In this episode, host Aimee Bahng interviews Jenna Lloyd, author of the "health" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. They discuss how health is often used as a nonpartisan marker of political issues, such as the economy and the environment. They also delve into the concept of healthism, the profitable form of medicalization that emerged in the 1970s, and its collusion with capitalism.The conversation touches on the importance of health in feminist, abolitionist, queer, and trans thought and concludes with a discussion on collective care movements.
Aimee Bahng is professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College.
Jenna M. Loyd (she/her) is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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