Got Blood to Give

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ACS4

Publication Year:
2024

ISBN-13: 9781773636993

<p>Our blood has stories to tell, and we are told stories about blood. Globally, blood is a story that is built &mdash; 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&rsquo;s founding. Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis,&nbsp;<em>Got Blood to Give</em>&nbsp;examines how anti-Black&nbsp;homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation systems.</p>

<p>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.&nbsp;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.</p>

<p>From a BlaQueer disasporic theoretical lens, this book uses narrative as method to show how healthcare systems continue to propagate anti-Blackness.</p>