Last Monday, members and allies of the Trans community held a vigil at the Human Rights Memorial for the many around the world that have passed away this past year due to violence and suicide.
Queer
I dress incredibly colourfully as an adult, but once I was afraid to wear anything other than blue, black, grey or white.
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce’s transphobic statements elicit response from Planned Parenthood and Waterloo SHORE Centre.
“How are you protecting me—how are you protecting us? I implore all of you to interrogate your activism: who have you been leaving behind? Who have you failed to hold space for? In your silence and complacency, whose lives have you decided no longer matter?,” writes Shadé Edwards a second-year law student at the University of Ottawa in the common law section.
Students say the university’s mental health resources are lacking all around, but incompetent care affects the safety and well-being of its LGBTQ2+ community a little differently.
Companies consistently take advantage of what’s “in,” whether its body positivity, mental health, or gay rights, and at the end of the day, they are the only ones who profit. The LGBTQ+ community, as with other minority groups, deserve more than a weekend to celebrate their right to exist in the world.
The street was lined with an array of businesses, banks, political parties, and charitable organizations—like the Foundation for Wellness Professionals of Ottawa—all standing in solidarity and support for the promotion of LGBTQ+ rights.
The workshop, which took place on March 4, was hosted by Sam Whittle, a registered social worker and the owner of Venus Envy Ottawa. Whittle is a queer woman herself and has dealt with intimate partner abuse in the past, making it an issue close to her heart.
