Resources

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!

Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

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.

In recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in anti-trans organizing worldwide and in the country colonially known as Canada. This has especially been the case since 2023. Egale Canada identified “nearly 6,500 instances of online hate and protests against the 2S/LGBTQIA+ community in Canada within the first three months of 2023”1 . The purpose of this project was to study this worrying trend so trans communities and our allies may better understand the anti-trans movement and fight back more effectively.

“Trans” is used here to include many distinct identities including 2Spirit as well as trans, non-binary, and gender diverse identities. This usage does not indicate that 2Spirit peoples are defined as part of the trans umbrella: these Indigenous identities are beyond the scope of non-Indigenous understandings of sexuality and gender. Nor does it aim to conflate these identities as one. This guide uses the word “trans” throughout instead of 2S/TNBGD because that makes text more accessible, especially since this acronym is not well known. Please note we still think intentional language is important. We also use trans instead of 2S/TNBGD because, unfortunately, the anti-trans movement is targeting anyone and anything it perceives as trans or transaffirming. Please be advised that the topic covered in this guide is violent and may be triggering. Many participants described their experiences as traumatic. Please prepare yourself mentally and think of self-care you can do while during and after you read.

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GenderFail, A Decade of Queer and Trans Liberatory Writings is an anthology publication featuring 20 essays spanning a decade of work by GenderFail Press. These 324 pages encompass the best of our ongoing work. If you are new to GenderFail this is the perfect publication to start to explore our work.

At the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic we released our first GenderFail Reader. This first edition compiled essays from previously published zines and other written essays by Be Oakley and their partner Yvonne LeBien. In the last three years they have published four volumes of their GenderFail Reader series. This book is a capstone of all four volumes, including essays, artworks and ideas that have helped to formulate GenderFail during the last 10 years of the project. These essays speak to the interests, research and passions that drive GenderFail and highlight the powerful agency behind self and small publishing. Their hope is that these essays inspire you to future actions, dreams, hopes and new worlds that center people and communities fighting for a world without colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism and heteronormative oppression.

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.