<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A new special issue of <i>Rhetoric of Health and Medicine</i>
has arrived!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Issue 7.1, “Queer And Trans Health Justice: Interventions,
Perspectives, And Questions,” was compiled by guest editors Drs. Fernando
Sanchez, McKinley Green, and Wilfredo Flores. In the introduction, the editors write,
“[W]e hope this special issue both highlights the work occurring around health
inequity in RHM and reshapes the parameters of our field’s disciplinary purview
and commitments” and consider the articles found within to be an “entry point”
for such endeavors. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Featured articles include: </p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.75in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> 
</span></span>“Trans Tricksters, Looping Effects, and Gender
Diagnoses as Containment” by V. Jo Hsu</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.75in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> 
</span></span>“Menstrual Methodologies: On Menstrual Pain and
the Importance of Ungendering Bleeding” by Ela Przybylo</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.75in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> 
</span></span>“Toward a Queer and (Trans)Formative Methodology
for Rhetoric of Health and Medicine: Institutional Critique” by Ruby Mendoza</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.75in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> 
</span></span>“Bodies of Knowledge: Biomarkers and Rhetoric of
the Body” by Sarah Price and Richard Mocarski</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.75in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> 
</span></span>Book Review: On Hil Malatino’s (2020) <i>Trans
Care </i>by Teresa Williams</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The full issue can be found here: <a href="https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/375" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/375</a>.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Many thanks to all of our contributors on this important
issue! </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cheers,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Brittany</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Brittany Smart</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, Ph.D., she/her</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Assistant Editor, </span><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.upress.ufl.edu%2Frhm&data=05%7C01%7Cbrittany.smart%40louisville.edu%7C8370b8a628f4456350c208db6b9b7b3b%7Cdd246e4a54344e158ae391ad9797b209%7C0%7C0%7C638222087751193990%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=C5nfi46w5HMe8dAfn8A%2BR%2Bat7WjvE5hbSRJOijr6UB8%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Rhetoric of Health and Medicine</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Indiana University School of Medicine</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:brsmart@iu.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">brsmart@iu.edu</span></a></p></div>