QTBIPOC Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Transforming safety

paultran — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:35:16 +0000

Thanks to the Movement for Black Lives and other anti-racist organizations in the city, we know that safety does not come from policing. But what really keeps us safe, from COVID and other crises? And what do the alternative strategies of safety that are being innovated in queer and trans Black, Indigenous and people of […]

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Documenting spaces for us, created by us!

paultran — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:33:31 +0000

As a person who identifies as a homosexual Afro-Asian cis-man, Jc Elijah (Eli) M. Bawuah has experienced complex intersectional facets of oppression and isolation that dissociates him from several urban spaces. Drawing on such experiences for his MES project, he delves into creating an exploratory documentary that looks at the socio-spatial impacts of exclusionary planning and design […]

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Taking Space, Making Space: Digital Maps by Queers of Colour in Toronto

inist — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Principal Investigator: Jinthana Haritaworn. Funding: Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities. Term: 2015-2021. The five-year study explores collective experiences of belonging and displacement among queer and trans Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour (QTBIPOC) who live, work or play in Toronto. Using digital maps, the study sheds light on alternative forms of taking […]

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