Bad Blood: Why does Canada still reject queer and immigrant blood?
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An interview with professor OmiSoore Dryden.
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Blood fiction: belonging, services and status Indians
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Canada remains the only country in the world to legislate Indigenous identity on the concept of blood quantum.
Read MoreFlesh and blood: Filipino dinuguan, my dad and me
/Among my cousins, to eat dinuguan— a blood stew we called "chocolate meat" — was to win a dare, not to savour a favourite dish.
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Fade Resistance
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Images from an archival project by Toronto-based photographer and collector Zun Lee.
Read MoreSpilling blood: Muslim sacrifice rituals, as seen in the GTA
/Known as qurbani or aqiqa, taking the life of an animal is a gesture of thanks to a higher power for providing bounty in one’s life.
Read MoreSweating blood: I was a Pharmamedica guinea pig
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The billion dollar pharmaceutical industry requires the bodies of low-income wage earners, debt-ridden students, and immigrants.
Read More(Half) blood brothers: An inside son considers the one on the outside
/It seems funny that, by virtue of sharing the same blood, my father's other child and I should have anything in common.
Read MoreLater, Haters: What is a hate crime?
/Laws against hate crimes are a deterrent, sure, but they also signal who Canada does—and doesn’t—consider worth protecting.
Read MoreThicker than water: A podcast on intercultural adoption
/People from families created through adoption are living embodiments of the nature versus nurture debate.
Read MoreBlood, money: Nose to tail was kind of a fail
/White people were only going to eat humble pie and knuckle bone until their fortunes changed. As soon as they could afford it again, they wanted steak.
Read MoreRed, red wine: A family tradition, just not for women
/On a generations-long taboo of menstruation and food preparation.
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For centuries, community-focused care and ancestral healing knowledge have existed as practices of resistance and freedom for folks of colour.