Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture

Julie Avril Minich examines Latinx artistic engagements with health politics to present alternate visions of health and wellbeing among the Latinx community. Table of Contents 7 Acknowledgments 9 Introduction: Radical Health/Radical Unwellness 15 1 Unprotected Texts: Queer Latinx Expression in the Aftermath of AIDS 38 2 Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetic Latinidades 66 3 Healing without a Cure: Radical Health and Racialized Gender Violence 96 4 Mental Health and Migrant Justice: Family Separation and Reimagining Wellness 130 Remedio: The Navigator 164 Notes 181 References 201 Index 221