Xulyma Community Directory Summer 2023

Xulyma .

Summer 2023

Sexed Up: An Interview with Julia Serano Ascendant Sign Astrology: A NewApproach

Community News, Queer Film Reviews & Which Service to Choose?

Plus: Poetry by Raven John, Vanessa Colantonio, and Connie Quayle

~ Editor’s Note ~ Greetings, dear friends and strangers!

Welcome to the debut of what we hope will prove itself to be a reliable community resource of joy and support.

You will find contained in these pages a directory of community services . Food banks, support groups, shelters, medical clinics and more have been researched collated into a hard copy to allow them to be accessible even when the internet has been shut off.

Additionally, we have tried to bring together diverse offerings of arts and ideas to stimulate and inspire you to find new territories within your thoughts.

Chances are, you are wondering about our name.

Xulyma, (Oo-lay-mah) is a Chinook word which can be translated to mean ‘strange’ or ‘different’.

Chinook Jargon (aka the Jargon, aka the Wawa, aka Chinuk Wawa if you speak the distinct creole form found in Oregon, and aka Lelang if you have some French going on) is a pidgin language from the First Peoples of the west coast whose usage peaked in the 19th Century, and whose range spanned from California to Alaska and as far inland as Montana and Idaho. Thought to have been derived from the language of the Chinook people blended with different indigenous languages and later, European languages and even some Hawaiian, the Jargon served as a trade and diplomacy tongue that brought different peoples together in a region possessing a greater diversity of spoken languages than the entire continent of Europe. Greetings, business, and negotiations could be performed on equal, neutralfooting, with at least one war in recorded history having been avoided due to negotiations between Chinook

speaking members of the opposing sides.

At one time, Chinook was more widely spoken in what we call British Columbia than any other single language.

Early European trappers and traders used Chinook to communicate with the people’s with whom they traded.

In the early days of the city of Vancouver, Chinook was most people’s first language, and it was the primary language of most multi-ethnic environments, such as logging camps and fish canneries, up until the mid-20th century. Today, Chinook is dangerously near extinction, and its role as an intermediary between peoples has been largely replaced by English.

Language defines how we see the world. Concepts that may be expressed in one language may not even exist as an option of expression in another, and the names used for places legitimizes their occupation by the ones who named them. If we are to

We acknowlege the debt of gratitude we owe to the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde of so-called Oregon, Washington, and California, whose historical and ongoing efforts to preserve Chinuk are largely responsible for its continued existence as a living, spoken language today.

Pictured right: The Chinook Phonetic Alphabet as detailed in an excerpt from the 1806 manual "Chinook and Shorthand Rudiments" by the editor of the "Kamloops Wawa" - a Chinook language newspaper in 19th century so-called British Columbia

take decolonization seriously, then we must at the very minimum make an effort to see things differently. In a publication whose primary goal is to bring together diverse groups of people into a community of safety and support, it wouldn’t make sense to continue to define ourselves through the lens of colonizers.

In one sense, Chinook is the unifying language of this land. It is a shared language that does not derive from any one group of people, and which does not give primacy to Colonizers. While we are unlikely to replace English as the primary mode of communication anytime soon, our hope is to hold our Chinook name as an intention. A statement of goodwill, inclusion, and equality. We want people to start thinking about how things could be different in a truly fundamental way.

This publication is for the strange ones. The outsiders.

The people who may feel as

though they are not on equal terms with the status quo.

To be strange or different is to be rare and beautiful and also an incredible opportunity to serve one’s community.

In a strange world full of unknowns, to have strange ones in your midst is to have those who are already in touch with the “unknown”.

If you meet some strange people you are unsure about, you can send your strange people to make contact.

Perhaps their strangeness will see your strangeness, and you will find peace in being strange together.

Our hope is that this publication makes you feel seen and less alone in your strangeness, and for us all to see the strangenesses of others as the unique and beautiful gifts that they are.

- Sabrina Symington, Xulyma Editor, 2023

~ Letters to the Editor ~

PO’D BY HOUSING MYTHS

We’re all tired of the obscene price of housing, but what I’m getting even more tired of is hearing the lie that the solution to our problems is to simply build more housing. How is simply building more units going to alleviate the housing crisis when multi-billion dollar capital investment firms can use their essentially limitless funds to buy up any new homes that are built and sit on them as an “investment”?

By all means, let’s build more homes of the type that we need in the places that need them, but remember, there are currently more empty homes than there are unhoused people! They sit empty because whoever owns them only bought them as an “investment” that is pretty much guaranteed to increase in value regardless of what you do with it – you know, because people need shelter or they’ll f***ing die. Often they can’t even be bothered to rent them out, not that renting them out would do anyone any good since the “value” of said properties is so high

that nobody can afford the rent on them. And, no, mindlessly building more luxury condos that normal people can’t afford will not create a “trickle down” of the wealthy moving into new luxury homes, freeing up their shitty old homes for us peasants to rent. That’s basically all they’ve been doing and property values are still skyhigh – almost as though *somebody* is sitting on all the homes and driving up their value!

Besides, some of us peasants don’t want to rent. Some of us have been renting for enough time to have put a down payment on a reasonably priced home a few times over, and we would like to have a home of our own that isn’t controlled by a landlord who has final say over who we live with, whether we can have pets or a garden, or whether we can smoke in our own homes. It sure would be nice to be able to have an actually attainable goal to save for while also not having our entire incomes eaten up by rent. Y’all

moan about how “nobody wants to work”. Well, I bet people would be motivated to work a lot harder if we actually had something to save up for.

Instead of just, y’know, despair.

But no, we all have to suffer because a handful of ghouls want to get even richer off holding us hostage. Frankly, I don’t care one bit about rich people’s “right” to buy a second or third (or hundreth) “investment” or “vacation” home when so many of us either have no home or a precarious one that drains us of our lifeblood through extortionate rents that we must constantly toil more and more to keep up with. The crisis will only end when housing is no longer treated as a commodity to be bought and sold and speculated upon, but as an essential human right to which free and easy access fosters the overall health of society. I say we treat housing like supper: Nobody gets seconds until everybody gets a plate!

GENDER BINARY OF SINGING IS FAKE NEWS Gendered singing scales are made up!

I am a soprano that can sing classical pieces from the 17th century. I wasn’t asigned female at birth. A normal vocal coach wouldn’t think I ever could.

Mine did. Together we trained. Now I do. Voices are capable of so much and our categorisations are arbitrary and limits people’s potential!

Do you have something burning within you that you need to say in some format other than screaming into the online void?

Write to xulymaeditor@gmail.com and your letter might just be published in our next issue!

Canadian Base Research Centre, have worked long for this recognition, and want to ensure that the voices of those who came before, and fought for 2 Spirit recognition, are remembered and uplifted for their work.

TWO SPIRIT DAY OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED IN BC THE PUSH FOR TWO SPIRIT Written by Coraline Thomas DAY NATIONWIDE

nia of spiritual, ancestral, and medicinal knowledge that was suppressed by settlers for centuries. As we move forward, the resurgence of Two Spirit people represents a great healing to indigenous people, and an opportunity to take back and embrace an identity completely denied by colonial ideologies.

TWO-SPIRIT AND

Written by Coraline Thomas March 20th from now on will be INDIGIQUEER recognized in BC as Two Spirit Day. CIRCLE – NEW OUTREACH Instantiated first in 2022 by the city After a successful launch in Vancouver in 2022, and provincial recof Vancouver, the government of GROUP IN QUEBEC ognition in 2023, Two-Spirit people B.C. has officially recognized the INCREASING VISIBILITY across the country are looking for day. This is a historic moment for official recognition from the federal Written by Coraline Thomas Two-Spirit people in B.C., giving open and recognized support to the government. These calls for recog- Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Circle nition of the day coincide with a Indigenous identity that has been is thefirst province-wide organizalong suppressed by the government steadily increasingly hostile environment for 2SLBGTQ+ folk across tion looking to support 2SLGBTQ and church. Coinciding with the the country, and world at large. This people for Quebec. A 2022 report spring equinox, a time of year fofrom the LGBT+ Family Coalition cusing on renewal, Two-Spirit Day recognition is crucial at a time like gave rise to this group, who look to is a chance to empower Two Spirit this. begin to heal the divide between 2S and indigiqueer people, whether and Indigiqueer people and the rest Two Spirit people are an integral out, in the closet, or unaware of part of Indigenous cultures across of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Kaitheir identity yet. Jesse Dame and ley Karahkwinéhtha Nicholas and Martin Morberg, researchers for the Turtle Island, representing millen- Diane Labelle, both representatives

ister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough, seeks to provide a federal income supplement for disabled low-income working-age people. The new income supplement was modelled after the Guaranteed Income Supplement, seeking to provide similar benefits to those with disabilities.

The bill has passed after receiving 3 of 4 proposed amendments aiming to strengthen it. The remaining amendment sought to prevent private insurance clawbacks, which may lead to said insurance companies taking food from the mouths of disabled people in the pursuit of their continued avarice and greed. The amendment was not adopted due to “concerns over provincial jurisdiction over the regulation of the insurance industry.” Given the nature of private insurance for this group, have companies and their continbeen planning and ued relationships with certain running events for the provinces, Sen. Brent Cotter group since January believed that attempting to when the organization include that amendment would itself opened up. They almost certainly lead to, “an will be working with almighty constitutional fight, Montreal Pride to crewhich Ottawa would assuredly ate events throughout lose.” Why private insurance August 2023, including companies are allowed by the a moment in the spotfederal gov-ernment to take light at Montreal Pride’s advantage of disabled people opening show. for profitis unclear.

BILL C-22 RATIFIED Written by Jenna Charleston

As of June 22nd 2023, Bill C-22 has passed through the Senate and received royal assent, meaning the bill, which focuses on getting some disabled people an income supplement, has become law.

The bill, which was sponsored by the Min-

Despite this, the bill will likely help a great number of people cover the growing costs of living in the coming years and is a well deserved win that some are hailing as a “historic milestone” for the disability advocacy community.

There is now a 12 month deadline to develop the new Act’s regulations.

BC SHELTER ALLOWANCE FINALLY INCREASES

Written by Jenna Charleston For the first time since 2007, the Shelter Allowance for some of those on disability or income assistance is going up from $375 to $500.

Unfortunately this allowance only covers those who do not live in subsidised housing and whose shelter costs are above the current shelter rate.

When asked why the increase doesn’t match the increase in housing prices the province is facing, the Premier indicated they were addressing the issue through several directions, which includes building more social housing and using a grant

ƛ̓ÉXƏTƏM REGIONAL PARK NOW CARRIES Some who are more critical have HƏN̓Q̓ ƏMIN̓ƏM̓ NAME indicated that the increase in program.

allowance, while helpful, is very little and very late, especially given recent cost of living increases. This increase also does not address the rapidly growing issue of homelessness or near homelessness in B.C.’s disabled population.

ANNUAL VANCOUVER QUEER FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS AUGUST 10TH

Written by Coraline Thomas Out On Screen and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival are excited to announce that the festival will be returning this year from August 10th to 20th. Last year 80 films were selected from an estimated 1,500 submissions, and played at venues across Vancouver for ten days. This year promises to be an exciting one. Opening night is at 8:15pm on Thursday, August 11th. Feature films include Bittersweet Becomings, a documentary focusing on a trans woman who comes out in her seventies, Three Headed Beast, a drama about two bisexual people in a nonmonogamous relationship, a centerpiece presentation by Sharon Roggio about the impact of a mistranslation, collections of short films, and so much more.

Running continuously since 1988, the VQFF is a key point of the queer arts community here in Vancouver. Though it has undergone many changes in name, location, direction, the heart of it remains the same; “Illuminating, celebrating, and dvancing queer lives through film, education, and dialogue.”

Check out their website for more information including a full outline of the proceedings.

Written by Coraline Thomas

sis. Nearly 150,000 more renters spend more than 30% of their budget on rent, which is the threshold for unaffordable housing. The rent increase since COVID sees no slowing down compared to previous trends.

The park, whose name means “to be invited”, was officially renamed to honour the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm people, on whose lands the park Rental pricing is also affected sits, and the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm band by the number of people who elders. It is pronounced “tla-hut- cannot afford the astronomum”, and members of the band ical cost of purchasing a house, Safe Supply and say it represents a step towards as they are then forced to rent at Decriminalization is revitalization of the local lansignificantly higher rates.

Saving Lives guage. This is following a trend Without more direct building Written by Jenna Charleston in B.C. for parks, landforms, and from the government, rent conlocations to have their traditional trols and subsidies to developers Despite heavy opposition from names reinstated, or a new one with restrictions on rental price conservatives, the new legislaassigned to them through the lo- there seems little hope of that tion decriminalising personal cal nation. While there are mixed changing. possession of small amounts of feelings about the importance certain hard drugs and the safof renaming, it does represent a The BC government has indicat- er supply program are already definitive step towards respecting ed they are attempting to tackle showing signs of saving lives. and educating people on whose this issue via a number of stratelands they live. gies but only time will tell if their The two pronged plan sought attempts will be successful. to reduce the effects of tainted ̓ƛéxətəm Regional Park covdrugs and aid drug abusers ers 2.6 square acres, containing needing support in coming formany paths, but more imporNew York Judge Rules In ward by removing penalties for tantly one of the few remainFavour of Polyamorous personal use and providing safe ing protected wetlands that are sources of certain drugs.

