Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation Book Launch
Join MISC at 4:00 pm on Monday, February 17th at the Faculty Club (3450 McTavish Street) for the launch of OmiSoore Dryden鈥檚 new book, Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation.
Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, this book investigates how anti-Black homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation.
Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden (she/her/hers), a Black queer femme and professor at Dalhousie University. Her academic appointments include, founding Director of the Black Studies Research Institute (in STEMM), the James R Johnston Endowed Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Faculty of Medicine (2019-2024), and co-founder and co-lead of the national organization, the Black Health Education Collaborative. OmiSoore engages in interdisciplinary scholarship and research that focuses on Black LGBTQI communities, blood donation systems in Canada, and addressing anti-Black racism in healthcare and medical education, and developing Black health curricular content. Her book, Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation was published by Fernwood Publishing (Nov 2024).
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A and reception. This event is free and open to public; registration is required via
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