Foreword / Kai Cheng Thom ; Introduction / Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano --
Part I. Conversations about mental health and wellness. Falling through the cracks of queer and black / Tanisha Neely ; Queer affirmative therapy / Arlene Istar Lev ; Not all wounds are visible / Louisa Hammond ; Border/lines / Juan Antonio Trujillo ; Sa kanyang sariling mga salita : health, identity, and articulations of self / Donald V. Brown, Jr. with Fidelindo A. Lim ; Trust me, I'm a doctor / Lynn Breedlove ; LGBTQ substance abuse and mental health issues : a provider's journey / Joseph Ruggiero ; The bone crushing / Bill Konigsberg --
Part II: Stories of survival. In Chiron's footsteps / Paula J. Williams ; Not our fault / Chana Wilson ; Figuring it out together : mental health survival strategies from Detroit's queer and trans youth of color / Lance Hicks ; Sisyphus (or: Rocks fall and everyone dies) / J.R. Sullivan Voss ; The family legacy ends here / Teresa Theophano ; Roll the dice / Michael Brown ; Jesus and the closets / Sara Zaanti ; The lived experience of LGBTQ veterans : finding support within the VA healthcare system / Kathryn Wagner --
Part III: Encounters of the mad kind. Psychiatry / Kate Millett ; Surviving science, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love being mad and queer / Calvin Rey Moen ; Knowing Reynolds / Lucy Winer ; On a subway platform, a life flashes : here, gone / Antoine B. Craigwell ; This work is about digested socks / Gabrielle Jordan Stein ; Taming my inner fundamentalist / Kelly Barth ; Fix me please : I'm gay! / Guy Albert ; Crowdsourcing my antipsychotic / Stephanie Schroeder --
Part IV: Pushing boundaries. On listening to clients, or Why do providers sometimes have a hard time hearing what recipients of care have to say? / Christian Huygen ; Problem glyphs / Eliza Gauger ; Erasure / Gabriella M. Belfiglio ; Informed consent / Asher J. Wickell ; Bad penny / J.M. Ellison ; Liberating the big pink elephant in the therapy room / Thomas Mondragon ; GLEAM / Nikkiesha N. McLeod --
Part V: The poetics of mental health and wellness. Outlier: the agoraphobia fragments / Kevin Shaw ; Were you confused as a child? / Stephen Mead ; Pleasure-based parenting / Crista Anne ; Doctor Anonymous : a play, and a lesson in medical ethics / Guy Fredrick Glass ; Jekyll's lover / James Penha ; Feathers / Benjamin Klas.
