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Spectrum Medical Care Center CEO Mark Moeremans introduces The Lavender Lounge and the clinic that’s served Arizona’s LGBTQ+ community for…
Nothing About Us Without Us
Dr. Kyle Gresenz is a queer theorist and rural healthcare scholar who breaks down how geography, policy, and structural urbanism dictate who gets care and who doesn’t and what it takes to move past learned helplessness toward real change.
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Special guest:
Dr. Kyle Gresenz (he/him)
Public Health Scholar & Queer Theorist
Dr. Kyle Gresenz is a queer theorist and rural healthcare scholar working to expose how systems fail LGBTQ+ communities. We dig into the four domains of healthcare, structural urbanism, and why geography and policy still dictate who gets care and who doesn’t.
Kyle also breaks down how finances, location, and discriminatory policies block access and what it actually takes to push past learned helplessness toward real, structural change.
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