“<i>Radical Health</i> is a necessary and timely intervention in the fields of critical race and disability studies. Julie Avril Minich challenges us to nuance our approaches to health as a structural and social issue. This book is immensely valuable to anyone studying health in the United States today, especially in the wake of the mass disablement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” - Sami Schalk, author of (Black Disability Politics) “By drawing attention to the racialized, economic, and gendered forms of violence imposed on Latinx communities by the US healthcare system, <i>Radical Health</i> will alter the way that both Latinx studies and disability studies are practiced. I cannot stress how important this book is. Its urgency and timeliness makes it essential reading for everyone committed to the struggle for health justice.” - Richard T. Rodríguez, author of (A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad) “Julie Avril Minich’s <i>Radical Health</i> powerfully argues for the political interventions of Latinx aesthetic work. She claims art as a social justice tool, asserting its capacity to critique dominant conceptions of health by reimagining the current and possible contexts in which individuals make about their bodyminds."<br /> - Shannon Potter (E3W Review of Books)
Introduction: Radical Health/Radical Unwellness 1
1. Unprotected Texts: Queer Latinx Expression in the Aftermath of AIDS 24
2. Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetic Latinidades 52
3. Healing Without a Cure: Radical Health and Racialized Gender Violence 82
4. Mental Health and Migrant Justice: Family Separation and Reimagining Wellness 116
Remedio: The Navigator 150
Notes 167
References 187
Index 207