education
Upcoming Workshop Collaboration- Pleasure (Your) Chest: coming in September!
Top Surgery can be a life saving procedure, but is not always as simple as the common narrative. This post announces an upcoming workshop offering partnership with Jess DeVries called Pleasure (your) Chest, which is a 4 part series for people who have had masculinizing chest surgery which we will be starting to offer online in September.
First Spring
Here on the west coast, we barely have much of a Canadian winter, a couple of days of snow, a few blustery rain stormy days, and then… just like that, flowers are popping up, buds are appearing on trees and bushes and the length of days stretches noticeably on both ends. As things are pushing…
Show & Tell – Gifts & Presence
Looking forward to a cozy Friday evening gathering to dive into gifts and presence. The ticket portal is open til Thursday night.
Why Do I host events in Topia?
I have been thinking about this a lot over the past few weeks, as I made my poster for the CBRC summit, and then as I went to the in person summit and have had more time to ponder about what hosting & attending events is about for me. As someone who continues to keep…
CBRC Poster Presentation
I made this poster for the Community Based Research Council summit before realizing I would need to pay to have it printed. Rather than do that, I have just posted it here so folks can access it through their devices.
The Show & Tell – Moving towards JUST RIGHT
After a full 12 events over 13 months, the Show & Tell has been a project that has been finding it’s feet. I have found ways of hosting this online monthly that seem to refine themselves a bit each time around. Some pieces make sense to carry over from one month to the next, and…
Portal Is About to Close
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Portal Now Open
Tickets are now on sale for October’s Sex Magic Implement Show & Tell in Kori Doty’s Topia. Co-hosted by author & witch Serena Bhandar. AND… it’s the show & tell’s birthday!
Where’d you learn THAT?
Sex education in schools has long had a well earned reputation for being … less than ideal. My own experiences of school based sexual health education were nearly non-existent. As I was pretty involved in a conservative Christian community through my childhood and teen years, when the permission letters were sent home to give families…
Show & Tell
When I was 19 I moved to Halifax. Right on Barrington, across from the diner I worked in the kitchen, was and still is Venus Envy. That store changed my life, without question. It was where I bought my first, and second dildo, as well as where I first ever learned that transmasculine people existed…
In Whose Best Interest?
As much as I wish that we could move forward with scientifically backed measures like bans to conversion therapy, allowing trans or gender questioning youth to access hormone blockers and medically assisted transitional puberty, or implementation of SOGI 123 diversity and inclusion curriculum, we are unfortunately in a time where many people are really adamantly…
STI Testing Panel Livestream- Dec 1, 2020
This is an opportunity to acknowledge, respect and appreciate the wisdom and leadership of queer, trans, sex worker and drug user communities when it comes to public health, testing, harm reduction, and health advocacy.