Between dissonance and desire-queer(ing) adaptive rituals of conformity: wit(h)nessing inequities and social justice in healthcare education in the Global South through body pedagogies
Mark A. Vicars, Renaissan Dutta, Emilie Das, Shuvojit Moulik · 2026
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Mark A Vicars and colleagues published a 2026 study examining how LGBTQIA+ health is taught across the Global South, with attention to India. Adding queer health content to curricula is welcomed. Yet the teaching often frames LGBTQIA+ people as problems to fix, risk groups to manage, or warnings about unhealthy lives. That pattern, they contend, descends from colonial medicine, which decided which bodies count as normal and deserving of care.
Their study turns to body pedagogies, learning through lived bodily experience, as counter-practices that could unsettle those frames. Local identities such as hijra communities sit uneasily inside imported diagnostic categories. The authors treat that friction as instructive, not noise. They describe rituals of conformity that queer students and patients perform to stay safe inside institutions. The paper aims to give educators language for teaching inclusion as practiced care, not an added topic, in Global South health programs.
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| CREATOR | Mark A. Vicars, Renaissan Dutta, Emilie Das, Shuvojit Moulik |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |