Lectures

March 25, 2022

“Nothing About Us Without Us!” Really?: The Unequal Value of Lives in Harm Reduction NGOs

By Catherine Larocque, Thomas Foth and Wendy Gifford

This article is part of the series: Reducing Harm Responsibly

Canada, like most capitalist societies of the global North, faces “an unprecedented and devastating wave of overdoses” and overdose deaths (Wells, 2017), intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic (Government of Canada, 2021). In the summer of 2017, activists including people who use drugs (PWUD), allies, and nurses in Ottawa responded to this wave of overdoses by establishing the city’s first unsanctioned …

Lectures

December 16, 2020

Working in a Fracture Zone: Learning to Research Mental Health from Multiple Cultures

By Gerald P McKinley, Trehani M. Fonseka, Kirk Nylen, Jenine Paul, Andrew Kcomt and Leslie McGregor

This article is part of the series: Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World

We are an ensemble cast. As such, it is perhaps appropriate that one of the first places where we all came together as a team had at one point been a set for a Canadian television show. Now the buildings are owned by the First Nations, an Anishinaabek community, with whom we were partnered. We came together through a series …

Features

April 12, 2019

Queer Zones: Refugees from Africa and Interactions with Canada’s Borderlands

By Notisha Massaquoi

This article is part of the series: Medico-Legal Borderlands

On June 28, 2009, a group of queer Africans took to the streets of Toronto. In what is one of the largest and longest-running Pride parades in North America, this group led the way. As well as being queer and born in Africa, they were all also seeking refugee status in Canada. As they proceeded along the parade route, they …

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“Nothing About Us Without Us!” Really?: The Unequal Value of Lives in Harm Reduction NGOs

Working in a Fracture Zone: Learning to Research Mental Health from Multiple Cultures

Queer Zones: Refugees from Africa and Interactions with Canada’s Borderlands