Relationships crucial to the ecosystem in the Written by Coraline Thomas lower mainlands. The park was Tainted drugs have been a once home to a hospital for the growing concern leading to A new ruling by a New York mentally ill, and a farm for the growing numbers of substance judge declares that polyamorous patients to work at, providing abuse deaths in recent years as relationships deserve all the sustenance to the patients and drug users are reliant on crimworkers as well as financial sup- legal protections and privileges inal groups for their supply, port. The hospital shut down in of two person ones, in a first for leading to various drugs being 2012, the farm in 1983, becom- the country. This court is also cut or mixed in ways that save ing the park we know today over famously known for being the the criminals money while first court to uphold gay marmany years of restoration. harming drug users. riages as constitutional right in 1983. These protections follow An independent analysis is unin a case of tenancy rights for a RENTAL CRISIS IN B.C. derway to determine the efficapolyamorous group surroundTHREATENS OVER 100,000 ing the death of the lease hold- cy of the safe supply program but the Minister of Mental HOUSEHOLDS er. Only in 2020 in Somerville, Health and Addictions Carolyn Written by Jenna Charleston Massachusetts were multiple Bennet has pointed to a CMAY people allowed to be recognized article that has already shown B.C. is one of the most unafford- as ‘domestic partners’, alongside significant benefits to it’s 46 able places to live in the world, the recognition of multiple parparticipants. The participants and this unaffordability is quick- ents beyond two. Polyamorous indicated a reduced use of illicit ly getting worse. relationships are beginning to drugs, decreased overdose risk, see new legal and social support, reduced financial impact and From 2016 to 2021 the rent in as it is slowly untangled from improvements in their health B.C. has increased 30%, and bigamy or polygamy in abusive and well-being. Participants over 100,000 households spend religious situations. Visibility of did note that there were certain more than 50% of their budget polyamory in Canada has likedifficulties with the machines on rent alone, says the Canadian wise been growing, and gaining used to dispense the drugs, and Rental Housing Index census. acceptance, with some wonderthat tying the prescription to This threshold represents what is ing how long will it be before individual machines was a barconsidered a housing cost crisimilar legal protections and rier to use, but appreciated the privileges begin to appear. judgement free process which

It appears staff were not given the opportunity to return people’s personal documents and provide closure and one staff member described the process of being laid off as feeling “punitive”.

other studies have noted is key in helping users overcome addiction.

The coming independent analysis seems set to indicate positive outcomes so conservatives will have less ability to criticise these initiatives going forward.

Victoria Charity Closes Employment Program Written by Jenna Charleston

Our Workplace, an employment program run by the Our Place charity in Victoria has closed its doors with little to no warning, leaving its staff and clients without support.

The charity indicated that funding has been a huge issue for some time and when they ran out of grant money they were unable to keep Our WorkPlace open. Our Place has been relying on donor and grant funding up until now to cover the expenses of Our WorkPlace.

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The program’s former manager called the program a unique, barrier-free resource for people to find help pursuing employment, including many who had been out of the workplace for some time. Although she is disappointed in the way this program has ended, she is considering starting her own non-profit to provide these services to individuals in the area again.

First couple married under B.C.’s same-sex marriage legalization reflect on the past 20 years Written by Jenna Charleston

The married couple, Tom Graff and Antony Porcino felt “Excited, elated, and equal to everyone in our country.” on their wedding day in 2003 and they say that feeling still rings true for them today.

The freedom to feel pride in their relationship and a sense of belonging in wider society have been uplifting for the couple.

Graff indicated that there were

various situations where it was difficult to even mention living with another man 20 years ago.

“It actually was a very physical feeling to me that I no longer had to fight to have my relationship recognized,” said Porcino.

Same-sex marriage has become increasingly normalized since it’s legalization in 2003 and Porcino said that it’s wonderful to know that for the next generation it’s the norm, and that he’s happy future generations won’t have to fight to constantly defend their relationship like he and Graff did.

The couple celebrated their 20 year anniversary at white spot, where the establishment filled up according to Graff. The staff brought them champagne to celebrate the occasion.

“I never thought they would serve champagne at a White Spot,” said Graff.

KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY WAIVES TUITION FOR STUDENTS FROM SEVEN LOCAL NATIONS Written by Coraline Thomas

Members of the Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Musqueam, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and

Kwikwetlem nations will now get ment. to attend KPU, without having to pay tuition. This extends to both current and new students.

LYTTON HAS YET TO SEE The president of KPU says that RECONSTRUCTION this reformation is “fundamental DESPITE DONATIONS to reconciliation.” The UniverWritten by Coraline Thomas sity of Waterloo has also done so for two of the nations local to it’s area. There are calls for other During the 2021 Lytton universities to follow suit. One of Creek fire, the village of the major roadblocks to reconcil- Lytton burned down leaviation is the socioeconomic dis- ing nothing behind but ash. parity between indigenous peo- Two years on, despite hunple and settlers, both through the dreds of millions of dollars difficulty having enough money/ of support, no construction support to go to post secondary or recovery has begun and members of the community education, or even finish high remain displaced or unable school, and through the reduction in opportunities that come to return. with the lower levels of western formal education. Removing one With the leadership having changed hands repeatedly, of the financial barriers goes a long way to increasing education the community has found the task of rebuilding too levels, and building confidence great. Rebuilding is a proand hope in indigenous youth who may have not seen post-sec- cess that needs to start from ondary education as a possibility. the ground up and requires stable and steady leadership, and outside support.

The issue of money, however, is

not the only issue faced by indigenous people in the academic The government agencies system, and many components of and sponsors that have propost secondary schools have re- vided aid have applied signifceived rightful critique. Creating icant bureaucratic pressure to rebuild with net-zero, eco a system of free tuition is only the first step towards reconcilia- friendly goals in mind, but tion, and the matter of recogniz- these only hinder the reconing, recentering, and respecting struction further as these solutions add costs, comindigenous knowledge remains plexity and take significantly at the forefront of this movemore time as they require

a full consideration of infrastructure that the community has only a small amount of control over. However, some light at the end of the tunnel is showing as the Lytton First Nation is finally getting building permits accepted, and work can now begin.

SYILX OKANAGAN PEOPLE MAKE 22ND ANNUAL CANOE JOURNEY ACROSS THE ‘BORDER’ TO THEIR SOUTHERN HOMELANDS Written by Coraline Thomas

Dozens of canoers in 10 boats made the Sukʷnaqin July 4th Canoe Journey from nk’mip to Oroville and back.

This trek challenges the colonial border marker, and traverses the homelands of the sylix people. The pullers, the folk on the canoes, are letting everyone know, including their own people, that these are still their territories, and they continue that connection to this day.

Before embarking offerings of tobacco and prayers were made to the water, the land, and the paddlers, in respect and for safety. This journey also represents a challenge to border politics, which indigenous people are meant to be able to cross freely on their own lands, but many cannot due to a number of circumstances such as misdemeanours, border crossing costs.

This impedes on hunting, fishing, ceremonies, visiting families split by arbitrary border placement. The canoe journey, and those involved, look to continue the tradition forward, paddling until they cannot, and passing it down to the future generations.

GLOBAL LGBT+ SURVEY INDICATES GROWING SUPPORT FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Written by Jenna Charleston According to an Ipsos survey done in 2023 polling opinions from 30 countries

around the world, there continues to be a growing support of trans rights.

75% of people believe that transgender individuals should be protected from discrimination in employment, housing and access to services, while 60% believe that with parental consent, transgender teens should be able to access gender-affirming care.

The study also noted that 9% of adults identify as LGBT+ which also indicates a growing ability for people to be open about their identities.

In spite of the backlash being very prevalent in the news lately, this growing trend of support more realistically represents the world at large.

Though there are growing pains, the situation continues to improve.

NUMBER OF EMPTY HOMES IN VANCOUVER DOWN BY 36%

Written by Jenna Charleston According to the city of Vancouver, the Empty Homes Tax has helped to reduce the number of homes standing vacant by 36% over the past 5 years. As of November 2022 49% of the 1755 homes deemed vacant under the Empty Homes Tax in 2020 have been changed to an occupied status. Hopefully this, along with other measures, will aid the city in providing more affordable housing to residents.

Another option beginning to be discussed, first in the Netherlands but now here, is the idea of limiting the number of home sales to the wealthy. The general idea is to restrict the sale of certain houses, either through zoning, pricing, area, or selection, to only low or medium income buyers. This, in intention, should reduce the amount of properties bought solely for speculation, and increase the amount of homes bought by people who need homes to live in.

Between the Empty Homes Tax, and the regulation against home buying by those who are only looking to invest in real estate, we may finally see an end to the rental crisis here in B.C.

Arctic Security Spending Not Improving ‘Human security’ Written by Sabrina Symington

A report released by a Senate committee on Wednesday states that the $4.9 billion of planned federal spending on arctic infrastructure will not address many of the needs of people living in the region.

The $4.9 billion of spending over six years was announced in early 2022 in order to modernize Canada’s NORAD (North American Aerospace Command) capabilities. Despite the federal government stating that the spending will have “collateral benefits”, the committee found that it will do little to nothing in addressing key issues such as housing, healthcare, and food insecurity.

Arctic military security has become an issue of increasing focus due to Climate Change opening the region to future economic exploitation, as well as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine pulling into focus the real possibility of continued conflicts with Russia, who also holds large amounts of Arctic territory.

With the report stating that the North’s “natural gas resources and rare-earth elements” remain largely inaccessible, the intent of the government’s focus on the issue becomes clear.

Witnesses interviewed for the study stated that it is harmful to view Arctic security as a trade off between “hard security” and “human security”, and the report did call upon the federal government to implement “parallel strategies and investments” to address human needs. But so far, it remains to be seen if the Federal government will heed these warnings, or if it will continue to focus on the militarization and economic exploitation of an under-served region that is also at heightened ecological risk.

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~ The Interview ~

Noted Trans Feminist Author, Julia Serano, answers our questions about gender, sexuality, and her 2022 book, “Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us and How We Can Fight Back” XM: As a prominent thinker on issues surrounding feminism, sexuality and gender studies, I’m sure there’s a lot of readers of your work out there who are just dying to know: What is your favorite dinosaur?

JS: I haven’t thought about the issue in quite a while. But Triceratops was my favourite dinosaur growing up. Being that birds are dinosaurs, I guess they would probably be my favourite current dinosaurs. But my favourite pasttime dinosaurs: Triceratops.

XM: I always ask people that question of what their favourite dinosaur is, because I really do think it helps give a lot of insight into who they are, and what they value in life. And this actually kind of leads me to something you’ve written about before, which is the common accusation that people have towards LGBTQ people, especially trans people and bisexual people, that we are lying about who we are. Why do you think people have such a hard time accepting at face value that somebody could be different from them and how they think they should be?

JS: I think a big problem is that we all come into the world and we learn things or absorb things or internalize things in the culture that we end up taking for granted.

And we believe that that’s just how the world is. And I think that often, when people are confronted by anyone, or anything that seems to challenge their worldview, their first knee jerk reaction often is to assume that this thing are like this, and men are

can’t be real. And so I think that that’s why people who, you know, most of us grow up into worlds that are very heteronormative. And there are these ideas about women like that. And so as soon as someone comes along, who challenges your way of thinking, a lot of times people want to believe that, oh, well, being gay or trans or bisexual, that’s not a real thing, you must really... fill in the blank, and they will always come up with some kind of ulterior motive, or some kind of weird idea they have as to why we are who we are. And it is very endlessly frustrating for those of us who find ourselves in that situation, not just for being gender or sexual minorities, but that can happen for other things.

If you are different from your culture. With regards to your other beliefs, or it happens a lot with religion. A lot of times people assume that people have religious beliefs, or lack thereof that differ from the mainstream, they’ll assume that something must be wrong with you. So I think that this is just a common problem in the world.

XM: A lot of cisgender heterosexual people have this somewhat naive idea, that the whole LGBTQ+ community is one big happy family, and we all get along and support each other. But many of us, especially in the trans community, know from experience that isn’t always the case. And your second book, ‘Excluded’, is about making these different movements and spaces more inclusive.

What were some of the main issues in the community that led you to write that book?

JS: Yeah, so I really kind of came out into queer communities and transgender communities in the early zeros or aughts - I prefer zeros - and over like, kind of my initial years, being in these communities, I found that there are all these strange ‘within the community hierarchies’.

So for example, you know, the one that gets talked about a lot is how basically ‘lesbian’ and ‘gay’ are seen as like being at the top of the pecking order and people who are transgender, bisexual, or other categories, you know, whether you’re asexual or intersex, and so on, like, you know, we’re kind of the letters that are farther down in the acronym. So that’s one dynamic. But I also found that within some transgender communities, there were people who would insist that, you know, people who are kind of genderqueer, or visibly, gender non-conforming, were kind of better, or more transgressive, than say, you know, someone who’s a transsexual, who fits fairly neatly into the binary post-transition, or sometimes some people do it vice versa.

Some people will say, “Well, you know, I’m a REAL transsexual”, or “you’re just merely a transgender”. You know, that kind of stuff. Another issue that I talked about in ‘Whipping Girl’, but I also kind of applied here, was the way in which feminine gender expression within a lot of queer spaces was looked down upon, whereas masculine gender expression was seen as more transgressive and kind of not questioned as much. And so all those things led me in ‘Excluded’ to think about and to try to

come up with answers for why do we always tend to create these hierarchies, and what are some ways that we can prevent that from happening in the future.

XM: in the years since it was published, would you say a lot of progress has been made on this front?

JS: I think that there’s a lot more attention paid nowadays to making these spaces more inclusive, or at least a lot of talk about it. But I still think that the problems still persist. I mean, every single day of my life, especially even days where I don’t even leave my apartment, but I’m on social media, and I will see people expressing their experiences of how they - someone who’s bisexual - just had their identity dismissed by someone who’s gay identified, or, you know, trans people of various types, feeling like their trans identity isn’t taken as seriously as another person’s trans identity. So I think that these problems still exist, I don’t think that they’ve gotten better. But I do think there’s more conversation about trying to make communities more inclusive. But I think that there’s a lot of difficult personal work that we all have to do that’s involved involved in it. One of the ideas that I talked about in ‘Excluded’, and I bring it up in ‘Whipping Girl’, too, a bit, is I talk about “Gender Entitlement”, which is basically the way in which we tend to project our own beliefs about gender and sexuality on to other people. This goes back to what we were saying a couple minutes ago, about how people tend to

hold their own views about gender and sexuality over the way other people experience their own genders and sexualities. And I think that the way, you know, people talk about “let’s shatter the gender binary”, or “overthrow the patriarchy”, and those sound cool, because there are obvious, like, you know, we’re the good guys, they’re the bad guys, type of situations where it’s Gender Entitlement. But I think we all, to a certain degree, have certain expectations and assumptions that we hold people to, but that we probably shouldn’t. And so a lot of the work that we have to do is to kind of challenge the way that we’ve been trained to see the world and to be more truly accepting of difference, rather than just saying, “Oh, yeah, we want our organization to be diverse.” To actually think about, like, how is it that the assumptions and expectations that that we ourselves have might make it more difficult for somebody else to enter the space?

