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Sick Futurity

The title of the zine, "Sick Futurity", is written in a pink font set against a a photograph of the Queer Tarot Guidebook (by Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham) set out on a table with various diabetes measurement devices and notes. Below the photograph, the names of the authors, Lyndsey Beutin & Cal Biruk are written in the same pink font on a white background, which frames the photo.
A zine about rethinking concepts around measuring personal health and divorcing that from capitalism and cisheteronormativity, centered around diabetes, the capitalization of diabetes management, COVID-19 and the looming problem of "surveillance for health", all from queer perspectives.

Zine includes photo examples, journal notes, exercises and activities for readers who are looking to explore alternative methods of health measurement that are less rigid than numbers, which are often used to shame and blame individuals living with diabetes and other medical conditions.
diabetes
alternative medicine
queer health
anti-capitalism
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medical technology
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COVID-19
COVID-19 pandemic
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ad/vice: Just Say No to "Direct to Consumer Advertising," Fight the War on Advertising Drugs

"ad/vice is a collaborative project between the MSVU Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies and the MSVU Art Gallery about a hot political issue: ads for prescription drugs... We found these ads disturbing... We want to explore our responses and put our objections before the campus community for debate. Through the exhibit ad/vice (March through June 30, 2001) in the Mount Saint Vincent University Library vitrines (built-in showcases) and this zine, we have created two alternative vehicles to get our side of the story out."
--from the Introduction
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