Resources

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!

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.