Educational Resources

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.

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. 

This guide is prepared by ACAS - Asian Community AIDS Services and is written with East and South East Asian cis women, trans women and non-binary newcomers in mind. It is intended to help better understand dating culture in Canada, slang, consent, and sexual health. 

This is the complete list of terms and definitions used in the OCASI Positive Spaces training modules.
 

Abstract

The settlement services sector in Toronto, Canada, has faced difficulties in responding to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) immigrant youth in ways that respect their specific experiences. One way agencies have taken up this challenge in Toronto has been to develop LGBTQ-specific settlement services. Housed within a diverse range of organisations, these services are intended to engage and support LGBTQ immigrant youth. In this article, we report on evaluation research conducted with LGBTQ immigrant young people from Griffin Centre’s reachOUT Newcomer Network where we asked about their experiences accessing settlement services in Toronto. Our findings suggest that LGBTQ immigrant youth are deeply influenced by intersecting identities linked to racialization, sexuality, gender identity, education, employment, and immigration status. Participants expressed overwhelming interest in accessing support, but remain disconnected from settlement services. A reconceptualization of LGBTQ settlement services within a framework of hybridity that challenges essentialism and neo-colonialism would improve service delivery. This shift would allow for more integrated settlement services that acknowledge LGBTQ newcomer youth and their experiences of (un)belonging.

Creating Awareness and Understanding of the Transgender Community is an educational video created by the Greater Sudbury Police Service in partnership with TG Inner selves. Lesson plan, PowerPoint, and speaker's notes also available. 

Note: This video uses the term "sexual identity" to refer to "sex." In other contexts, the term "sexual identity" is often used to mean "sexual orientation." 

The Domino Project is a peer led initiative for and by Black LGBTQIA+ youth (16-29 years old) in Toronto. In May 2020, the Domino project introduced the Domino Table Talk, an online discussion series, to understand how COVID-19 affected the daily lives of young Black Queer and Trans people who accessed their program. This report summarizes the experiences of the participants, who identified mental health and well-being, access to health care, social connections, safety, employment, income security, and transportation as the main areas of their lives affected by the pandemic.