Beyond the Binary: Healthcare Advance Directives for Queer & Polyamorous Lives

Beyond the Binary: Healthcare Advance Directives for Queer & Polyamorous Lives

Traditional healthcare advance directives weren't designed with our communities in mind. This essential workshop addresses the unique legal and medical challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals and those in polyamorous relationships when navigating healthcare decisions and end-of-life planning.

Drawing from extensive experience in bioethics and hospice and palliative care, Dr. Chatburn will help you explore how to create comprehensive advance directives that honor your chosen family, protect your relationships, and ensure your values are respected during medical crises. We'll address the gaps in standard forms that often exclude our lived realities and relationships.

This practical workshop covers:

- Understanding different types of advance directives and their limitations

- Protecting chosen family's rights to visit and make decisions

- Addressing gender identity and transition-related care preferences

- Creating documents that reflect polyamorous relationship structures

- Communicating with healthcare providers about your relationship dynamics

- Ethical and legal considerations and state-specific requirements

Participants will leave with personalized draft documents, resources for legal review, and confidence in advocating for themselves and their loved ones within healthcare systems. We'll also discuss how to have these crucial conversations with partners, metamours, and chosen family members.

This workshop combines bioethics expertise with compassionate guidance, recognizing that advance care planning is both practical necessity and act of love for those who matter most to us.

Bring your questions, your relationships' complexities, and your commitment to protecting what you've built together.

Dr. Chatburn holds a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree and a Master's in Bioethics from Kansas City University, completed her Family Medicine residency with the University of Washington, and fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at The University of Kansas. She is board-certified as a Healthcare Ethics Consultant (HEC-C), and has served as clinical faculty at multiple medical schools. Andi is based in the San Francisco Bay Area living her best queer, kinky, poly life. She finds restoration through dancing, swimming in wild waters, and wandering in nature's fierce embrace.

https://www.andichatburn.net/

This event does not constitute legal advice.