XM: I think this is very common. I sometimes see transgender people who think that people who do not medically transition or take hormones or do surgery or anything, are not “really trans”. But how can they not see that their arguments they’re using are almost the exact same ones that cis-hetero people would use against trans people to invalidate our identities? How can they not see that they’re just making the exact same mistakes and doing the exact same things to other people? It’s very troubling to see that within the community. ~ Cont. ~

JS: Yeah, I definitely agree. Let’s put it this way, as trans activists, we might talk about the gender binary, and how we need to raise awareness about it, and the problems that it creates in people’s lives. And that is a way of carrying out our activism. But I think that there’s a broader problem, which is that I think we live in a culture that, in addition to having gender binaries and patriarchy, has racism, and classism and ableism, and all these different isms. I think there’s also a more general tendency for us to hold double standards where we see and treat people and interpret people differently. And where we tend, because of those double standards, to create hierarchies, where people are always trying to position themselves as being better than other people. And I don’t see any reason why we need any types of hierarchies, or why we need to undermine somebody else in order for us to have a more advantaged position. And I think that that is a more general thing that even a lot of people who are activists still will sometimes, you know, do that and try to claim that either “Oh, I’m more radical than you”, or “I’m more respectable than you”. And I think that it’s really important to adjust these general hierarchies, in addition to challenging all the different isms that that we need to challenge.

XM: One thing that absolutely resonates with me about your work is that you’re not completely on board with this idea that gender is strictly a performance. And instead, you have proposed your own replacement model as a source for gender. What do you think is so attractive to the idea of gender as performance for queer scholars?

JS: Yeah, so, for people out there who maybe aren’t as familiar with it, if you hear the phrases “all gender is drag” or “all gender is performance”, these were really popular queer slogans that came out of the 90s. They are both often attributed to Judith Butler, who never said either those phrases, but Judith Butler did forward an idea of about gender being ‘performative’, which, in her mind, is different from gender is just a performance, and she’s critiqued the idea that gender is just a performance. Her idea of gender being performative just refers to the fact that it’s something that in our interactions with people, it’s always

being cited. You know, like, people will say, “Excuse me, ma’am.” And I’ll turn around, and in a way, I’m basically being brought into a conversation as a gendered subject. But anyway, what kind of ended up permeating a lot of queer communities was the idea that, you know, “all gender is drag”, “all gender is performance”, which I think resonates with a lot of people in that, it kind of implies that gender is just this artificial thing, and if gender is this artificial thing, that means we can do our genders any way, we want to do them.

And I think in the 90s, during the time when that was coming out and going into the zeros, people would throw them around, and it would be self-empowering for some people, but then I had people say to me “Well, I don’t see why you have to transition.

Don’t you understand that gender is just a performance?” So that led me to in some of my writings, and especially in ‘Excluded’ to challenge this idea that gender is just a performance. And I would say instead that what gender is, is it’s this holistic thing. Saying gender is just a performance, is like saying gender is just socialization or gender is just genitals or gender is just, you know, fill in the blank. Like, I think that gender is all those things. I think that’s part of what makes it really, really complicated. We can talk about gender being a performance, but that doesn’t explain why when I was a young child, I inexplicably kind of had this sense that there was something wrong with me being a boy and that I shouldn’t be a girl and I didn’t know where that came from. There’s an inexplicable quality that for a lot of us our genders and sexualities are profoundly held within. And sure, we throughout our lives can experiment with our genders and sexualities, but I think that gender is just this holistic thing of all these, you know, different, intrinsic inclinations that we might have, and then all these social pressures, and how we respond and react to all that. And I also think that with regards to how people like to talk about nature versus nurture, with regards to gender and sexuality, I think it’s very clearly both.

And I think it’s very clearly impossible for us to untangle.

I have no idea why I'm trans. And I'm sure that there is likely some biological aspects to it, and also some social aspects to it. It doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in a world where I was assigned a particular gender, and I was socialized that gender, and that didn't work for me. So there's social things, as well as probably biological things going on. And I think by thinking about if gender is this really complex, holistic thing, then we should embrace the fact that gender diversity will exist, rather than saying to people “Oh, well, don't you know that gender is just a performance.

You don't have to be a transsexual”.

So I think that embracing the fact that people are going to fall all over the map with regards to gender and sexuality allows us to move beyond hierarchies and pecking orders about what genders or sexualities are better or worse, and instead just focus on challenging all forms of sexism, which I would say is any double standard related to a person's sex, gender, sexuality.

XM: People seem to get extremely defensive, though, when you try to give even a partially biological explanation for some behaviour. You're a biologist too, of course. So you may be knowledgeable in this. Why do you think it is that people dislike biological explanations for things?

JS: I think people dislike biological explanations for things because biological explanations are often used by the straight mainstream in order to pathologize us. Being a biologist, biology is very, very complex. And any biologists will tell you that when you're talking about any kind of complex behaviour, that there's going to

be a mixture of biology and socialization and environment that are all coming together. That's kind of a given in biology. However, some people have what might be called, like gender essentialist, or biological determinist arguments to kind of imply that, you know, it's all genes and hormones that basically make men and women so different from each other. And they can use it in a way that basically either erases, or pathologizees people who are atypical or non conforming with regards to their genders and their sexualities. And because people have used biology against us, there are some people within feminism and queer and trans activism, who kind of have a knee jerk negative reaction to raising the idea of biology at all. But I would counter that biology actually creates a lot of diversity. And in that chapter of ‘Excluded’ where I talk about this, I list all the different aspects of biology that are more about creating diversity than are essentialist in nature. But the second thing is that the idea that gender is just all social constructs and socialization has also been used to hurt us. Yes, it's the idea that that gender is all socialization, which is what would lead people like Ken Zucker to carry out “gender reparative” therapies on young gender non-conforming children, or John Mone, who was a psychologist who wayback pioneered the idea of what now is considered horrible,, the idea that gender was all socialization. And so he advocated for, for using non-consensual gender assignment for intersex children to basically deciding what sex category that child was going to live in, without their consent. And that had a lot of horrible ramifications on a lot of people's lives. And so that has been done purely out of the idea that gender is just socialization. So I think if you believe either there's two extremes, you

can create really rigid ways of seeing the world that hurt a lot of people. Whereas if you believe that they come together in an unfathomably complex way to create gender diversity, then all people's gender experiences are valid to certain degree.

And as long as what you're doing isn't impinging on other people, or non-consensually affecting other people, then we should accept the fact that people are going to fall all over the map with regards to gender.

XM: Your new book is “Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back”. How would you explain to a person new to feminism why Sexualization is a topic they should be concerned about?

JS: Sexualization occurs when we non-consensually reduce a person to their real or imagined sexual attributes (their body, behaviors, desires) rather than viewing them as a whole person. So if, out of the blue, I were to start speculating about your sex life or genitals, or accuse you of being a “slut” or “pervert,” it would likely have a delegitimizing or degrading effect on you. In Sexed Up, I explore why this is. While anyone can be sexualized, these efforts disproportionately impact women and other marginalized groups, for reasons I explore in the book. Sexualization is also used to police the consensual activities of all people—for instance, individuals who are imagined to have “too much sex” or “the wrong kind of sex” will often be ridiculed or ostracized.

XM: When speaking on the topic of sex, it’s difficult to avoid the current threat to abortion protections in the United States.

Is the political drive for control over reproduction linked to this process of sexualization?

JS: Expressions of sexualization are often attempts to assert control over other people, either by painting them as “inferior,” or else treating them like “objects” that can be used or exploited. In our patriarchal society, both sexualization and restricting abortion/reproductive healthcare have long been used by men in attempts to control women’s bodies and deny their agency and autonomy.

Similarly, other marginalized groups have faced both sexualization and intrusions on their reproductive autonomy at the hands of the dominant majority.

XM: Is Sexualization at the root of the massive, seemingly irreconcilable divisions we are finding in society today, or a symptom of something deeper?

JS: I don’t think that sexualization is necessarily at the root of societal divisions, although it definitely exacerbates them. I think there are numerous social hierarchies that exist in our culture (sexism, racism, ableism, cis/heterosexism, etc.), and that sexualization is one of many tactics or manifestations through which these hierarchies are enforced.

Some of this may be unconscious, such as our tendency to view marginalized groups as inherently “sexual” or “hypersexual” (which has degrading connotations in our culture). Other times, sexualization is carried out purposefully, such as when it is leveraged in order to exploit or demonize such individuals. So while we should definitely work to end sexualization, it is not the only problem we are facing.

XM: In Chapter 8 of Sexed Up, you highlight the specific ways LGBTQI2S people are sexualized, and how currently our communities are facing a massive attack on our human rights and legal protections under the guise of a moral panic of sexual predation that is similar to attacks on other marginalized groups in the past. What can our communities today learn from these other groups’ past struggles?

JS: When I first encountered claims that trans people are supposedly “bathroom predators,” or more recently “groomers,” my first inclination was to provide evidence demonstrating that these are merely stereotypes that are not based in reality. While there is nothing wrong with pointing this out, it’s important to realize that people who are swept up in moral panics aren’t really driven by evidence, but rather by a “gut feeling” that the minority in question represents a threat. By educating the public about the long history of marginalized groups (whether LGBTQI2S, people of color, people with disabilities, non-Christians, immigrants, etc.) being falsely accused of constituting a sexual threat to women and children, we can help people recognize this recurring pattern, so hopefully they will dismiss these sorts of claims as prejudiced when they inevitably occur again in the future. Furthermore, for those of us who belong to communities

"Sexualization occurs when we non consensually reduce a person to their real or imagined sexual attributes (their body, behaviors, desires) rather than viewing them as a whole person."

that are smeared as “sexually predators,” recognizing that this trope also negatively impacts other marginalized groups provides further impetus for us to support one another and be intersectional in our activism.

XM: I have certainly found that in my experience, offering fact-based rebuttals to emotion driven prejudices seems to be rather ineffective. Have there been instances where you’ve seen a person change their mind about believing LGBTQ people to be a danger?

JS: I have witnessed people change their mind about this, but it’s usually through getting to personally know LGBTQ people. It’s hard to hold onto such egregious stereotypes if you have LGBTQ people in your life. The problem is, the most bigoted people typically refuse to allow such connections to take place—they’ll often try to ostracize us from their communities and/or avoid settings where we are likely be. It’s also worth mentioning that, while fact-based rebuttals are unlikely to work on these individuals, they can sometimes be useful in swaying people who are largely LGBTQ unaware or unsure what to think.

You can buy "Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us and How We Can Fight Back" and Julia's other books anywhere fine books are sold.

~ The Reviews Pages ~ Outraged? No, Outrageous, Darling!

A Review and a Trans Reminiscence

By Josie Boyce It is not too outrageous to say that, in the midlate 70’s, Craig Russell was one of the most famous Canadians, and one of the most famous female impersonators in the world.

The films he is famous for are often conflated with his real life (the character is based on him, but loosely).’Outrageous’ and its sequel, ‘Too Outrageous’, offer a glimpse into how confusing gender and sexuality can be, given the way cis/het normativity is shoved down our throats, to use a well trod phrase more properly.

Canadian ‘Female Impersonator’, Craig Russell etc. There were few more successful and famous people doing Female Impersonation than Craig at the height of his fame in the few years after the thinly based on his own life film called ‘Outrageous’ open in 1977 and became one of the biggest Canadian, let alone done with gay and disability issues at the fore of the story.

few times at least, just by chance - chance I took as fate, if I am being honest.

All this to talk about revisiting this film that I hold as a grail of my youthful dreams, and not without some trepidation that my nostalgia was likely very rose coloured, as I recalled also nostalgically on some level, how Russell’s career floundered for the usual reasons of alcohol, drugs, sex, and the unresolved trauma that likely led to those other things taking over his life.

“As a closeted not quite grokking Why I am writing about about Russell and Outrageous has entirely to do with my own myself teen and journey to understanding of my own gender variance. young adult, Craig’s As a trans kid without any lingo that wasn’t Female Impressionthe kind of insult word that I would have gotThroughout my life, I was entirely desirous ten in trouble for saying, I had no way to really ism, and flamboyant of a stereotypical feminine presentation that even discuss who I knew I ‘really was’, and, to but unabashed, and had been brainwashed into me by society and my ongoing shock, no one ever saw through hetero normative standards that I could never my pretending to be a boy. Russell, who I mostly achieve. Being Gen X, coming out meant getalready knew of before Outrageous from his ting kicked out of the house when I was a kid. TV appearances on either of the two, and later ‘unbashed’ lifestyle I was very aware of how people saw trans folks on maybe half dozen TV channels we had in - back then called nothing but slurs, some the late 70’s, gave me a brief reprieve from the was an appealing worse than others. I don’t even need to write gender desert I inhabited. hedge against the them out for them to already be resounding in your mind as you read this: sissy, faggot, Outrageous puts a real humanity (that I could ideal of an actual queer, nancyboy, etc et al, que Cera Michael grok even with my lack of self understanding) transsexual f@*king Cera. It’s just how you learned to on to this person (Russell, as Robin Turnf@*king think of yourself. er) who, unlike me, could become, if only transition.” for a song or dance or two, the woman they The history of my own self awareness is filtered through pop(sub)culture of my 57 odd years. From Mr. Dressup, The Friendly Giant, Bugs Bunny, Flip Wilson’s dragsona ‘Geraldine’, to songs like ‘Walk on the Wild Side’, ‘Lola’, musicians who trod on gender norms from Bowie to Adam Ant, and even Grace Jones.

There was one Canadian icon I glommed onto, though. Kind of forgotten, unless you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ Gen X or Boomer, but at one time (the late 70’s) as famous a Canadian entertainer as there was. I mean, okay, maybe not Anne Murray famous, but as close to that as any Canadian female impersonator not named Wayne or Shuster.

Craig Russell was a chubby vocal female impressionist who dressed as the couple dozen different women (mostly, he did do Louis Armstrong’s voice and a few other male voices) whom he impersonated singing, speaking, and doing whatever patter they were famous for. Mae West, Carol Channing, Judy and Liza,

dreamed they could be.

It was, to understate it greatly, an eye opening experience when I first saw it (probably on TV whenever it first aired in Canada after its theatrical run). But just a year or maybe a few after its debut, I was in the distressing throes of male puberty, and really just beginning to see what a difficult thing it would be to come out. Too difficult for me.

So this became one of my secret movies that I watched after whatever kids I was babysitting went to bed. I had a taped-from-TV copy on VHS I sometimes used, mostly at home. But it was on late night often enough that I saw it a

Indeed, I was a fan of Russell’s before and after seeing Outrageous, but I only ever saw him on TV, on talk shows, telethons, etc. He was someone who, despite being traditionally married, was living some kind of female life, even if mostly on stage. There were very few role models, real people, that I could find as a teen in semi rural New Brunswick, Canada. Craig Russell and his Ladies on Alan Hamel was as good as it got unless Sweet Jane or Lola was playing on the radio.

