Resources

Queer Kanyen’kehá:ka author and educator Marie Laing spoke with 10 young trans, queer and two-spirit Indigenous people in Toronto in fall 2017, as part of the research for her Master’s thesis. They had conversations about how they use the term two-spirit, how it’s related to other words they use to describe their genders, sexualities, and ways of being in the world, and the brilliance of their communities. Laing made her thesis into a zine to be accessible to the community members. 

2SLGBTQ+ Interfaith panel discussion on gender, sexuality and faith organized by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board on February 9th, 2022. Participants heard from Kusha Dadui, OCDSB Trans and Gender Diverse Student Support Coordinator, and a panel including El-Farouk Khaki - queer Imam and co-founder of Salaam Canada, Caro Ibrahim - BIPOC Christain faith-based counsellor and Orev Katz - 2SLGBTQ+ non-binary rabbi who has done a lot of work with incarcerated people.

This is a useful overview of the challenges faced by asylum seekers, inland refugee claimants, in the Canadian context. This was a document prepared by OCASI in 2015.

The Every Teacher Project is a national research study that was carried out by the University of Winnipeg in partnership with the Manitoba Teachers Society (MTS). Every teacher organization in Canada assisted the researchers and project partners in getting the word out about the initial online survey, where over 3,400 teachers from across Canada participated in the largest study to date worldwide on teachers' perspectives on LGBTQ-inclusive education.

The Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Families Speak Out About School contains a video interview study (2014-2020) that was designed and conducted by a research team from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Over the last six years the team has included 15 team members, all of whom work and study at the University of Toronto. 

The goal of the study was to video interview LGBTQ families across Ontario about their children’s experiences in school and share findings from these interviews with teachers, community educators and other LGBTQ families. Between 2015 and 2018 they interviewed 37 families from urban, suburban and rural communities across the province of Ontario.  You can find excerpts from their interviews on this website.  
 

This brief resource includes a brief introduction to LGBTQ terminology;  addresses common myths that Muslim families may have about LGBTQ people, followed by affirming responses; helpful tips on how to show support; and recommendations for further reading list.