QueerCovid-TO

Check out the new Q***r Covid Toronto website! It features a snapshot of our sample, spotlights of our team members, and updates you on our ongoing publications and presentations. Link is below and in our bio:
Q***rcovidto.ca
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katherena vermette (she/her) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She has worked in poetry, novels, children’s literature, and film. The Break, as well as her other novels, won several awards and was a bestseller in Canada. Check out katherena's work on her website https://katherenavermette.com.

This week we are featuring the Q***r Muslim Network, a community based organization providing resources, hosting events, and connecting q***r Muslims in Toronto and the GTA! Check out their Instagram for programming and resources.

Today’s creative is Mariko Tamaki, a New York Times bestselling Canadian writer of comics and prose. She is the co-creator of This One Summer, with Jillian Tamaki, and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, with Rosemary Valero-O'Connell, both of which received Eisner Awards and Printz Honors. In addition to her literary work, Mariko holds a Master’s in Women’s Studies and worked for two years on a doctorate in Linguistic Anthropology.

This week we are featuring the wonderful Blair Imani (She/Her) who is the LA Times Bestselling author of “Read This to Get Smarter.” She is an award winning educator, historian, and influencer. Blair Imani is a Black Muslim woman who was born and raised in Los Angeles.

This week we are featuring Taibu Community Health Centre, a multidisciplinary, non-for-profit, community led organization established to serve the Black Community across the GTA as its priority population. They have a number of resources including a vaccine clinic, all of which can be found on their website https://www.taibuchc.ca/en/.

So many exciting events are happening this week! Check out the Toronto Black Film Festival happening from the 16th-21st. Tickets can be bought on their website. All films will be streamed online.
www.torontoblackfilm.com

Check out the film 'With Wonder' directed by Sharon Lewis, which tackles the struggle of not fitting into the neat boxes racial/Q***r/Christian boxes. 'With Wonder' takes an intimate look at the journey of members of the Q***r, Christian community of colour and their attempts to answer the question: Can you be both Christian and Q***r?

This week we are featuring the incredible Roxane Gay, whose writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best S*x Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger.

Happy Friday! This week we are featuring Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND), a charitable organization dedicated to supporting, documenting and showcasing the artistic and cultural contributions of Black artists and cultural workers in Canada and internationally. BAND Gallery and Cultural Centre is dedicated to developing emerging artists, curators and administrators by providing an accessible venue to showcase their work to the general public. Check them out! https://www.bandgallery.com

This week we are featuring author Brandon Taylor, author of "Real Life" and "Filthy Animals." His work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed Reader, O: The Oprah Magazine, Gay Mag, The New Yorker online, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. Taylor holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow.

Check out this article on his debut novel: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/05/brandon-taylor-author-real-life-interview

Also, check him out on his website!
http://brandonlgtaylor.com/about

Black CAP is Canada’s largest Black specific AIDS service organization. Black CAP works to create culturally relevant outreach, prevention and support services for people infected with, affected by, or at risk of contracting HIV. They deliver support services that meet the health and wellness needs of their clients who are living with or affected by HIV or AIDS. To do this, Black CAP provides much needed counselling, settlement, practical and peer support, employment, housing and social support services that help people achieve their goals. Check out their website for programming and resources: http://ow.ly/z2fo50HMRhX

Happy Thursday everyone! Thank you to , and for these resources. Check them out!!!!