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How to Communicate Your Feminist Agenda

The digital space wasn’t made by or for us. And although it’s a powerful tool for building our movements – the layered and gendered violence we face in everyday life is vastly amplified online. That’s why communicating your feminist agenda is way more than imparting or exchanging information. It must be grounded in a bottom-up approach, where self and collective care, advocacy, fair pay, and intersectionality, are the medium and the message.

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Exploring Intersex Realities, Myths, and Misconceptions

by Cora Davidson Read in French As we head into 2022, we can agree that our understanding of concepts such as sexual orientation and gender identity has grown substantially, including its’ nature as a spectrum and the multitude of realities and experiences lived by LGBTQ+ individuals. However, when we make mention of “biological sex” and its’ influence on the way it contributes to being assigned to a binary gender (female or male), many still tend to believe sex only encompasses female and male. From a scientific and anthropologic standpoint, this

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Peer Education on SRHR: There’s Always More To Learn.

by Alice Gauntley If you’re a young person who has done any kind of activism on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), you’ve probably had people ask you what that’s like. Maybe you even have some stories ready–funny stories or inspiring stories. I know I do. But I know there are other stories I didn’t always know how to tell, because just thinking about them made me a little embarrassed. I’m talking about times when I realized that, despite all my passion and engagement in SRHR activism, there were

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Statement on Trans Rights in Texas

by Fae Johnstone ” We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the horrendous attack on transgender children and youth by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott “ – Fae Johnstone, Executive Director of Wisdom2Action Gender-Affirming Healthcare is not child abuse; it is in fact life-saving care. Restricting transgender children and youth’s access to gender-affirming care, and threatening parents and other adults who support trans children and youth accessing gender-affirming health, are reprehensible, politically motivated, and hateful acts that fly in the face of human rights

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The Anti-Black Racism Project: Understanding the Roles of Representation and Microaggressions

by Rayan Saied When we aim to tackle anti-Black racism in Canada, bringing to the forefront the realities of systemically ingrained and often subtle oppression so that it can be addressed is an important foundational step. Thanks to funding from our partners Frayme, and working alongside the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, Wisdom2 Action has taken part in this work with the Anti-Black Racism Project. The Anti-Black Racism Project aimed to understand and address the ways that systemic anti-Black racism impacts Black and African youth accessing social services (healthcare, education,

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A Call to Action for Canadian School Boards

A Call to Action for Canadian School Boards: Ambivalence, Silence and Inaction on 2SLGBTQ+ Inclusion is No Longer Tolerable by Fae Johnstone Despite progress over the past two decades, 2SLGBTQ+ students continue to face discrimination and inequality in our schools. In 2021, Egale Canada, Canada’s leading organization for 2SLGBTQI people and issues, released the results of their second climate survey on homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in Canadian schools. Many of us, as adults, and/or as former 2SLGBTQ+ students ourselves, imagine and hope that our schools are substantially safer for 2SLGBTQ+

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How to Communicate Your Feminist Agenda

The digital space wasn’t made by or for us. And although it’s a powerful tool for building our movements – the layered and gendered violence we face in everyday life is vastly amplified online. That’s why communicating your feminist agenda is way more than imparting or exchanging information. It must be grounded in a bottom-up approach, where self and collective care, advocacy, fair pay, and intersectionality, are the medium and the message.

Read More >

Exploring Intersex Realities, Myths, and Misconceptions

by Cora Davidson Read in French As we head into 2022, we can agree that our understanding of concepts such as sexual orientation and gender identity has grown substantially, including its’ nature as a spectrum and the multitude of realities and experiences lived by LGBTQ+ individuals. However, when we make mention of “biological sex” and its’ influence on the way it contributes to being assigned to a binary gender (female or male), many still tend to believe sex only encompasses female and male. From a scientific and anthropologic standpoint, this is far from the truth. The notions we learned of

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Peer Education on SRHR: There’s Always More To Learn.

by Alice Gauntley If you’re a young person who has done any kind of activism on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), you’ve probably had people ask you what that’s like. Maybe you even have some stories ready–funny stories or inspiring stories. I know I do. But I know there are other stories I didn’t always know how to tell, because just thinking about them made me a little embarrassed. I’m talking about times when I realized that, despite all my passion and engagement in SRHR activism, there were still things I just didn’t know. Like the time I

Read More >

Statement on Trans Rights in Texas

by Fae Johnstone ” We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the horrendous attack on transgender children and youth by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott “ – Fae Johnstone, Executive Director of Wisdom2Action Gender-Affirming Healthcare is not child abuse; it is in fact life-saving care. Restricting transgender children and youth’s access to gender-affirming care, and threatening parents and other adults who support trans children and youth accessing gender-affirming health, are reprehensible, politically motivated, and hateful acts that fly in the face of human rights and medical best practice. Governor Abbot and Attorney General Paxton

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The Anti-Black Racism Project: Understanding the Roles of Representation and Microaggressions

by Rayan Saied When we aim to tackle anti-Black racism in Canada, bringing to the forefront the realities of systemically ingrained and often subtle oppression so that it can be addressed is an important foundational step. Thanks to funding from our partners Frayme, and working alongside the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, Wisdom2 Action has taken part in this work with the Anti-Black Racism Project. The Anti-Black Racism Project aimed to understand and address the ways that systemic anti-Black racism impacts Black and African youth accessing social services (healthcare, education, justice system & recreation) across Nova Scotia. With the report

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A Call to Action for Canadian School Boards

A Call to Action for Canadian School Boards: Ambivalence, Silence and Inaction on 2SLGBTQ+ Inclusion is No Longer Tolerable by Fae Johnstone Despite progress over the past two decades, 2SLGBTQ+ students continue to face discrimination and inequality in our schools. In 2021, Egale Canada, Canada’s leading organization for 2SLGBTQI people and issues, released the results of their second climate survey on homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in Canadian schools. Many of us, as adults, and/or as former 2SLGBTQ+ students ourselves, imagine and hope that our schools are substantially safer for 2SLGBTQ+ students than they used to be. Egale found that that

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