The movie itself holds up as a very human portrayal of one of us, playing one of us, a variant of himself, perhaps, in the current patois.

I did not remember much of the loose plot of both Craig Russell’s Robin, and Liza (played by Hollis McLaren) trying to live their best lives - Robin’s story being an unlikely path to stardom via drag and doing impressions of iconic women like Mae West, Carol Canning and so on. The impressions were what set Russell apart from the vast majority of drag queens, or even many of those like him who preferred ‘female impressionist’ to drag.

~ The Reviews Pages ~ In those days, drag was not the mainstream thing it is today. I mean, there wasn’t drag story hour to pearl clutch over, to start with!

A major plot point is Robin getting fired from his hairdresser job - not because he is gay, but because he is a drag queen. Fired by his gay boss.

every show. Not because it was lip synch, but because he actually sang and spoke every bit. No lip synch, but the film implies as such.

In my own youth I remember that no where I worked ever felt safe to come out as gay, bi, or any kind of gender variance, from what at the time would have been called ‘Transsexual’, or Tranny, other less pleasant derivatives of that. In the male culture, I was constantly confused to have to take part in the only thing worse than being a woman was being a femme guy. As a closeted not quite grokking myself teen and young adult, Craig’s Female Impressionism, and flamboyant but unabashed, and mostly ‘unbashed’ lifestyle was an appealing hedge against the ideal of an actual transsexual transition. Something that seemed impossible, but now is my reality.

The mentally ill bestie manic dream girl is problematic in it’s portrayal today maybe, but the institutional attitudes are still pretty similar, if more polite in their vocabulary.

It also resonates with my own experience of the women allies I have had in my own queer journey, who as a bi trans person, I often had confusing relationships with, like Craig and his actual wife, and the woman who wrote the original story (Margaret Gibson) that Outrageous is based on, Craig and her own very familiar to many queer folks who are able to find a community.

“I had the privilege to take my time and find myself and am honoured by the trails blazed by Craig Russell and The film itself is clunky and not terribly well shot, with occasionally cringey dialogue, but all the Queens, Trannies, and Sissies, it shines in its 70’s Toronto/NYC locations, and a game ensemble of players whose charms female impersonators of the past.” elevate the whole thing. The bad sound sync does no favours to Craig Russell’s Ladies, as he called his stable of 25 or so impressions he did

So, revisiting this film, as well as reading a recent biography of Russell and watching some YouTube clips of some of his often snarky (and drunk) TV talk show appearances, what I realize, if still through some rosy glasses, is that all our heroes are problematic, but that we can still hold on to what they instilled in our hearts, and to the memory of when that happened in our lives. Their path was their path, while yours had a window onto theirs, but only a window.

It’s also nice to revisit the youthful idealism of a kitchen sink ‘Let’s make it in Show Bizness’ trope with some queer twists and turns. Russell’s life ended much more tragically than his movie counterpart, maybe just when he was just starting to really find his own true self without the safety of Speaking through his Ladies, as he called his impression subjects.

I had the privilege to take my time and find myself and am honoured by the trails blazed by Craig Russell and all the Queens, Trannies, and Sissies, female impersonators of the past. I wish a new Physical release could happen for this important film in Canadian Queer culture. There is a lot of material out there of interviews, concerts and more of Craig’s journey that would be great to preserve on a blu Ray/ DVD. Outrageous is on *Free internet streamers Pluto.tv, and Tubi.tv. Physical media copies are hard to find for a reasonable price as it has not been in print recently, and is unlikely to be rereleased.

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Revolutionary Rest

By Mars Gravididas Taurus Rising

faces, all of the ways you present yourself to the world will appreciate some attention in August. Edit your CV, upload a new selfie, rinse your locs with perfumes. Do You’ve been going through big life changes in the last all the things that make you feel shiny! These kinds couple of years and you have an opportunity from of aesthetic care practices can feel deeply grounding August to January to just relax and let things run their because when Venus goes direct on September 4th you course. With Venus in your 4th house, August will will find yourself wanting to be seen and to generously have you looking very directly at what you value most about your home. How can domestic bliss support your share the self love you have invested. Prepare for enjoying yourself, factor it into your life as a necessity during journey of transformation? Investing in a comfortable this time. Mercury’s retrograde from August 24th-Sepfoundation where you feel free to express yourself and tember 8th is a great time to look over your transaction appreciate your own beauty will feel necessary. Being able to support yourself in this private space will make a history and spending habits. Set aside some time for difference in how you think about how your community a perfunctory review, paying special attention to how much your work life costs to maintain. If you have been supports your creative life. Who do you want to be in your community long term? How does your perspective making any changes in your career, taking this moment of your role in the world affect the things you create, the to assess resource management can bring clarity to your ways you play, the people you fall in love with. October goals. will bring questions of how your work life affects who you want to be. Do you need to compartmentalize or Virgo Rising make adjustments necessary for growth? Things come to a head for you on October 28th with the Full Moon Saturn and Neptune’s long transits through your 7th in Taurus and Partial Lunar Eclipse. When it's time to house of relationship have brought attention to your reveal your intentions and put a piece on the board. closest partnerships. For the next 2 years Saturn will The need to initiate partnerships or collaborations may test the foundations of your friendships and the people come as a sudden realization. you want to invest in for the next phase in your life.

This transit shows who can go the long haul with you, and the ways that you might need to change in order Gemini Rising to maintain healthy lifelong relationships. Neptune’s retrograde has asked you to address any illusions you Pluto retrogrades back into your 8th house, its native have nurtured about being in relationship with others. house of sex, transformation and shared resources until Neptune seeks clarity and unconditional love. Approach October 11th. The planet and house of things we cannot your connections this way because the words you say do alone, things that require another person's cooperaand how you talk about yourself in relation to others tion. The ways we need each other. The ways we need to during August and September will have a lasting effect. be alone because people move us so deeply. For the last Radical kindness and forgiveness will go much farther decade you have gone on a private journey to learn the than you can imagine at the moment. You might have a bittersweet taste of being torn asunder by the passion lot to say and people might have some things to say to of life. The rest of this year is giving you an opportunity you! Gently allow space for yourself and others to to make sense of all those lessons. It's a great time to let air out feelings and remember this time will pass. The go of any lingering heavy feelings from the last phase in New Moon in Virgo on September 14th will bring your life. Doing so in a playful manner accepts that joy clarity from an inner place. Then Venus’ transit through soothes grief. Dream big! Dance freely! Free association Virgo from October 10th to November 9th will bring a is a great way to synthesize information, things that felt feeling of peace, this will be a wonderful time to invest inaccessible before will burst out of you. From August in appreciating your own beauty. to early November a lot of supportive energy is available to ground your emotional body. Communication and Libra Rising organization in the home will reveal how your belief systems affect your long term goals. What narratives August and September sees a lot of activity in Virgo, about your path have you accepted? Siblings, neighyour 12th house of the unconscious. In general you bours and community member type relationships will might feel a bit foggy, like things that are hardto put a reappear in your life in August bringing reminders of finger on are moving around inside of you, feelings you the need to value your inner life. forgot you had. Your sleep cycle is likely to be affected, feeling fatigued or can’t sleep or having vivid dreams.

Cancer Rising You may want to escape into fantasies, romance or substances. Anything that you interact with in an addictive The crab shell protects! Yet the bosom longs for intimaway might get activated during this time. Whether it's cy. Oh, the perils of the tender heart of Cancer! Pluto’s working out, watching tv or coffee you might feel a decade-long transit through your 7th house of relacompulsive need to distract yourself. The healthiest way tionships has been a journey of how to manage safety to deal with that energy is to lean into a bit. Allow yourand the search for closeness. Many things have been self to get distracted in a fun way, watch movies, make learned! Some joyously, some with pain. How do you Aries Rising art, make love. Whatever you indulge in remembering manage your need for integration with the world now? to care for your private self is an ideal way to keep These feelings will get activated in August through MerAugust brings the need to address how your creative you grounded during this time. Small habits related cury in your 3rd house opposing Neptune and Saturn. and romantic life both strengthens and brings conflict to your sleep like writing down your dreams, doing a to your investments and money. Sometimes sensuality is Any sense of isolation can dissipate by opening yourself solid bedtime ritual and keeping your room clean and worth spending on. Indulge, while being careful not to to connecting with your local community. Instead of let- tidy will be the easiest way to feel like you have a solid use this as a way to distract yourself from the confusion ting all the activity in Virgo bring out a pessimistic side, foundation. harness that energy and literally count your blessings. felt by the retrogrades. Because Mercury in Virgo will have everyone letting their critical natures out. It will be Take a pen and paper and make a list of accessible out- Scorpio Rising ings that you can go to. Talk to a neighbor, go to a coffee important for you to give yourself and the people you shop or sit in the park. Focusing on having these light work with a lot of grace until September. Peo ple will daily interactions will actually make more space to feel Venus retrograde in Leo, your 10th house of career forget things, and the consequences and responsibility might unfairly fall on your lap. Be careful how you react out the big feelings you’ve been having about deep per- and goals, is the climax of an eight year cycle. Success sonal relationships and commitments. Venus’ activity in and blessings are coming your way! Relax, take it slow because it is likely that you will also forget something your 2nd house will bring attention to how you budget and ready yourself to receive. You have worked hard important. Practicing radical forgiveness of yourself for a long time. Get ready to enjoy and show off your for networking. You might want to splurge in August and others, especially for the little things will be the progress! The activity in Virgo will give you energy to on going out, or you could realize that you need to keep unexpected path to addressing unconscious blockages. network. Spend August giving your work a final shine a tighter budget.

Thinking ahead and planning for fun Instead of getting bothered by life's inconveniences, let and making a list of people who you want to connect will save your bank balance. yourself take naps, meditate, take peaceful walks, or with. Then start sending out those messages when smoke 'em if you got' em. Let go of the need for perfecVenus and Mercury go direct on September 4th and 8th.

Leo Rising tion in your work life and reassess organization habits Be proud of what you have built, and get ready for the and communication styles. This mercy will allow you The New Moon in Leo on August 16th is a great day to next cycle by sharing your work. This excitement can into focus on what's really important. What healing do spire you to have some feelings about public displays of you need to freely initiate your selfhood and fully allow surrender to valuing yourself. Planning a self care ritual affection, you might surprise yourself. Celebrating your will set a loving tone for Venus’ retrograde through your yourself to show up in the world? Seeing the rest of the 1st house. Exfoliate, masks, lotions, the whole deal, the achievements will help you use the energy available on transits through this perspective and centering your November 4th when Saturn goes direct to initiate best thing you can do is pamper your face! All of your own progress will alleviate any pressure.

We are at the heart of an extended season of retrogrades. Do not fear retrogrades, do not fear the calm of certainty. When a planet retrogrades it takes time to review its progress, test what it has learned and rest before continuing on a new phase of direction. Rest is essential for creativity, let the pot simmer, let your dreams tell you, follow playful distractions until you happen upon an essential truth. When we resist resting and reflection the chaos commonly associated with retrogrades will take over our lives. Any amount of trying to force yourself or other people fails spectacularly. Going with the flow of retrograde cycles reveals a time to receive gifts. The fruits of your own labors have ripened. It is time to eat the banquet! Drink the wine! And embody the sublime laziness of a peaceful summer afternoon.

Certain in its own abundance. Capitalism does not ever let us rest or taste the products of our labor. Forced by threats of violence to an inhuman pace, never stopping long enough to fully appreciate our dreams, gifts and affinities. We need to rest! To stop and look at the stars, and smell the flowers, to let our senses come back to us after periods of focus. Because that is the pace that the world flows. And we are part of the world. Some gifts we have readied for ourselves taste of grief. To weep for that which has given you joy! Soft bittersweet tears. Do you have time to cry? Accepting your own pace is a radical act. What do you need from this period of respite?

Look within or just take a long nap! Because Saturn and Neptune retrograde in Pisces is gonna make us all a little sleepy. Why fight it? Things will feel personal as inner planets Mercury and Venus join the retrograde party. On July 23rd and 24th Venus and Chiron retrograde in Leo and Aries. This fire trine asks us to reflect on what healing we need to fully value our self expression. Mercury in Virgo and Uranus in Taurus join Pluto in Capricorn on August 24th and 28th for a grand trine of retrogrades. The earth signs host the planet of the mind, Mercury, and the outer planets associated with transformation, Uranus and Pluto. This gives us an opportunity to take a radical look at how we shape our lives through our rituals, investments and goals.

On September 4th and 8th Venus and Mercury will go direct, transitioning out of their retrograde cycles. Jupiter retrograding in Taurus, on September 5th, will feel like a passing of the baton. Now all the inner planets are moving direct and all the outer planets are retrograding.

Outer planets represent forces outside of ourselves, the world at large. Even though we will feel more fluid in our autonomy, now that the inner planets are moving forward, the world will still move at a slow pace until October 11th and November 4th when Pluto and Saturn go direct. While the knot of the retrograde season unravels through the outer planets, we have a chance to question how we see our place in the world. Mars is the only planet that does not retrograde this year, giving us an even pace while we navigate this season of rest.

the next big project in your life. Allowing yourself to commit to bringing a passionate dream into reality can come with some big feelings. Remember what you have learned from the last cycle and factor your needs into this new phase of endeavours.

Sagittarius Rising This retrograde season brings a spotlight to your career and goals. Have you been wanting to apply for a new job, a grant, a promotion? Use the retrograde energy in August to do some research, preparations and final edits. You have taught yourself many things about what is of value and now it is affecting your attitude about work. Get ready to make big changes in your daily life. Find things that you can integrate into your routine that will make a lasting change in your direction. September brings energy for initiating your plans, it's time to send out that application! Then spend October smoothly making new connections. All this excitement can have you neglecting your home life a bit. Showing care to grounding your foundation will give you lasting momentum for maintaining this new direction you are trying to build. Create a reliable space and allow yourself to explore your need to unwind in a peaceful environment. Saturn going direct on November 4th will bring clarity to what you need to feel solid.

The November 27th Full Moon in Gemini, activates your house of relationship. The stability you feel at home will correlate to how you experience the need to initiate partnership during this event.

