First Nations

Blood Borne Illnesses and Prisons

The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network has produced several videos where former prisoners or family members of prisoners tell their stories of drug use in prisons. The reality is that drugs do get into the prison system, but sterile injection equipment is not available. Therefore, prisoners are at high risk for being infected with HIV and …

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Two-spirit: Beyond sex and gender

This article from Nexus, the student newspaper at Camoson College, explores the term two-spirit and how it’s related but distinct from LGBTQ identities. ““Those categories are themselves a western construct,” says Dr. Sarah Hunt, a Kwakwaka’wakw writer and activist who teaches in the Indigenous Studies and Community Family and Child Services Program here at Camosun …

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