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Guide à l’intention des prestataires de services qui interviennent auprès des personnes trans+ et non-binaires migrantes et réfugiées, 2023

AGIR Montréal (Action LGBTQIA+ avec les ImmigrantEs et RéfugiéEs) offre un guide complet qui s’adresse aux prestataires de services qui travaillent dans un rôle d’accompagnement des personnes trans+ et non-binaires migrantes et réfugiées. Ce guide a été créé grâce aux connaissances et expertises des communautés trans+ et non binaires migrantes et réfugiées. Bien que certaines ressources du guide soient concentrés sur le Québec, la plupart du contenu s'applique aux prestataires de services migrantes et réfugiées partout au Canada.

GRIS Montréal: La transphobie, c’est pas mon genre, guide pédagogique

Le guide pédagogique, La transphobie, c’est pas mon genre, a été créé par GRIS Montréal afin de sensibiliser les jeunes aux réalités des personnes trans et non-binaires. Pour ce faire, ce guide vous aide à explorer avec les élèves et mieux comprendre les notions de genre, d’expression de genre, d’identité ou de modalité de genre. 

 

Le public cible pour ce resource sont les élèves et professionnel.les de l’enseignement secondaire. 

 

Transphobia, Homophobia; Newcomer Perspectives

As a follow up to our webinar "What's Going On in Ontario Schools", hosted in partnership with ACAS, OCASI PSI welcomed three wonderful speakers on March 21 to continue discussing the impact of recent transphobic legislation in several Canadian provinces, and how to support queer/trans people in our communities in the midst of transphobia and homophobia. Allos Abis, Noon Ghunna, and Beverly Bain offer important insights on sociopolitical dynamics between newcomer communities and the far-right effort to garner support for transphobic and homophobic legislation and policies. They also present perspectives that consider the bigger picture of transphobia and homophobia within and surrounding newcomer communities. 

Webinar: What's Going On In Ontario Schools?

This joint OCASI-PSI and ACAS (Asian Community AIDS Services) was held on February 1st 2024 and invited four local experts to discuss and address concerns and disinformation among newcomer and diaspora communities around trans and nonbinary curriculum, policy, and practice in Ontario schools. 

The attached recorded includes presentations from three out of four of the event's speakers, responding to questions, such as: 

How has recent legislation in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick around parental consent impacted Ontario?

What are common myths circulating within newcomer communities around LGBTQIA+ content in schools?

How can we support queer/trans youth in schools as parents/community members?

Why are some parents uncomfortable with gender neutral facilities in schools?

Where does fear/ resistance to inclusive school policies come from?

AGIS: Espace Jeunesse Virtuel

L’espace jeunesse d’interligne offre des services de sensibilisation, d’accompagnement et de soutien aux jeunes LGBTQ+ et au personnel des milieux scolaires et jeunesse. Ce guide inclut une trousse de départ pour guider les jeunes a organisé un programme AGIS (alliances genres, identités et sexualités) dans leurs écoles ou milieux communautaires. 

 

 

No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Making of a New Queer Identity

For reasons of necessity, urgency, and sometimes choice, queer Africans cross borders and find their lives unfolding in diasporic spaces. Refugee claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity persecution make up 12% of all refugee cases in Canada, with queer African refugees constituting the largest group within this category. With this in mind, we now have to ask, “what kind of history will be written about the collision between queer Africans dislocated from post-colonial nations and the Canadian settler nation?” In this study, qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted to explore the individual lived experiences of queer African refugees, with a focus on the intricate realignment of sexual orientation, sexual identity, sexual politics, and sexual desire that inevitably emerges through forced migration and the refugee process in Canada. The deep meaning of life experiences is captured in the participants’ own words, providing detailed, in-depth insights into the complexities of their lives, their reflections, and their subsequent responses.

These narratives call attention to the specific features of queer African refugees, who test the limits of the current homonational refugee apparatus. Participants’ experiences of resisting social roles, structures, identities, and expectations that limit queer African refugees and keep them “in their place,” both in their countries of origin and in Canada, are interrogated. The construction of boundaries that decide who belongs and deserves protection within Canada and who does not provides a foundation for engaging in research as a practice of freedom, in order to counter the global narrative of refugee life that excludes queer Africans.

The findings in this research require us to look at practices of exclusion and inclusion in the Canadian refugee system and the tensions that emerge for queer African claimants. In the end, we are left with strategies for how to engage with the politics of knowledge production and advocate for an agenda of social justice and transformation for queer Africans globally.