ABSTRACT

In 1994, the Birmingham based lesbian health activism group LesBeWell began to produce a newsletter titled Dykenosis. Variously describing itself as ‘for women who have sex with women’, ‘health information for dykes’ and ‘the national bi-monthly newsletter about lesbian health’, the newsletter offers a window into how one activist group imagined the health and ill health of women who had sex with women in the 1990s. By analysing Dykenosis, this article illuminates how LesBeWell identified and attempted to eliminate social and institutional obstacles to ‘dyke’ health. The article focuses on Dykenosis’ collation of experiences of invisibility and hypervisibility within Britain’s National Health Service, and the mobilisation of research, complaint, and community self-help within its pages and beyond as remedy to NHS shortcomings.

摘要

1994 年，伯明翰的女同性恋健康活动组织 LesBeWell 开始制作一份名为Dykenosis 的时事通讯。该时事通讯将自己描述为“针对与女性发生性关系的女性”、“堤坝健康信息”和“关于女同性恋健康的全国双月刊通讯”，该通讯提供了一个窗口，让我们了解一个活动团体如何想象女性的健康和不良健康状况。 20世纪90年代与女性发生性关系的女性。通过分析Dykenosis，本文阐明了 LesBeWell 如何识别并尝试消除“堤坝”健康的社会和制度障碍。这篇文章的重点是Dykenosis对英国国民医疗服务体系内隐形和超可视性经验的整理，以及在其页面内外动员研究、投诉和社区自助，作为对国民医疗服务体系缺陷的补救措施。