Capricorn Rising Pluto’s long transit through your 1st house of self has been a journey of total transformation. Both blessings and incredible losses have taught you about resilience. It's time to revisit these lessons and tie up loose ends until October 11th when Pluto goes direct. This phase of your life is almost over, what do you want to do with the power of spirit you have gained? How have you shaped yourself and who do you want to invest in being on your path forward? Past romances, lovers and the memory of those experiences will get activated in August by Venus. This transit brings culmination to a journey to know your desires to connect deeply with others. Does the way you give yourself in intimate relationships come in conflict with what you want to create? Set aside time for looking within and give yourself permission to have big ideas. Allow for other people's opinions to surprise you and your personal philosophy to come into question.

It’s healthy to take a critical look at how we see the world, and sometimes people can help us do that.

Show grace in your communications and you will receive many new helpful concepts. Then relax into the beginning of a new phase in September with the inner planets moving direct.

Aquarius Rising Material give and take! You might be asked to give, and you might need to ask. Asking for others to help you fulfill your need is a divine act. Understanding boundaries, your own and others and believing in the abundance of life will be asked of you. When you give to another, you are also giving yourself confirmation of the generosity of the world by enacting it. When you ask of another, you pray to the world to show you its divine spirit.

That's really the meaning of the saying “What goes around comes around”. Eventually, everyone needs to ask. For some people this energy will come up in their sex life, with the give and take of their bodies.

Giving generously without expectation of return will be questioned regardless of where it manifests.

Neptune is in play, and with its influence it's easy to sacrifice ourselves or project our perspective on other people. Just remember that everyone has limits, even yourself. Venus’ retrograde through August in your 7th house of relationships will inspire you to invest in the people you value most. Sharing your home space with friends and partners for gatherings can help you feel expansive. However

you invite people into your life during this time remember to give you self space and the option to choose a moment of solitude and reflection whenever you need it.

Pisces Rising Neptune asks you to address how you channel the energy in your body. Does your sensitivity overwhelm you at times?

What are the rituals you have to release?

Practicing meditative activities will go a long way to ground you. Long baths, drawing, or even just watching the sunset for a moment. Taking time to engage in these reminders to come back to yourself during August through October will help you navigate all the activity in Virgo, your 7th house of relationships. Your social life will feel very alive during this time and it can be easy to forget yourself when people are very present in your mind. The Full Moon in Pisces on August 30 has great energy for you to bring these parts of your life together, it's a wonderful day to do a calming activity with people you love. You know that you can enjoy these moments of excitement with others even more if you have given yourself some internal space to breathe. Learning to share that wisdom with the people in your life can bring you closer together. Saturn going direct on November 4th will give confirmation to questions about your direction, it's time to listen to what your body is telling you and commit to building the life you want.

Dear Pepper and Pearl,

realizing she wants you all to herself more than she thought!]

I’m a bisexual trans woman that has recently started dating two women at the same time.

Although the first girl (I’ll call her Alice here for anonymity) I was dating seemed ok with opening things up to me dating the other girl (Luna), she has seemed far more hesitant about it since then, and has been switching between hot and cold with me.

Even if at first she seemed enthusiastic and on-board, feelings can’t be ignored. If she’s worried about losing you she may be trying to tough it out and not let those feelings loose, but they come out one way or “Dating advice with sugar & spice.” another. [Like when she’s all over Luna, and when she’s hot and cold with you!]

One minute Alice is all over me and can’t get enough, the next minute she’s avoiding It sounds like you’re going to need to sit my touch, pulling away and seeming on the down and have a big conversation with verge of crying. Luna has been calm about the Alice about how you feel, but more imwhole thing, maybe because she’s been portantly, about how she feels about you polyamorous for a number of years already. dating Luna. You’ll need to start by reassuring her that she’s perfectly allowed On the occasions they have met, they’ve to feel jealousy and discomfort with seemed to get along very well, but Alice has things (it’s a common trap people fall been all over Luna and avoided me, and then into thinking that jealousy doesn’t exist afterwards been all over me, before switching in polyamoury) and that you want her to back to being distant and cold. voice that [You’ve gotta let her speak her piece!]. Speak with her about what It hurts a little seeing her be so friendly with things you could do to make her more Luna while I’m around because it makes me comfortable and happier about things. Be feel like a third wheel, but I also kind of hope honest and clear about how you feel [tell that if they got together too, things could her how much you love her and want maybe be a little more stable. her!], and what’s the most important thing to you! Keep in mind that poly is a I don’t know what to do. Please help! complicated path and Alice may not be someone who’s ready or willing to actualGinger ly be polyamorous now that the cards are If you’re lucky enough, things may work I hope you can see your way through this on the table [it’s tough, but sometimes out in your favour and Alice and Luna in a way that doesn’t hurt anyone because Dear Ginger, will be open to dating one another as being poly can mean even more love in things just don’t work out the way well, but that conversation is even more your life and the wonders of compersion we want…].

So, it sounds like you’re quite new to the important then! [You can’t let those [where you feel good because your world of polyamoury, which is great! feelings fester or they’ll come back partner feels good!] and polycules can We’ve all gotta start somewhere! and haunt you.] Understanding, recbe a wonderful source of support in diffiognizing and dealing with moments of cult times.

[It’s tough, but it can be wonderful!] jealousy in a calm, open and accepting It does sound like you might have stumbled way is extremely important. Jealousy and Much love and hope into one of the more difficult aspects of poly envy are a part of being human after all!

It’s a good idea going into a conversation though. I think a lot of newcomers think it’s [which is why I don’t suffer from Pepper & [Pearl] like that with knowing what your desires easier than monogamy because there are less and boundaries are in this situation. If you them, haha!] restrictions, but that’s a common misconcepare not willing to give up polyamoury then tion. Poly involves way more effort and often far more complex sets of restrictions than mo- you need to recognize that may mean the nogamy does because the key to making it work relationship with Alice is set up for failure [it’ll be sad, but sometimes you’ve is that everyone is comfortable [comfortable doesn’t mean you can’t feel negative things gotta tearfully move on]. If you are sometimes!] with what’s going on, and the key willing to return to monogamy with Alice, that will mean the end of the relationship to that, is communication! with Luna [if she’s been in the poly community a while, she’ll understand, Alice is probably feeling a lot of jealousy and but she’ll still be sad]. These are difhurt knowing that you have feelings for Luna ficult and intense questions and it will be and that you are choosing to spend time with extremely important to know what you her. [if she really likes you, she might be want!

Do you have a dating, romance, gender, or sexuality querie that can only be solved by a pair of sassy muppets?

E-mail pepperandpearldating@gmail.com and you may receive an answer to your woes in our next print issue!

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907-521-2949

907-420-0585

907-252-6368

867-667-6491

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907-373-5807

800-728-7825

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907.373.9050

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Salvation Army Sitka Corps

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907-745-3271

867-993-5507

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(413) 283-3330 United Way

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Choosing Our Roots

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(907) 376-5913 Community

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907-745-2634

Trans Lifeline

907-262-3111

907-861-1400 Co-Occurring Disorders Institute

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867-994-2684

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867-689-4844

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Geraldine Van Bibber

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Yvonne Clarke

867-668-4353

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(867) 667-6401

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867-668-7911

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867-667-4606 Government Brad Cathers

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867-668-2552 Mental Health

Kate White

Trailhead Integrated Health

(867) 667-6401

867-668-2612

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867-667-3668

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Cariboo Gender Support Network

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Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre

Assn of Yukon Communities

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867-668-4388

Canim Lake Band

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867-667-3668

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867-667-2003 Government Ranj Pillai

(867) 667-6401

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867-667-2693 Safety Northern Focus Counselling & Support Services

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867-393-2265

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867-667-3668

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Skookum Jim Friendship Centre

Jeanie McLean

(867) 667-6401

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Whitehorse -Whistle (250) 395-4010 Bend Mental Health Food Bc Mental Whitehorse Food Bank

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250-395-5548 Library

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Skookum Jim Friendship Centre

Whistle Bend Care Facility

Cariboo Regional District Library

867-667-9300

250-992-7912

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Canadian Mental Health Association Yukon

100 Mile Community Hall

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867-457-0080 Library Whitehorse Public Library

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867-667-7429

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867-668-6429 Library Whitehorse Public Library

867-667-3668

Women's Transition Home

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867-668-5733

867-393-2824

Boys & Girls Club of Yukon

250-791-6283 Government

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(604) 504-7145 Mental Health Mental Health Centre

604-870-7800 Library Fraser Valley Regional Library

604-859-7141 Community Archway Community Services

604-859-7681

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604-852-9305

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

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Westcoast Stress & Trauma Clinic

Hon. Katrina Chen

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Mental Health Bc Burnaby Mental Health Svc

604-453-1900 Library

604.876.3601

Burnaby Public Library

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604-436-5427

Dixon Transition Society

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604-298-3454

Edmonds Community Centre

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604-297-4838

Modern Therapy

Government Hon. Raj Chouhan

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(604) 294-8540 Mental Health Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction

604-675-3950

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Foundry Abbotsford

604-436-5427

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BC Care Providers Association

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604-327-2702 Safety No Fear CounsellingNorth Burnaby

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(778) 999-9966 Mental Health Elumind Centres For Brain Excellence

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604-684-5307 Janet Routledge

Parents/Guardia ns (of Trans* Youth)

604-294-7944

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Spirit of the Children Society

Chilliwack Salvation Army Chilliwack

604-792-0311 HealthCare Highgate Medical Clinic

Government

(604) 777-9101

Hon. Anne Kang

Mental Health

Burnaby Edmonds

Developmental Disabilities Mental Health Services

I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.

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Community

604-736-4233

Burnaby North

Support

Library

Safety

Fraser Valley Youth Society

604-297-4526

(604) 564-8555

Abbotsford (Matsqui) Medical Clinic Food

604-525-0999

Michael de Jong, Q.C.

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Dawson Medical Clinic

Burnaby Deer Lake

604-436-5427

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Lorne Doerkson

250-395-2434

604.876.3601 Shelter

604-853-2281

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(867) 667-6401

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867-393-2265

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867-456-8252

Arctic Institute of CommunityBased Research

Skookum Jim Friendship Centre

100 Mile House Food Bank Society

867-334-9524

876-465-6556

867-668-5733

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Indigenous

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South Food

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ElderActive Recreation Association

867-667-3668

100 Mile House

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867-668-4058

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Whitehorse Public Library

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Whitehorse - Porter Creek North Food

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Library

British Columbia

Tranquil Pathways Whitehorse Riverdale Counselling

Nimco & Associates

867-393-2265

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Nils Clarke

(867) 667-6401

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Helping Peoples

(867) 667-6401

604-918-7540

Community Food Bank

604 792 0001

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Brigadier Arthur Cartmell House

Yellowhead Community Services

Interventions Canada

QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

Tom Shypitka

Stikine Regional Health Centre

Cowichan Valley Basket Society

Edgewood Health Network Victoria

Kamloops Counselling Services

250-771-4444

250-746-1566

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Seven oaks tertiary Mental Health Facility

Warmland House

604 456-8917 Ann Davis Transition Society

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Indigenous Sto:lo Nation

Sto:lo Nation

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(604) 392-0881 Stolo Wellness Centre

(844) 827-2473 Mental Health Chilliwack Psychology Services Inc.

250-674-2135 Safety Complex Trauma Resources Inc.

800-638-1812 Library Surrey Libraries Cloverdale Branch

604-598-7327

604-502-6402

Plateau Medical Clinic

Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society

Mike Starchuk

Coquitlam

Mental Health & Addictions Services North Island

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250-331-8524

The Medical Clinic

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Library

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Coquitlam Public Library

Fraser Valley Youth Society

604.876.3601

604-937-4130

250-674-3319 Mental Health

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Service BC Centre Dease Lake

QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

Wholehearted Counselling Service

250-771-3700 Government Hon. Nathan Cullen

Delta Delta Food Bank

250-674-2600

604-474-0435

250-334-3222

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Thompson Nicola Regional Library

Coquitlam Counselling for Trauma

Ronna-Rae Leonard

Community Yellowhead Community Services

250-674-2600 Government

Fraser Valley Youth Society

Indigenous Spirit of the Children Society

Peter Milobar

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(778) 285-5859 Mental Health

604-792-1941 Community

604-574-4341

604-937-4130

Chilliwack Society for Community Living

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Sarah Susswein, Registered Clinical Counsellor

Community Integration Services Society

Support Pflag Canada

Kelli Paddon

Coquitlam Public Library

250-426-7664 Shelter Kootenay Canadian Mental Health Assoc.

250-426-4887 Safety Summit Community Services Society

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MileZero WalkIn Clinic & Family Practice

250-782-1103 Mental Health Dawson Creek Adult Mental Health & Addictions

250-719-6525 Library Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library

250-782-4661 Community Nawican Friendship Centre

250-782-5202 Government

Indigenous BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Dease Lake Food Foodbank listing missing please update

Cloverdale Family Medical Centre

(250) 338-2533.

604-576-2828

Inner Self Counselling and Therapy

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250-310-6478

Shelter

Library

Fort St. John Shelter

Thompson Nicola Regional Library

250-787-1121

250-763-7161

Vancouver Island University

Sonia Furstenau

250.746.6126 Esquimalt

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Food

Chand Medical Clinic Inc

Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society

(778) 590-2825 Mental Health CMHA VancouverFraser – Delta

604-943-1878 Library

Delta Community Living Society Resource Centre

250 384 2069 Shelter VCA Sandy Merriman House

250-480-1408 Safety Esquimalt Neighbourhood House Society

Support QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

604-946-9508 Government

Indigenous

Hon. Ravi Kahlon

Victoria Native Friendship Centre

Duncan

250-426-2976

(604) 299-3908

HealthCare

Community

Dze L K'ant Friendship Centre Society

Kamloops Mental Health & Addiction Services

Government

604.946.4141 Indigenous

The Salvation Army Fort St. John

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

250.426.4063 Community Connections Society of Southeast BC

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250-748-8506

Service BC Centre Dease Lake

Pflag Canada

Food

250-828-8080

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Bc Youth Mental Health

Pidcock House

Fort St. John

Kelowna

George Mackie Library

Support

250-414-7100

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Safety

Cranbrook Public Library

Orchards Walk Medical Clinic

Cowichan Green Community Society

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Library

HealthCare

Hon. Mitzi Dean

QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

604-574-4341

Shelter

Government

Indigenous

250-420-2323

(250) 338-0615

250-385-2635

Community

Community

250-426-1400

Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society

Support

Bill Reid Place Options

Comox Valley Food Bank

Esquimalt Neighbourhood House Society

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250.753.3245

Shelter

Food

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Community

Library

(604) 594-8155

Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

(250) 856-0560

250-940-4875

Ripple Effect Psychotherapy & Counselling

Cranbrook Urgent and Primary Care Centre

Courtenay

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Pflag Canada

GVPLibrary Esquimalt

250-709-3040

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Fin Donnelly

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Support

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Mike Bernier

250-784-3600

Hiiye'yu Lelum Society

Library

604-957-1556

W.I.N.G.S.

