The field of medicine can no longer deny or overlook the existence of systemic anti-Black
racism in Canada and how it affects the health of Black people and communities. We can …

Black studies both addresses the epistemic dilemma Eurocentrism makes of Blackness while
also understanding Blackness as relational, situating Black activism and intellectual life as …

• Critical Race Theory advances understanding of the meaning and importance of racism and
its creation of “race.”• Anti-Black racism affects the lives of all Black people in Canada and …

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 …

Introduction African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities are disproportionately infected
by HIV in Ontario, Canada. They constitute only 5% of the population of Ontario yet account …

In this dissertation, I explore the Canadian Blood Services blood donation questionnaire
and how the blood stories assembled within this document, and in the larger blood system, …

Institutions everywhere seem to be increasingly aware of their roles in settler colonialism
and anti-Black racism. As such, many racialized workers find themselves tasked with …

Campus, the special review committee was established “in the wake of allegations of racial
and sexist harassment made by a Black female [graduate] student, Janice Joseph”(1). The …

Black communities bear a hugely disproportionate share of Canada’s HIV epidemic. Black
persons annually represent up to one quarter of new diagnoses, while in contrast, diagnoses …

Health disparities persist across socioeconomic, racial, and geographic boundaries, underscoring
the need for rigorous research and community-driven strategies to address systemic …