Got Blood to Give
Joseph Chirayil
, Jude Castillo
, Brad MULLER
, Marilyn Stanley
, Katie Kah
, Ryan Woods
, Hilary Squires
, Joe Mitchell
, Agnes Marshall
, Natasha Andres
, Dot Mann
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Tami Osato
, Sharon Forzley
, Dorothy Wong
, Patricia Johnson
, Noelle Walsh
, Barry Kazimer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Mireille Goulet
, Emily Steiner
, Brittney Warren
, Andrea Pole
, Rita Osullivan
, Joe Titone
, Margaret McKay
, Sara Conway
, Tom Murray
, Lynn Bechtel
, Edward Dalton
, Riel Clarke
, Cynthia Blum
, Shawna Moodie
, Benita Hartwell
, Morgan Jefferies
, Donna Roucoulet
, Daniel Klein
, Ken Gilmour
, Rodney Cross
, Janice Cournoyer
, Kym Marsh
, Lisa Mallia
, Jane McRobb
, Chris Lantz
, Roland Schigas
, Rosa Cross
, Melissa Poremba
, Alice Meems
, Jill Handrigan
, Cherryl Koylass
, Shelley Butcher
, Janet Hosokawa
, Stephanie Trotter
, Janet Miller
, Sarah Dalton
, Shayla Bradley
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Sahar Sa
, M M English
, Diane McPherson
, lesley johnston
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Crystal Inwood
, Kim Cappellina
, Deanna Radford
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Lynn Andrews
, Nancy Reid
, Dana Derks
, Christine Labelle
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Our blood has stories to tell, and we are told stories about blood. Globally, blood is a story that is built — whose blood counts, whose blood spills and whose blood is of use. The history of blood donation practices in Canada speaks to the larger blood story of anti-Black racism, evident since the country’s founding. Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, Got Blood to Giveexamines how anti-Black homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation systems.
OmiSoore H. Dryden, a Black queer femme academic and the foremost scholar on Canadian blood donation practices, examines contaminated blood crises in the 1980s and 1990s, Canadian Red Cross Society, and Canadian Blood Services. She contextualizes contemporary homonationalisms, medical anti-Black racism, homophobia and transphobia in blood-related practices, connecting blood stories with health disparities affecting Black and Black queer populations.
From a BlaQueer disasporic theoretical lens, this book uses narrative as method to show how healthcare systems continue to propagate anti-Blackness.