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Indigenous

250-590-3168

Duncan Mental Health and Addiction Services

Government

Indigenous

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Cranbrook Food Bank

604.596.7722

604-461-2131

604-927-3000

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(250) 674-34-02

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Nawican Friendship Centre (Dawson Creek)

Hyland House Cloverdale Options

Clearwater N. Thompson Food Bank

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Cranbrook

Canadian Mental Health Association

Community

3030 Gordon Refuge d'urgence

Support

Safety

250-782-9886

Food

250-334-4441

250-715-1132

250-636-2380

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Clearwater Mental Health & Substance Use

604-777-8400

Clearwater

Stewart Public Library

Indigenous

Shelter

604-792-9311

Aspen Court Hostel

Mental Health

Foodbank listing missing please update

Dan Coulter

Shelter

Government

604-702-2311

Government

(604) 468-1500

250-519-3520 Library

Indigenous

Foothills Medical Clinic

The Village

Foodbank listing missing please update

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Cloverdale

604-846-7777

Wachiay Friendship Centre

Clayton Hall

Child & Youth Mental Health Offices

Chilliwack Library

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604-792-1941

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250-674-2257

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604-402-1001

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8007282726

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(250) 382-4296

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250-377-8673 Community Kamloops Community YMCA-YWCA

250-372-7725 Government Todd Stone

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250-263-6000 Mental Health Fort St John Mental Health & Addiction Services

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250-785-3731

Food Central Okanagan Food Bank

Shelter Gardner Women & Children Safe Centre

250-763-2262 Safety Next Step Counselling Group

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Fraser Valley Youth Society

Fort St. John Association for Community Living

Indigenous

250-787-9262 Government Dan Davies

250-787-8150

Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society

HealthCare Mission Medical Centre

Kamloops

(250) 868-8222

Food

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250.376.2252 Shelter Emerald Centre

250-372-3031

250-868-7788 Library Okanagan Regional Library

250-860-4033

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GreenTree Community Inclusion Programs Inc

Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society

Gateway of Hope

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(360) 221-4383

The Centre for Compassion Inspired Health

Nelson Community Services

Safety

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Place Maillardville Community Centre

SARA for Women

604-514-7375

Mackenzie Counselling Services Society

Encompass Support Services Society

Timms Community Centre

250-212-5981 Government Renee Merrifield

250-469-8500 Ladysmith Food

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Healthy Essentials Clinic

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Ladysmith Resources Centre

250-766-3433 Library

Indigenous

250-245-3079

Lake Country Library | ORL Branch

Lower Fraser Valley Aboriginal Society

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250-766-3141

250-245-8328

Community

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Lakeview Heights Community Centre

Ladysmith Community Health Centre

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778-797-2240 Government Norm Letnick

250-766-5650 Indigenous Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre

Langford Food Goldstream Food Bank

250-474-4443

Support

Government

Pflag Canada

Hon. Selina Robinson

604-514-2940

(778) 478-0277 Mental Health

604-933-6166

Government Andrew Mercier

Indigenous

604.514.2800

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Langley East Food Langley Food Bank

604-533-0671 Shelter

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Mackenzie Family Health Clinic

Merrit Place

Mission Friendship Centre Society

Salvation Army Gateway of Hope

250-997-4342

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Merritt & District Hospice Society

(604) 539-1744

604-514-7375 Safety

Elumind Centres For Brain Excellence

Encompass Support Services Society

604-220-8866 Library

Support

Langley Library

Fraser Valley Youth Society

(360) 221-4383 Community

Indigenous

Ishtar Women's Resource Society

Lower Fraser Valley Aboriginal Society

250-997-3263

Support

Library

Men's Health

Mackenzie Public Library

250-997-6343

Indigenous

Community

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Mackenzie Community Arts Centre

Victoria Cool Aid - Rock Bay Landing

250-739-5777

250-383-1951

604-534-1011

Mental Health

Safety

Government

HealthCare

250-997-3221

Ladysmith Community Health Centre

Men's Therapy Centre

Bruce Banman

Fraser Highway Medical Clinic Ltd

Mallardville

Vancouver Island Regional Library

877-415-8475 Community Stz'uminus Community Centre

250-245-9372 Government Doug Routley

250-245-6400 Lake Country Food Lake Country Food Bank

250-766-0125 Shelter DTES Womens Emergency Shelter

604.514.2800 Fraser Valley Youth Society

Indigenous Victoria Native Friendship Centre

HealthCare Millstream Medical Clinic

250-391-7554 Mental Health Victoria Therapists

Mental Health

Langley Food Bank

B C Child & Youth Mental Health

604-533-0671 Shelter Ishtar Women's Resource Society

604-530-9442 Safety Langley Counselling Centre

Fraser Valley Youth Society

250-940-4875

Indigenous

Community

Lower Fraser Valley Aboriginal Society

YMCA-YWCA Westhills

250-386-7511

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Hon. John Horgan

Pflag Canada

Food

Library

Government

Support

604-856-1717

Support

604-423-4807 Orchard Valley Counselling Services

Langley Center

416-271-6793 GVP Library Langford

HealthCare Avecina Medical Clinic

(604) 539Langley

Mental Health

Food

Langley Mental Health

Langley Food Bank

604-533-0671

236-425-0341

604-514-7940

604-514-2711 Library

Mike Morris

Food Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604.876.3601 Shelter The Russel

604-529-9126

Langley Library

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(360) 221-4383

Tri-cities Mental Health Centre

Community Stepping Stone Community Services Society

604-530-5033 Government Megan Dykeman

Support Fraser Valley Youth Society

Indigenous Spirit of the Children Society

Mackenzie Food Foodbank listing missing please update

Shelter Mackenzie Counselling Services Society

250-997-6595

HealthCare

Mission Friendship Centre Society

HealthCare Cedar Care Clinic

Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre

Nanaimo WalkIn & Family Practice Clinic

250-244-4740 VIHA Access Centre

250-739-5710 Library Vancouver Island Regional Library

(604) 820-7676 Cedar Care Clinic

877-415-8475

(604) 820-7676

Nanaimo Pride Society

Mental Health

Community

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604.876.3601 Shelter The Russel

604-529-9126 Safety New Westminster Counselling for Trauma

Support QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

Indigenous

604-814-5600

(250) 754-4251

HealthCare

Mission Mental Health Center

Nelson

Foremed Walk In Clinic

250-378-6222

604-814-5600

Mental Health

Library

Nelson Community Food Centre

Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre

Mission Library

250-354-1633

HealthCare The Medical Clinic

250-378-2242 Library Merritt Library, ThompsonNicola Regional Library

Community Conayt Friendship Society

250-378-5107

604-826-6610

250-352-9876

Mission Association for Community Living

Safety

Mission Community Services Society

604-826-3634

Jackie Tegart

Government

Mission

Bob D'Eith, Q.C.

Pam Alexis

St. Joseph's Food Bank

(604) 468-4085

St. Joseph's Food Bank

Food

Mental Health

778-536-3663

Coast Mental Health Recovery & Rehabilitation Brooskside

Shelter SARA for Women Society

250 566-1847

Library

Haven in the Hollow

Coquitlam Public Library

604-820-9008

Shelter

Community

Government

250-378-4224

Food

604-826-6610

604-826-9080

Nanaimo Foodshare Society

(250) 753-9393 Shelter

Spirit of the Children Society

Hon. Sheila Malcolmson

Stepping Stones Accommodation s

Mission Library

Nanaimo

604-520-3610

Indigenous

Mental Health

778-536-3663

Nova Care Medical Clinic

250-352-5511

Government

Food

604.514.2800

Brittny Anderson

Mission Mental Health and Substance Use Centre

250-997-5818 Government

Government

Pflag Canada

HealthCare

Shelter

Avecina Medical Clinic

Mental Health

Fraser Valley Youth Society

HealthCare

Ladysmith Community Health Centre

Library

Nicola Valley & District Food Bank

Fraser Valley Youth Society

Indigenous

Shelter

Support

Food

250-352-3504 Support

Support

250.378.2282

HealthCare

250-739-5777

Merritt

Life Balance Counselling Mission

Sandy Maclean Nelson Counselling

Support Rainbow Connections

Indigenous Kootenay Kids Society

HealthCare Ancron Medical Centre and Walk In Clinic

250-352-9144

604-522-2206 Mental Health New Westminster Mental Health Centre

604-777-6800 Library New Westminster Public Library

604-527-4660 Community Queensborough Community Centre

604-525-7388 Government Hon. Jennifer Whiteside

604.521.3711 Newton Food Surrey Food Bank Society

604-581-5443 Shelter Options Hyland House Newton

Mental Health

604-599-8900

Mental Health & Addictions Services-Nelson

Safety Elumind Centres

Samaritan House - Refuge d'urgence

Library

Support Pflag Canada

250-753-1474

Fort Nelson Public Library

604-937-4130

I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.

250-505-7248

250-774-6777

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Indigenous

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HealthCare

Safety

Community

Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

John Braithwaite Community Centre

Salt Spring Island's LGBTQ2SIA+ Society

Roly Russell

Ooknakane Friendship Centre

SHARE Family & Community Services

Port Hardy Primary Health Care Centre

John-Michael Parra, M.A., RCC Counselling

Prince George Community Foundation

Parksville

604-983-6471 HealthCare Surrey-Newton Urgent and Primary Care Centre

604-572-2625 Mental Health

Government

Indigenous

Food

Hon. Bowinn Ma

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Parksville - Mt Arrowsmith Salvation Army

604-985-7761 North Vancouver Seymour Food

Fraser Valley Forensic Clinic

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604-529-3300

604.876.3601

Library

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Surrey Libraries Newton Branch

Yukon Shelter and Housing Centre

604-598-7406

604-264-1680

Community

Safety

Listing Missing Please update if you can

Bach Counselling Group

Government Hon. Harry Bains

North Vancouver Lonsdale Food Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604.876.3601 Shelter

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Indigenous Native Courtworker & Counselling Association

HealthCare

HealthCare Oak Bay Medical Clinic

250-598-6744

Indigenous

Community

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Hon. Murray Rankin, Q.C.

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604-984-2629

MagiCore Counselling

Support SOS Pride

Indigenous

Government

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Adam Walker

604-987-8211 Government

HealthCare

Park and Tilford Medical Clinic

Susie Chant

Desert Doctors' Clinic

Elumind Centres For Brain Excellence

Penticton Salvation Army

250-492-6494

Oak Bay Food

Osoyoos Mental Health

236-422-2449

250-495-6433

Safety

Library

Christina May Counselling and Psychotherapy

North Vancouver City Public Library

Victoria Cool Aid Rock Bay Landing

250-383-1951 Safety The Budding Elm Counselling

Osoyoos Library | ORL Branch

Sonora Community Centre

250-495-6562

Support Pflag Canada

250-902-6008 Mental Health Mental Health Ctr

250-902-6051 Library Vancouver Island Regional Library

877-415-8475 Support

Community

Pflag Canada

Sacred Wolf Friendship Centre

Indigenous Spirit of the Children Society

778-216-1822 Mental Health Tri-cities Mental Health Centre

Michele Babchuk

Mental Health

Port Moody

Sunshine Mental Health

Food SHARE Family & Community Services

North Coast Transition Society

250-627-8959 Safety North Coast Transition Society

Support Parents/Guardia ns (of Trans* Youth) Group

604-469-4561 Safety Expressions Counselling

Spirit of the Children Society

Port Hardy Food Port Hardy Harvest Food Bank

250-902-0332 Shelter North Island Crisis & Counselling Centre

604-485-0992 Government

HealthCare

Hon. Nicholas Simons

2nd Avenue Medical Clinic

604-485-6291

250-624-5500

Prince George Indigenous

Port Coquitlam

Shelter

Library

Hon. Mike Farnworth

604.465.5454

(250) 624-6180

Prince Rupert Aboriginal Community Services Society

Government

Hon. Lisa Beare

The Salvation Army Prince Rupert

Powell River Community Resource Centre

Parents/Guardia ns (of Trans* Youth) Group

604-465-5454

Food

Kyle Centre

Support

South Bonson Community Centre

Prince Rupert

604-777-8400

604-892-4997

Community

250-561-7600

Indigenous

Pflag Canada

604-465-4113

Powell River Public Library

Shirley Bond

Community

Support

Pitt Meadows Public Library

Library

Government

604-485-4796

What's On Queer BC

Library

604-414-7654

250-562-7772

Shelter

Community

672-894-2210

604-485-5501

250 949 6665

Mental Health Self-Support Centre

New Pitt Meadows Medical Clinic

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Powell River Medical Clinic

Safety

HealthCare

Indigenous

HealthCare

604-554-7323

Fraser River Indigenous Society

Trans qathet: Alliance for Gender Diversity and Support

Government

604-474-0435

Indigenous

Support

250-902-0552

Coquitlam Public Library, City Centre Branch

Government

250-495-7637 Community

Shelter

Blackwaterhealt hcare Services

Compass House

Library

Friends In Need Food Bank

Food

Mental Health

Shelter

Food

Mental Health

Shelter

604-220-8866

Pitt Meadows

Penticton

250-495-6565

Salvation Army Stan Hagen Centre

250-490-2400

(604) 465-4911

604-985-7761

250-386-8521

604-998-3450

Organized Services District 69Community Centre

No Fear Counselling Port Coquitlam

Walk-In Clinic at Walmart Port Coquitlam

Community

250-248-2093

HealthCare

Mental Health

250-248-3841

Safety

Dan Ashton

Library VIRL Parksville branch

604-474-0435

HealthCare

Forward House Community Society

250-954-0785

3030 Gordon Project

Government

Osoyoos Food Bank

Shelter

Shelter

250-770-7873

Mental Health

Magnolia House

Hollyburn Family Services Society

YMCA Penticton Community Programs

Food

Mills Counselling

Native Courtworker & Counselling Association

Community

3030 Gordon Project

250-495-6581

604.540.9161

250-770-7781

250-947-8242

Mental Health

Community

Penticton Public Library

Osoyoos

Safety

Indigenous

Library

6044663663

250-495-2520

604-990-5800

HealthCare

250-493-7338

Oceanside Public Health Services

(250) 598-3311

604-973-1600

North Vancouver District Public Library

Safety

250-940-4875

604-987-0366

Salt Spring Island's LGBTQ2SIA+ Society

1-888-756-0616

Salt Spring Island's LGBTQ2SIA+ Society

Sunshine Ridge Seniors Community

Library

Haven Society

Library

North Vancouver Urgent and Primary Care Centre

Support

Mental Wellness Centre

Support

Government

250-493-5228 Mental Health

250-360-6998

Neighbourhood Learning Centre

Apple Plaza Walk-In Clinic

Shelter

Optimind Clinic

Greater Victoria Public Library Oak Bay Branch

HealthCare

250-248-8794

Stephanie Peter Counselling

Mental Health

North Shore Crisis Services Society

604-983-2442

250.495.6515

Food

Bc Mental Health

Salvation Army Prince George

250-624-7510

250-564-4000

Prince Rupert Public Library

Shelter HealthCare Newport Medical Clinic

Bridget Moran Place

604-251-9940

604-461-0016

Safety

Mental Health

Northern Counselling & EMDR Inc.

