Tara Christianson
Biographic Data
| ID | 7447044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara Christianson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | Christianson |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIANSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7174-8989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kotawêw
Indigenous women, two-spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse people in Canada experience disproportionate HIV and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBI) inequities shaped by colonial violence and systemic racism. While Indigenous doula work is resurging as reproductive justice, its application to HIV/STBBI prevention and care remains underexplored. We examined how Indigenous HIV/STBBI doula care is envisioned and what competencie…
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work
The social work profession, with historical ties to colonial harm, must adopt decolonizing and anti-colonial approaches to promote culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities. This study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health and social services throughout Manitoba and Saskatchewan, significantly limiting access to essential services and traditional practices for Indigenous peoples living with HIV. Using a Two-Eyed Seeing app…
The Gigii-Bapiimin Study
The Gigii-Bapiimin study explored the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and wellbeing of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people living with HIV in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, two provinces in Canada with alarmingly high rates of HIV infections. Participants (n = 28 in Manitoba and n = 23 in Saskatchewan) were recruited using various methods, including flyers, community organizations, peers, and social media. The qualitative interviews…
Structural violence and necropolitics among Indigenous Peoples living with HIV who use substances in the Prairie provinces during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic within Manitoba and Saskatchewan sparked massive changes in service provision within settler-colonial and neoliberal institutions of care. For those services that remained open to IPLH, masking requirements, questionnaire requirements, scheduling requirements, and a lack of in-person services acted as only some of the barriers described by community members as detrimental to care access. Increased experiences of discriminati…
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The Gigii-Bapiimin Study
The Gigii-Bapiimin study explored the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and wellbeing of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people living with HIV in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, two provinces in Canada with alarmingly high rates of HIV infections. Participants (n = 28 in Manitoba and n = 23 in Saskatchewan) were recruited using various methods, including flyers, community organizations, peers, and social media. The qualitative interviews…
Structural violence and necropolitics among Indigenous Peoples living with HIV who use substances in the Prairie provinces during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic within Manitoba and Saskatchewan sparked massive changes in service provision within settler-colonial and neoliberal institutions of care. For those services that remained open to IPLH, masking requirements, questionnaire requirements, scheduling requirements, and a lack of in-person services acted as only some of the barriers described by community members as detrimental to care access. Increased experiences of discriminati…
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work
The social work profession, with historical ties to colonial harm, must adopt decolonizing and anti-colonial approaches to promote culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities. This study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health and social services throughout Manitoba and Saskatchewan, significantly limiting access to essential services and traditional practices for Indigenous peoples living with HIV. Using a Two-Eyed Seeing app…
Kotawêw
Indigenous women, two-spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse people in Canada experience disproportionate HIV and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBI) inequities shaped by colonial violence and systemic racism. While Indigenous doula work is resurging as reproductive justice, its application to HIV/STBBI prevention and care remains underexplored. We examined how Indigenous HIV/STBBI doula care is envisioned and what competencie…
Indigenous (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cultural safety (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (2 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Poverty (2 works)