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Ottawa Book Launch of Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation
February 3 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join us to celebrate the launch of OmiSoore Dryden’s book, Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation. Presented by the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at Carleton U and Ottawa U, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Black Health at Ottawa U.
Monday February 3, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Social Sciences Building, room 4007
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.