ally and physician. In this final episode of season 1, join our discussion as we reflect on creating equitable healthcare for this marginalized group in our society.

In this episode, we discuss the most stark health inequity affecting transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people, mortality. In 2022, the Human Rights Campaign reported that 41 people in the US who were TGD-identifying died by means of gun violence or otherwise murder. These numbers are likely underreported due to stigma or misinformation. The existence of tdor.translivesmatter.info, founded by our guest today, Anna Jayne Metcalf, sheds light on the number of killings worldwide involving anti-transgender violence. We talk about the website's utility in uncovering important, undiscovered data points that governments should be collecting and how the death reports serve as the basis for understanding the public health crisis of increased mortality of TGD people.

In this episode, we praise the incredible life-saving work of community health organizations intervening in LGBTQ+ health disparities. Our case example, EmPower Global, started as a community-serving, nonprofit organization in Indianapolis that now serves on a global scale to empower TGNC and LGBTQIA+ disenfranchised communities with a focus on health and social services. I speak with Gregory Williams, one of the organization's executive leaders, about the organization's growth, the intersection of faith, identity, and health, and the need for healthcare workers to reduce bias by interacting more with their community.

In this episode, we discuss the threat of viruses to our understanding of humanity, and how HIV has been the case example of a virus that has and continues to be used as a causative agent for stigmatizing and excluding queer communities from healthcare. Dr. Steven Thrasher, transdisciplinary scholar and journalist, speaks with us about his work investigating the systemic sociodemographic conditions that negatively skew our treatment of people with HIV and other viruses mentioned within his book, The Viral Underclass.