GOT BLOOD TO GIVE - OmiSoore Dryden (with Nehal El-Hadi)

Name: GOT BLOOD TO GIVE - OmiSoore Dryden (with Nehal El-Hadi)
Start: 2024-11-21T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-21T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 315 Roncesvalles Avenue,Toronto,M6R 2M6,CA

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

315 Roncesvalles Avenue,Toronto,M6R 2M6,CA | Toronto, ON

Join us for the launch of OmiSoore Dryden's GOT BLOOD TO GIVE! In conversation with Nehal El-Hadi.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, this book investigates how anti-Black homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden (she/her/hers), a Black queer femme and professor at Dalhousie University, is the James R Johnston Endowed Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Faculty of Medicine, the Interim Director of the Black Studies Research Institute (in STEMM), and the 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 anti-Black racism in healthcare, medical education, and Black health curricular content development.