KP Counselling

Mental Health

Library

250-627-1345 Community Prince Rupert Community Enrichment Society

250-627-7166 Government Jennifer Rice

Library

Support

Port Moody Public Library

Pflag Canada

250-949-8333 Safety

604-469-4575

Mental Health Ctr

Community

Indigenous

Food

Kyle Centre

The Salvation Army

Support

604-469-4561

Prince George Native Friendship Centre

Rainbow Advocacy Society of British Columbia:

Government

Quesnel

Rick Glumac

HealthCare

604-469-4500

PrimacySalveo Medical Clinic

Powell River Indigenous

Food

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Powell River Food Bank

604-485-9166 Shelter Powell River Community Resource Centre

604-485-0992

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250-614-0005 Mental Health Mental Health & Addictions Services

250-992-7079 Shelter Amata Transition House Society

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250-565-2100

Support

Library

Quesnel Pride Society

Prince George Public Library

250-563-9251

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Richmond North Food Richmond Food Bank Society

HealthCare

Food

Mental Health

Safety

Library

Shelter

Library

Elicare: Lansdowne Medical Clinic

Saanich Peninsula Lions Food Bank

Canadian Mental Health Association

Kerry Moller and Associates

Surrey Libraries - City Centre Branch

Cynthia's Place Refuge d'urgence

Surrey Libraries - City Centre Branch

604-598-7426

604-582-2456

604-598-7426

Pflag Canada

Community

Safety

Community

Indigenous

Progressive Intercultural Community Services

Sojourn Counselling and Neurofeedback

Clayton Community Centre

604-242-1862

(604) 271-5609

Mental Health

HealthCare

Shelter

Goldcity WalkIn Clinic

Chimo Community Services

Community Mental Wellness Association of Canada

604-270-4900

(250) 992-6006 Mental Health Mental Health

250-983-6828 Library Cariboo Regional District Library

Quesnel Tillicum Society Native Friendship Centre

Victoria Coalition to End Homlessness

Safety

Richmond Mental Health Team

Richmond Public Library

BC First Responders

250-832-1718

Support Pflag Canada

604-231-6422 Community

Support

Cambie Community Centre

SAFER Saanich

604-238-8399 Indigenous

Government

Connections Community Services Society

Aman Singh

Richmond South Mega Fu Medical Clinic at Walmart Richmond

Richmond Food Bank Society

(604) 271-5609

Saanich Peninsula Lions Food Bank

250-475-1101 Mental Health Connections Place

778-666-0203

Food

Mental Health

Revelstoke Local Food Initiative

Richmond Mental Health Team

CARITAS Men's Emergency Shelter

604-675-3975

804-972-0813

GVP Library Saanich Centennial

Shelter

Library

Safety

250-940-4875

Revelstoke Womens Shelter Society

Richmond Public Library

MindRight Counselling & Consulting

Community

604-231-6422 Community West Richmond Community Centre

604-238-8400

Fraser Valley Youth Society

Indigenous Indigenous Friendship Society of Revelstoke

HealthCare Selkirk Medical Group

250-837-9321 Mental Health Mountainside Counselling & Family Wellness

Government Teresa Wat

Richmond Queensborough Food Richmond Food Bank Society

(604) 271-5609 Shelter HomeAgain

804-358-7747 Safety Chimo Community Services

Library

Support

Revelstoke Library

Pflag Canada

Indigenous Connections Community Services Society

HealthCare Parker Place Medical Clinic

604-273-9899 Mental Health Youthwise Counselling & Mental Health Services

778-835-8955 Library Richmond Public Library

604-231-6422 Community City Centre Community Centre

604-204-8588

250-837-5095 Community

Indigenous

Community Connections Revelstoke

Connections Community Services Society

Government

Pflag Canada

604-276-4000

250-814-7072

250-837-2920

Support

Government

250-483-3748 Library

Saanich Volunteer Services Society

250-595-8008 Government Hon. Lana Popham

Salmon Arm Food Salmon Arm Salvation Army Food Bank

(250) 832-9194 Shelter New Hope The Salvation Army

Safety Canadian Mental Health Association

Support Pflag Canada

Saanich

250 655 0679 Shelter Listing missing please update if you can

Safety Homewood Ravensview

Canim Lake Band

604-596-7722 Government

Support

Jagrup Brar

Pflag Canada

Surrey Green Timbers Indigenous

604-277-7166

Food

Mental Health

Fraser Valley Regional Food Bank

MindRight Counselling & Consulting

778-617-3000

604-369-3890

Shelter

Library

Lookout Gateway Shelter

Richmond Public Library, Steveston

Mental Health

Community

Options Community Services

CRESST South Fraser

604-238-8080

Support

Government

Pflag Canada

Shoreline Medical - Sidney

250-656-4143 Mental Health Wellness Integrated Services for Health

778-351-4571 Library Port Orchard Library

(360) 876-2224 Community SHOAL Community Centre

Food Fraser Valley Regional Food Bank

Library Surrey Libraries - City Centre Branch

Indigenous

Community

Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

Great Light Healing Community Services

778-328-7729

778-617-3000

HealthCare

Shelter

Viva Care Medical Clinic (Inside Walmart) Central City

Hyland House Refuge d'urgence Shelter

778-372-4474 Mental Health Safety Peace Arch Hospice Society

Supporting Children and Youth Through Mental Health Crisis

Support

604-585-5561

Pflag Canada

Library

Indigenous Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

250-656-5537 Government

HealthCare

Adam Olsen

Central City Medical Clinic Denning Health Group

Steveston

604-587-4220

604-598-7426 Surrey - Fleetwood

HealthCare

Primacy Guildford Medical Clinic

604-582-8985

SAFER Saanich

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

HealthCare

Safety

Steveston Community Centre

Surrey Libraries - City Centre Branch

604-598-7426 Community Options Community Services

Government Garry Begg

Surrey Panorama Food Surrey Food Bank Society

604-581-5443 Shelter Sheena's Place

Safety Surrey Women's Centre

Support Pflag Canada

604-584-5811

Indigenous

Government

Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

Rachna Singh

Food

604-951-0885

Surrey Newton

Mental Health

Food

HealthCare

Richmond Food Bank Society

Salmon Arm Medical Clinic

(604) 271-5609

Timber Creek Tertiary Care Facility

Fraser Valley Regional Food Bank

250-832-6092

Shelter

604-580-6500

778-617-3000

HealthCare Walk-In Clinic at Walmart Surrey Guildford

604-583-8482

Doug Clovechok

Parkway Shelter

Mental Health

250 837-2161

604-582-0408

Adult Mental Health Center

604-541-6844

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604-502-6300 Government Jinny Sims

Surrey South Food Surrey Food Bank Society

604-581-5443 Shelter

604-589-8678

Support

Indigenous

Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

604-231-6424

Kelly Greene

Indigenous

Henry Yao

604-276-4000

Steveston Medical Centre

Food

Revelstoke

Shelter

HealthCare

Victoria Native Friendship Centre

Saanich Plaza Medical Clinic

Connections Community Services Society

Greg Kyllo

Indigenous

HealthCare

Support

Government

Sidney

604-276-4000

Coralee Oakes

Support

Community

Library

Food

Mountainside Counselling & Family Wellness

250-832-6161 Community Living BC

HealthCare

Safety

Salmon Arm Library | ORL Branch

250-370-1512

Government

250-837-4382

Library

604-273-1791

250-992-8347

250-992-2111

Shelter

250-832-8477

Safety

250-992-7912 Community

250 655 0679

Hyland House Cloverdale Shelter

604-574-4341 Safety Tidal Trauma Centre

Support Pflag Canada

Indigenous Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

HealthCare Central City Medical Clinic Denning Health Group

604-951-0885 Mental Health Surrey Mental Health and Substance Use Urgent Care

604-953-6200 Library Surrey Libraries - City Centre Branch

604-598-7426 Community Surrey Pride Society

778-888-3671 Government Stephanie Cadieux

Terrace Food Terrace Church's Food Bank

250-900-9916 Shelter Ksan Residence & Shelter

250-635-5890

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Community

Support

Community

Indigenous

Food

Library

Support

Community

Hospice Society Terrace

Tofino Community Hall and Emergency Reception Centre

QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

Vancouver Pride Society

Circle of Eagles Lodge Society

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Vancouver Mall Community Library

QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

Strathcona Community Centre

Support Pflag Canada

250-725-3229 Government

Indigenous Kermode Friendship Society

Hon. Josie Osborne

Park Avenue Medical Clinic

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

250-725-3229 Trail Food

HealthCare

Indigenous

Trail Salvation Army Food Bank

HealthCare Ladner Centre Medical

(604) 940-0917

250-615-5040

(250) 368-3515

Mental Health

Mental Health

Shelter

OAT Clinic

Trail Family & Individual Resource Centre

Delta South Mental Health And Substance Use Centre

Library Terrace Heights Library

(509) 457-5319 Community Terrace & District Community Services Society

250-364-1543 Safety Kootenay Counselling Gabriel RoyWright

Support Men's Health

250-635-3178 Government Ellis Ross

Tofino

(250) 726-6909 Shelter Fort St. John Shelter

250-787-1121 Safety The Centre for Compassion Inspired Health

Support QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

Library Tsawwassen Library

604-943-2271 Community Delta Community Living Society Tsawwassen

Indigenous

Vancouver False Creek Food Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604.876.3601 Shelter Aboriginal Central Street Shelter

604-682-5556 Safety Vancouver Trauma Recovery

Support Rainbow Refugee

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Ian Paton

Vancouver Fairview HealthCare Waneta Primary Care Clinic

250-368-0053 Mental Health Mental Health & Addiction Services-Trail

250-364-6262 Library Trail & District Public Library

250-364-1731 Community Columbia Basin Alliance For Literacy

Food Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604.876.3601

604-323-0077

604-681-9126

Mental Health

Safety

CMHA VancouverFraser

Homewood Health, Vancouver

Library

Support

Vancouver Community Library

Pflag Canada

(360) 256-7782 Community Out On Patrol

Aquarius Medical Clinic

(604) 669-7772 Vancouver Hastings Mental Health

604.876.3601 HealthCare

Shelter

Granville Medical Clinic

Harbour Light The Crosswalk

604-646-6800 Safety EMDR Therapy Group

866-986-2165

Safety

(360) 892-8256

Aliona Sydorenko Counselling

Community

Indigenous

Lesbian and Gay Immigration Taskforce

Circle of Eagles Lodge Society

QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

Hon. Katrine Conroy

Circle of Eagles Lodge Society

250 364-1262 HealthCare

Government Brenda Bailey

South Vancouver Neighbourhood Hous

Helping Spirit Lodge Society

604-324-6212

Doc-Side Medical

South Mental Health Team

604-266-6124 Library Vancouver Community Library

(360) 256-7782 Community Rainbow Foundation of Hope

Government

HealthCare

Government

Burquitlam Medical Clinic

Hon. Adrian Dix

(604) 939-8831 Mental Health

Vancouver Langara Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604.876.3601 Triage Shelter

604-254-3700 Safety

Vancouver Community Mental Health Services

604-675-3890 Library Vancouver Mall Community Library

(360) 892-8256 Community

ARC: Anxiety Relief Centre

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House

Support

Government

Pflag Canada

Hon. Melanie Mark

604-254-5401

Indigenous Helping Spirit Lodge Society

HealthCare Broadway Station Medical Clinic

(604) 872-5377

Food Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604.876.3601 Shelter

Coast Mental Health

Vancouver Kingsway 877-602-6278

604-681-3405

Food

Library

Safety

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Vancouver Community Library

Mood Disorders Association of BC

604.876.3601

(360) 256-7782

Shelter

Community

Lookout Yukon St Shelter

JKC COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Mental Health

604-264-1680

Government Hon. David Eby, Q.C.

