Welcome to OUTniagara’s Beyond the Rainbow Resource Syllabus!
The Beyond the Rainbow Resource Syllabus is a collection of online self-education resources covering topics across various 2SLGBTQQIA+ experiences, identities, and communities. Within each topic includes recommendations of books, zines, articles, podcasts, and videos, as well as organizations, activists, artists, and accounts to follow.
We will be publishing 3 volumes of Beyond the Rainbow via PDFs. As we published the updated volumes, we will be adding those resource sections to this page! The first two volumes will look at non-fiction topics and the third will cover arts and fiction. Many of the activists and artists fit into multiple categories, so if you don’t see someone in one category, they might appear in another section.
Beyond the Rainbow can be downloaded as a PDF!
Download Beyond the Rainbow Resource Syllabus Vol. 1 (PDF) – Available November 1, 2021!
Download Beyond the Rainbow Resource Syllabus Vol. 2 (PDF) – Coming Soon!
Download Beyond the Rainbow Resource Syllabus Vol. 3 (PDF) – Coming Soon!
Syllabus Volume 2 Topics
- Abolition
- Call-in, Call-out, & Call-ons
- Climate Justice
- Conversion Therapy
- Cultural Appropriation
- Domestic & Intimate Partner Violence
- Gentrification
- Healthcare
- Homelessness & Poverty
- Incarceration
- Immigration
- Intersectionality
- Muslim LBGTQQIA+ People & Islamaphobia
- Nerd Culture
- Palestinian Solidarity
- Parenting, Caregiving, & Families
- Pinkwashing & Rainbow Capitalism
- Polyamory
Syllabus Volume 3 Topics – Arts & Fiction!
With so many resources available online, we want to curate a central location to knowledge share. Due to the vast quantity of resources, we have not been able to to read, watch, or listen through all of these resources yet. If you have feedback, questions, recommendations, or concerns, please use the Beyond the Rainbow Feedback & Recommendation Form (below).
** Trigger Warning**
The content in this syllabus covers a range of topics that could be triggering. Topics in these resources are as follows and can always be added to:
- Ableism
- Abuse
- Ageism
- Anti-Semitism
- Biphobia
- Colonialism
- Conversion therapy
- Discrimination
- Fatphobia
- Forced displacement
- Forced medical procedures
- Homelessness
- Homophobia
- Imperialism
- Incarceration
- Islamophobia
- Isolation
- Lateral Violence
- Misogyny
- Murder
- Non-consent
- Performative allyship
- Pinkwashing
- Poverty
- