Educational Resources

Binary & Beyond is a community-led video produced by the Open Door program at Access Alliance, on behalf of the Mid-West Toronto Ontario Health Team. It includes voices from trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse community members, as they share their experiences, talk about what screening looks like, and discuss why early detection matters with a healthcare professional.

Encouraging 2SLGBTQI+ people aged 40 to 74 in Ontario to get breast and chest cancer screening, the video explores:  

• What breast and chest cancer screening means for 2SLGBTQI+ communities
• How mammograms work, and what to expect
• Where to get screened in Ontario
• Resources and supports for inclusive, affirming care 
   

The Empowerment Tip Sheets provide accessible information to help LGBTQ+ newcomers understand their rights and responsibilities in Canada.

The Anti-Oppressive Practice Toolkit for Service Providers Working with Black LGBTQ+ Newcomers offers practical strategies and tools for creating inclusive programs and policies. It includes:

• Sector-specific recommendations (settlement, housing, healthcare, employment, legal, community spaces)
• Inclusive language and trauma-informed practice guides
• Reflection tools, community feedback templates, and training modules

In this 90 webinar Bianca Espinoza and Robert St. Aubin from the Thunder Bay Newcomer Legal Clinic, and Tejrah Shah from the Northwestern Ontario Local Immigration Partnership present some of the  barriers faced by the LGBTQIA+ newcomers in accessing services and support in Northern Ontario, provide information on the services available through the Thunder Bay Newcomer Legal Clinic, and discuss the particular impact of Bill C-2 and Bill C-12 on LGBTQIA+ newcomers who may seek to apply for refugee status while in Canada.

Nos panelistes, Javi Fuentes Bernal, Laurent Francis Ngoumou, et Jean Francois Chachou partagent leurs expériences vécues en tant que 2SLGBTQIA+ dans le processus d'immigration au Canada, abordant des problèmes urgents locaux et mondiaux. Ce forum vise à partager des bonnes pratiques et développer des stratégies concrètes pour améliorer la sécurisation culturelle au sein des services d'établissement avec un vue critique et complexe.

 Ce webinar qui a eu lieu le 5 décembre 2024, poursuive une discussion sur l'impact des récentes lois transphobes dans plusieurs provinces canadiennes ainsi que les mouvements transphobe et homophobe de l’extreme droite en Ontario sur les jeunes.

On September 25, 2024, OCASI PSI hosted a webinar with three incredible international student activists in our community who educated us about how student movements have historically played, presently play, and will continue to play pivotal roles in social progress. Watch here!

A resource for queer and trans South Asians, reclaiming histories of acceptance, love, and reverence. The resource is to understand our histories, to understand what our queer and trans ancestors looked like. It aims to affirm queer and trans South Asians and their indigenous histories. It’s to understand that being queer and trans is not a “white person thing”; it is, in fact, something that is indigenous to South Asian communities. The histories and identities discussed in this resource are not exclusionary. This is the first attempt at understanding these histories from afar through some resources available.

L'infographie « Queer et trans contre le pinkwashing » est une ressource informative créer par Mubaadarat (Montréal) pour résister aux récits de pinkwashing qui utilisent les droits humains LGBTQ+ comme couverture de la violence et de l'occupation coloniale. Cette ressource est également disponible en anglais et en arabe.

A chapter extracted from a book and adopting the style of the manifesto, CJ DeLuzio Chasin examines how the historical establishment of the concept of sexual orientation needs to be undone in order to move toward what the author describes as a truly ace- and aro-friendly society. Of note, such a society is intersectional and abolitionist in its figuration: it must also be anti-ableist, antisanist, anti-racist, and anti-colonialist.