Vancouver Quilchena Food Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604.876.3601 Shelter Powell Place Refuge d'urgence Shelter

604-606-0403 Safety No Fear CounsellingYaletown

Support QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

Indigenous Helping Spirit Lodge Society

Vancouver Point Grey

Belkin House Refuge d'urgence Shelter

Mable Elmore

604-713-1838

HealthCare Coast Medical Clinic False Creek

(604) 569-3632 Mental Health TELUS Health Care Centres Mental Health

604-210-9971 Library Vancouver Mall Community Library

(360) 892-8256 Community

Support QMUNITY: BC’s Queer Resource Centre

West End Community Centre

604-257-8333 Government

Safety

Government

Sana Counselling

Michael Lee

Health & Substance Use Services

Support

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

604-829-8657

Pflag Canada

Vancouver Mount Pleasant Food

HealthCare

Vancouver Mall Community Library

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Chaldecott Medical Clinic

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

(604) 261-9494

604.876.3601

Mental Health

Shelter

Strathcona Community Mental Health Team

Springhouse Refuge d'urgence Shelter

Mental Health Vancouver FraserviewBC Mental Food

Keefer Walk-In and Medical Clinic

604.876.3601

250-725-4010

(604) 946-1967

604-674-7403

Mental Health

Shelter

Mental Health

First United Church Shelter

Tofino General Hospital

Virginia Sam Transition House

250-725-4010

604-584-5811

Library

Safety

Vancouver Coastal Mental Health Team KitsilanoFairview

Vancouver Island Regional Library

Elumind Centres

604-736-2881

Support

Library

Qchat

(360) 256-7782

HealthCare

(604) 633-1234

South Delta Food Bank

Vancouver Community Library

Indigenous

Shelter HealthCare

Vi Fineday Family Shelter

Support

Circle of Eagles Lodge Society

Hon. George Chow

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Homewood Health, Vancouver

Indigenous

Government

Circle of Eagles Lodge Society

Mental Health

Community

Food

604-717-0504

Food

604-733-4700

(360) 892-8256

604-872-4902

Vancouver Island Queer Resource Collective

Indigenous

877-415-8475

Lookout - Al Mitchell Place Shelter

Support

Government

Food

South Vancouver Medical Clinic

Vancouver Mall Community Library

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Tofino General Hospital

Shelter

Library

Shelter

250-368-6770

Tsawwassen

604.876.3601 HealthCare

Indigenous

Government

Indigenous

HealthCare

Hon. George Heyman

604-948-1149

Food Food Bank on th Edge

604-948-7010

604-687-0955 Government

Shelter

604-681-8365 Safety Turning Point Therapy

Library Indigenous Helping Spirit Lodge Society

(360) 892-8256 HealthCare

Rainbow Refugee

Metrohealth Clinic

(604) 433-3341 Government

Mental Health

Niki Sharma

Access & Assessment Centre

Vancouver Kensington

Helping Spirit Lodge Society

604.876.3601 Shelter

Community

604-675-3700

Vacant

Indigenous

412 Women's Refuge d'urgence Shelter

604-423-4807 Safety BC Operational Stress Injury Clinic

I was hungry and you fed me, thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.

Vancouver West End Food

604-253-4401

604-606-0412

Library

Safety

Vancouver Community Library

Willow Tree Counselling

(360) 256-7782

Support Pflag Canada

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Food

Mental Health

Safety

Community

Indigenous

Helping Spirit Lodge Society

Vernon BC Food Bank

Victoria Mental Health Centre

Next Step Counselling Group

Community Centre | West Vancouver

Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services

(250) 549-4111 HealthCare

Shelter

Kitsilano Medical Clinic

Gateway Support Services

(604) 731-9187 Mental Health West End Community Mental Health Team

Safety Traumatic Stress Recovery Ctr

604-331-8904 Library

Support

Vancouver Mall Community Library

Vernon Trans Peer Support

(360) 892-8256 Community West Point Grey Community Centre

604-257-8140 Government Spencer Chandra Herbert

Vanderhoof Food Friends In Need Food Bank

6044663663 Shelter Directions

250-567-9512 Safety Omineca Safe Home Society

Support Trans Youth & Adult Support

Indigenous BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Indigenous North Okanagan Friendship Centre Society

HealthCare North Okanagan Medical Clinic

(250) 545-8338 Mental Health Vernon Downtown Mental Health and Substance

250-370-8175

604-925-7270

Library

Support

Government

Greater Victoria Public Library

Pflag Canada

Karin Kirkpatrick

250-940-4875 Community James Bay Community Project

250-388-7844 Government Grace Lore

250.385.5711 Victoria Swan Lake Food Salvation Army Stan Hagen Centre

Indigenous Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society

HealthCare Highroads Medical Clinics West Kelowna

BEYOND SURVIVAL

604-581-5443

604-932-3202

Shelter

Library

Support

Food

Whalley Strip

Whistler Public Library

Pflag Canada

Auburn Food Bank

Washington Tribes

Helping Hand House

Library

Our Place Society

250-388-7112

Westbank Library | ORL Branch

Safety

250-768-4369

Men's Therapy Centre

Community Boys And Girls Club

Support Pflag Canada

Government Jordan Sturdy

Indigenous Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

Food Sources Food Bank

250.545.1361 Victoria Beacon Hill Food Saint Vincent de Paul Social Concerns

(250) 381-4353 Mental Health RJH Eric Martin Pavilion

Bill Reid Place Options

Aberdeen Timberland Library

HealthCare

604-582-5826

604-574-4341

(360) 533-2360

Mental Health

Safety

Community

COURAGE TO HEAL

Adult Mental Health Center

GSA

360-676-6000 Library

Triage Shelter

604-598-7426

Auburn Public Library

Bellingham Public Library

604-254-3700 Safety West Vancouver Counselling Well Beings

HealthCare

Vernon

Broadmead Village

Indigenous Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services

250-388-5251 HealthCare

Hon. Rob Fleming

Caulfield Village Medical Clinic

(604) 922-1544 Mental Health The Ducklows

Community Decision Support Services

360-532-9020

360-533-4100 Indigenous Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre

Allyn North Mason Food Bank

360-275-4615 Government Hon. Bruce Ralston, Q.C.

HealthCare Family Practice Society

Community

Government

Whatcom Pride

Mike Sells

(206) 441-3210

Food

Mental Health

Whistler Community Services Society

Arches Counselling and Consulting

Clackamas Women's Services

778-899-8735

Support

Library

PFLAG Seattle

White Rock Library

Bellingham Food

855-443-6337

360.676.0392

Vandana Slatter

Bellingham Food Bank Downtown

Gerry Pollet

Indigenous

1-877-890-5711

Community

360.676.0392

Washington Tribes

Shelter

Safety

White Rock Community Centre

604-209-4210

604-541-2199

Rollins William MD

Trevor Halford

360-275-8534

Library

Mental Health

Alphabet Soup

Cornerstone Shelter

West Vancouver Memorial Library

Kitsap Mental Health Services

250-317-6678

604-925-7400

Washington

360-373-5031

(250) 479-7147

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Government

Truth Ministries of Spokane

Chelan

509-456-2576

Lake Chelan Food Bank

HealthCare

Government

Gender Diversity Education & Support Services

Bellingham Food Bank Downtown

604-541-2201

Whistler Community Services Society

(360) 778-7323

Noel House Women's Referral Center

Safety

Howe Sound Women's Centre Society

Lambert House

Bellingham Public Library

Shelter

604-531-1888

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Community

206.322.2515

Whistler

604-932-0113

(360) 778-7323

Food

Support

Shelter

250-567-4711

360-734-5400 Lake Whatcom Residential Treatment Center

Library

Government

250-768-1559

PeaceHealth St. Joseph : Behavioral Health

253-833-7444

Burnside Gorge Community Centre

John Rustad

Mental Health

Shelter

Victoria Sexual Assault Center

Central Okanagan Food Bank

360-738-2200

Jake Fey

Omineca Lakes Mental Health

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

PeaceHealth Cordata Same Day Clinic

Government

Community

Food

360-738-2200

Pflag Canada

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Support

Mental Health

West Kelowna

334-821-3221

HealthCare

Surrey Libraries - City Centre Branch

250-370-8175

250.385.5711

Auburn Urgent Care, INC.

Washington Tribes

Library

250-940-4875

Vancouver Island Queer Resource Collective

Indigenous

Washington Tribes

604.876.3601

250-383-1951

Vanderhoof Public Library

360-538-1461

PFLAG Bremerton/Kitsa p County

Indigenous

HealthPoint: Valley Cities Auburn

250-567-2201

Support

Sea Mar Aberdeen Behavioral Health Clinic

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PFLAG Bellingham/Wha tcom County

778-846-4825

Pflag Canada

Library

PFLAG Bellingham/Wha tcom County

Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Omineca Medical Clinic

250-567-5994

Nexus Youth and Families

Washington Tribes

778-797-1000

Burnside Family Medical Clinic

Sea Mar Aberdeen Medical Clinic

Library

604.531.6226 Alliance Clinic Ltd

Food

Safety

Mental Health White Rock

Ben Stewart

West Vancouver

253-848-6096 HealthCare

360-538-1293

Shelter

HealthCare

253-833-8925

Whistler Community Services Society

604-932-0113

Support

Auburn

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Government

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Greater Victoria Public Library

(250)567-9205

Surrey Food Bank Society

Tana Senn

Shelter

Library

Connexus Community Resources

Mental Health

Safety

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Harwinder Sandhu

Government

425-679-0350

Indigenous

Orchard Valley Counselling Services

DV/SA SERVICES OF WHATCOM COUNTY

(206) 461-4888

Community

Shelter

Government

YWCA

(604) 905-7089

Government

250-545-0585

Community

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~ The Expressions Pages ~ My Land is a Dream

atmysphoric

A space between imagination and memory

The voice grates It vibrates to low It oozes down into my chest Stoked down and burning If that voice were a football I would dropkick it into the stratosphere Send that heater flying A kick into the unwanted nuts of my inheritance And at last I would sing properly.

By Raven John

Ever present and distant, it calls to me.

Its voice is muffled by concrete and cash I make my way through the carved out mountains, Past million dollar neighbourhoods In the generations my family has spent in residential schools, in debt to the pain of recovering from it Their generations were building wealth, on the land they stole from us.

By Vanessa Colatano

- written february 7, 2014

My hungry body moves Past berry picking spots now guarded by purebred dogs and fences.

These homes I could never own, atop the home they stole from us.

My land calls to me To sit still with it To trade breath and love To hold eachother in this pain Unceded She has not given in She calls to me To be with her Not only in pain but in love.

To carry her as she does me. Ever Present.

I sit and quiet my anger Try to focus on her beauty Ever generous she offers me a gift, to ease my short journey in this mortal realm

How to melt a rose in 6 easy steps

By Vanessa Colatano 1. Find the right candidate, a high and mighty pink flower on a straight, tall, aloof stem 2. Clip at the waist, just about halfway 3. Turn towards the sun 4. Hold out the flower and expose to the searing heat of truth 5. Watch said flower, its pretensions, its egregious scent, watch it smoke and then, drip 6. Who says vengeance is best served chilled?

- written april 1, 2019

Ways of Loving

By Raven John

The ways of loving I’ve known hold strong Bonds that carry you through the worst times When needed that love is there The ways of loving I know Have kept me and mine alive Kept us safe from residential school Held children close Kept the bad men away The ways of loving I know keep me and mine alive They don’t always keep us Well though Babies are not an answer.

Babies don’t fix bad behavior

Don’t undo the hurt carried forth through those bad times That love won’t serve me or that baby.

That love will help us survive, but it won’t make us ok In the worst of times I will pull through for those I love I will be everything they need I will pull and yank and stretch myself to get us through The ways of loving I have known don’t always serve us I won’t ask you to be my everything I know you can And I can be your everything But it will not leave us well I refuse to just survive

~ The Expressions Pages ~ The Wrong Body

By Connie Quayle

The “wrong body” narrative is a common one within and about transgender communities. You’ve probably heard it at one point, that trans people are born into the wrong bodies. Or perhaps, more insidiously, a description of, for example, a binary trans man as being a man in a woman’s body.

So I ask… how is this narrative helpful? Who does it serve?.

Why do they - those who explain to me who I am - tell me that I am of the wrong body?

Where does this idea arise from, that I, as a trans person, am born into the wrong body? As though there’s been some mistake.

As though this body that I inhabit in this life carries a sense of wrongness?

And though God, in his micromanaging of existence, was simply distracted when my soul was born in this way. Ooops.

Maybe it’s because the landscape of my body, my curves and angles, hills and valleys, were sculpted by rivers and floods of hormones that are no longer in my egosystem, that no longer erode me?

Or maybe it’s because my reproductive shapes don’t match what they consider to be “right” that I am a mistake, in need of correction? That I am In need of medical intervention and psychological gatekeeping to justify how they pathologize my existence.

I am not a mistake.

I was not born into the wrong body.

I was born into my body, this body, the only one I have and will have in this life.

Instead, I was born into wrong gender and I defy their beliefs. definitions.

Born into the wrong-headedness I do exist, as do many thousands of colonial society that self-per- like me, on the margins of their petuates through designation of sight. borders and definitions. As if, Foreigners from within, “others” by defining something they can to contrast against. control it.

They fear us, hate us, because our They continue to grasp their existence proves them wrong. crumbling ideas that there are And the one thing that they cantwo genders, that to be a man not be is wrong. Wrong is what is this, to be a woman is that… belongs to the “other”, to those within a man box or lady box. who are not within the borders Do not deviate, for to deviate that they create and enforce for from the center of how things themselves. To be wrong would “should be” is to be marginalmean to listen and learn rathized. er than continue to define and And to stray past those edges judge. invites punishment and coercion, correction, intervention, death.

To rationalize their sense of They defy biology that shows a rightness, they indoctrinate us, far more complicated sex deter- institutionalize us. mination than the binary of this They taught us that our or that. bodies - because they are trans They deny social reality, that we need fixing.They claim that what who will not fit in their they call predetermined “gender dysphoria” is a result of boxes, really do exist. the wrong parts in the wrong They turn a blind eye to a human places rather than a perpetuation history that shows that gender of a mental variance has always existed and incapacity that prevents ignore and erase any narrative understanding, compassion, that is not created in alignment acceptance of diversity. Maybe with the edges of their fictional boxes.

And some proudly proclaim that their human rights only apply to people like them, that they have the right to decide who else gets to have rights and who does not.

They deny their own nature, their own potential, to become more than what can fit into their tight boxes.

They frantically erase, burn, what does not fit within their lines.

They desperately defend the borders of their thinking, the edges of their perception, in spite of the overwhelming evidence that they can only see part of the picture, that they are only part of the picture. In spite of the irrefutable fact that there is life outside the right-angled frame they peer through.

I exist outside their boundaries of

gender dysphoria is merely a symptom of a cultural illness.

I see cis-centric society clutching their head, rocking back and forth Unable to process… as if by squeezing their temples with all their failing strength they can prevent the expansion of their mind.

They can keep out the truth… that their violence, hatred, abuse has been for nothing except their own self-indulgence.

Because I am not in the wrong body.

I am a trans body.

A body that is beautifully soft and hard, a body that brings pain and pleasure, a body that carries me through experiences and adventures in this world.

A world of wrong belief, That sees with wrong eyes.

My body is not wrong.

In defiance of their indoctrination, I inform That my form Will not conform To the boxes on their forms My body is not confined by geometry or edges I am free form And in being I trans form Wobbly, jiggly, tight and loose All that my body is, is mine, is me.

And in my sovereignty, this sacred temple of defiance, No matter what laws, rules, mandates they declare to control my body No matter how violently their colonial control rocks my experience My body is right.

My body is good.

My body knows.

I am me. In my right body.

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