Sabrina Jamileh Sayegh, BS

The experiences of queer and transgender people of color are understudied; this is truer still for Southwest Asian/North African (SWANA) queer and transgender people. This presentation aims to highlight this intersection and reflect on its impact on selfunderstanding, community belonging, and interactions with social institutions. This will be done through examining and discussing photography by and of a queer, transgender, Arab.

Sabrina Jamileh Sayegh, BS (they//she) is a queer and nonbinary medical student at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. They were raised in Connecticut by immigrant parents from Jordan and Spain. Prior to medical school, she worked as a Spanish-language interpreter at a clinic serving uninsured, low-income patients. They first became interested in humanities work during undergraduate coursework on religion, gender, and sexuality. There, she became passionate about queer stories during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and how those might be captured in a creative medium to make the embedded history more accessible to learners. Their research in medical school has focused on queer and transgender health histories, violence experiences and cancer risk in transgender patients, and the intersection of queer, transgender, and Arab identity as it relates to self-understanding, community belonging, and social institutions. She is committed to clinical work and research that drives social justice and plans to have a future clinical practice providing primary care for underserved populations including queer, transgender, and immigrant patients. Outside of this work, they are a poet, plant-parent, and avid LEGO enthusiast.