QBIPOC

  • Métis Femme Bodies

    Métis Femme Bodies is a visual and sonic exploration into the experiences of what has become a repressed identity in both Indigenous and female(-presenting) forms.

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  • Myra Laramee

    Dr. Myra Laramee is a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation. She brought the Two-Spirit name to a sharing circle at the 3rd Annual Gathering of Native American Gays and Lesbians. It was received through ceremony and adopted by the community afterwards.

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  • Unapologetic

    Ashley O'Shay

    After two police killings, Black millennial organizers challenge a Chicago administration complicit in state violence against its Black residents.

    Genre: Documentary
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  • Monica Forrester

    Monica Forrester is a Program and Outreach co-ordinator for Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project. Since 1999, she has worked in various agencies to educate and make services accessible for trans* folks. She actively works to promote awareness and visibility of trans women.

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  • Casualties of Modernity

    Kent Monkman

    Celebrity artist and humanitarian Miss Chief Eagle Testickle (Kent Monkman) tours a hospital specializing in the treatment of conditions afflicting Modern and Contemporary Art.

    Genre: Shorts
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  • Disintegrate / Dissociate

    In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis.

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  • The Skin We're In

    In his 2015 cover story for Toronto Life magazine, Desmond Cole exposed the racist actions of the Toronto police force, detailing the dozens of times he had been stopped and interrogated under the controversial practice of carding.

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  • Under the Udala Trees

    Chinelo Okparanta

    Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.

    Genre: QIPOC Fiction
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  • Judgement Day

    Francesca Hawkins

    In 2017, Jason Jones, a human rights activist sued the state over colonial-era laws that criminalise sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex.

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  • NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes From The Field

    In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt writes using the modes of accusation and interrogation.

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