The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals

About this book

A unique, conversation-starting essay collection about critical care work, kink practices, and how one might transform the other. M. K. Thekkumkattil is an ICU nurse looking for ways to show real care for their patients in the age of COVID. When not working in critical care, they struggle with chronic illness, endure controlling partners, and write letters to former patients that wrestle with the violence of professional nursing. At the same time, their slow gender awakening and the new, kink-informed relationships that accompany it begin to shape a way out of the brutalities the hospital system requires. In essays that blend memoir and manifesto, The Sexuality of Care builds a convincing new argument for how the present-day medical system fails both its patients and its laboring nurses, as well as how the vision of radical consent found in queer kink practices lets us imagine a future where hospitals are abolished, yet care thrives.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9781558613621

Publisher

Feminist Press

Published

July 14, 2026

Pages

272

Weight

12.8 oz

Subject

Social Science