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M. K. Thekkumkattil is a trans, disabled, kinky writer and nurse whose liberation is bound up with Palestinian liberation. They have received support from SmokeLong Quarterly, Tin House, Queer Art Mentorship, Lambda Literary, VONA, and Writing by Writers. Their work can be found in the chapbook Weaving Liberation as well as in Black Warrior Review, smoke and mold, ___figuration, Year Round Queer, and In the Future There Are No Hospitals.

Klappentext

A unique, conversation-starting essay collection about critical care work, kink practices, and how one might transform the other. 
 M. K. Thekkumkattil is an ICU nurse looking for ways to show real care for their patients in the age of COVID. When not working in critical care, they struggle with chronic illness, endure controlling partners, and write letters to former patients that wrestle with the violence of professional nursing. At the same time, their slow gender awakening and the new, kink-informed relationships that accompany it begin to shape a way out of the brutalities the hospital system requires. 
 In essays that blend memoir and manifesto, The Sexuality of Care builds a convincing new argument for how the present-day medical system fails both its patients and its laboring nurses, as well as how the vision of radical consent found in queer kink practices lets us imagine a future where hospitals are abolished, yet care thrives.

Inhalt

Table of Contents for The Sexuality of Care

• “Foreword” (expected from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
• “Move at the Pace of the Body”
• “Dear Peter” (1)
• “Metaphors of Care”
• “Dear Peter” (2)
• “Nursing as Gender Rebellion”
• “Caregiving as Motherhood”
• “COVID Nursing Made Me Trans”
• “Dear Filipina Nurses Who Died of COVID”
• “Dear Julia”
• “I Would Let You Hit Me Once”
• “Dear Julia and Peter”
• “Did I Deserve to Die When I Was Drunk?”
• “Fuck Saving Lives”
• “Dear Alison”
• “Carved Up”
• “The Sexuality of Care”
• “A Critical Care Nurse Goes to a Play Party”
• “Bound In Liberation”
• “The Softer Choice is the Better Choice”
• “Dear Chechie”
• “Dreaming Critical Care”