Resources List
Crisis Support Hotlines
https://qmunity.ca/mentalhealth/#:~:text=a%20Support%20Group-,Crisis%20Support,-Suicide%20Helpline%3A
Includes info and contact for a 24/7 Suicide helpline, Crisis Services Canada, Trans Lifeline, and Indigenous crisis services (Kuu-Us Crisis Line Society).
Pronouns.org
https://pronouns.org/
What are personal pronouns and why they matter. Resources on personal pronouns.
Trans ID Clinic
https://qmunity.ca/trans-id-clinic/
Provides notarial, administrative, and emotional support to lower-income folks who require assistance with name and gender marker change processes. Services provided include: General Information, Support with form completion, Fingerprinting accompaniment, Notarial support.
Caeneus: The World’s First Trans Hero
https://medium.com/exploring-history/caeneus-257f0f1adf0c
This text discusses the story of Caeneus, who was born female and transformed into a male hero, examining the implications of gender identity in ancient narratives.
The Iphis Incident: Ovid’s Accidental Discovery of Gender Dysphoria
https://www.athensjournals.gr/history/2021-7-2-1-Moore.pdf
This article argues that Ovid inadvertently discovered gender dysphoria through the character of Iphis in Book IX of the Metamorphoses, as the symptoms he describes align closely with modern clinical definitions. It explores how Ovid’s personal experiences may have informed this accidental insight and considers the broader epistemological context of his work in relation to contemporary understandings of the condition.
Queer Glossary
https://qmunity.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Queer-Glossary_2022_Digital.pdf
A dictionary of queer terminology. Appendix includes binary and spectrum gender/sexuality models, and an pronouns chart.
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Gay+Bar%3A+Why+We+Went+OutJeremy+Atherton+Lin&form=OPRTSD&pc=OPER
As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of queer history.
Tiresias: The Blind Prophet
https://mythopedia.com/topics/tiresias
Explores the life of Tiresias, a figure known for his gender transformation and prophetic abilities, offering insights into themes of gender fluidity in mythology.
Hijab Butch Blues
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61111274-hijab-butch-blues
In this daring and provocative memoir, Lamya H, a queer hijabi Muslim immigrant, navigates her coming-of-age by drawing strength from stories in the Quran, particularly identifying with Maryam and her own emerging identity. Through a series of essays, Lamya reflects on her struggles with attraction, belonging, and faith, ultimately embracing her identity as a queer, devout Muslim while seeking community and crafting her own life narrative.
Stone Butch Blues
https://www.lesliefeinberg.net
Stone Butch Blues is an autobiographical novel by Leslie Feinberg. Written from the perspective of stone butch lesbian Jess Goldberg, it intimately details her life in the last half of the 20th century in New York.
Chilliwack Pride
https://www.chilliwackpride.com
Hello! Welcome to Chilliwack Pride! We’re here to celebrate, bring together & uplift our local 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Intersex Community Hub
https://egale.ca/awareness/intersexhub/
The Intersex Community Hub is a space for members to connect with one another, to ask questions to one another, to share lived experience, to feel heard, and to feel empowered. The hub includes spaces for intersex folks only, as well as spaces for parents and caregivers only, and spaces where everyone can connect with one another.
Trans & Enby Opera Directory
https://www.operamodo.com/tnbgddirectory
An online directory of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse opera and classical voice artists.
Qmunity Counselling
https://qmunity.ca/mentalhealth/
This page is a helpful tool for finding mental health resources available at QMUNITY and within your community. On this page: Counselling Services: Self-help Tools, QMUNITY Peer Support Groups to Join, and Crisis Support.
Foundry
https://foundrybc.ca
Foundry makes it easy for young people to find youth-friendly, welcoming and appropriate services – by simply walking into their local Foundry centre, accessing Foundry’s virtual services, or by exploring the tools and resources online at foundrybc.ca. Foundry reaches young people earlier – before their health concerns have a severe impact on their health and well-being.
Beyond Travesti Podcast
https://www.brycemcclendon.com/beyond-travesti
Travesti: (from Italian, ‘travestire,’ meaning to dress up, or to disguise) An operatic tradition where a performer of one gender portrays a character of another. Beyond Travesti is a new series of interviews with transgender and gender-expansive opera and music-theatre professionals about our history, contemporary realities, and visions for the future.
Chosen Family Podcast
https://chosenfamilypodcast.com
With their unique perspectives, the three hosts mimic a typical heteronormative family. Each week they bring a topic to the “dinner table”, give each other advice and answer listener questions about queer life, dating, sex, etc.
“A Comprehensive Guide to Intersex” by Jay Kyle Peterson
https://www.amazon.ca/Comprehensive-Guide-Intersex-Kyle-Petersen/dp/1785926314
This comprehensive yet accessible resource provides readers with everything they need to know about intersex – people who are born with any range of sex characteristics that might not fit typical binary notions about male and female bodies.
“Nobody Needs to Know” by Pidgeon Pagonis
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194623963/pidgeon-pagonis-memoir-nobody-needs-to-know-reclaims-intersex-identity
From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth.
“XOXY: a Memoir” by Kimberly Zieselman
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/XOXY/nhbADwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA11&printsec=frontcover
In XOXY Kimberly Zieselman engages and inspires by sharing the intimate details of her burgeoning awareness at mid-life that she was born intersex, and the incredible journey she has been on to help herself and others.
“Queer Theory and Native Studies” by Andrea Smith
http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/ECS/6662/Thompson/queer.pdf
Online Access; Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism by Andrea Smith
“Disidentifications” by José Esteban Muñoz
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816630158/disidentifications/
Disidentifications: Queers of Color And The Performance of Politics, 1999
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