Canadians Denied: A Queer Diasporic Analysis of the Canadian Blood Donor

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  • Omisoore Dryden OmiSoore Dryden is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE/UT, where she is also pursuing collaborative studies in Sexual Diversity. OmiSoore's research interests include queer diaspora, technologies of Canadian nationalism and the thematics of blood.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7202/1120163ar

Abstract

Canadian Blood Services (CBS), through its blood donor screening process, constructs a blood donor body/subject that is framed through a series of exclusions. Using queer diasporic analysis, I explore and interrogate not only the construction of the blood donor body/subject, but also the political and legal challenges brought to this construction. Résumé La Société canadienne du sang, par son processus de présélection du sang, définit un donneur de sang /sujet, en se basant sur une série d'exclusions. En se servant de l'analyse diasporique queer, j'explore et j'interroge non seulement la construction du donneur de sang/sujet, mais aussi les défis politiques et légaux qui sont apportés à cette construction.

References

"Marg the Younger," Portrait of Margaret Conrad; Susanne MacKay, 1996, www.mackay-art.com. Photo by Mike Meade.

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Published

2010-01-01

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2010): Across the Generations in Women's Studies

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Original Research

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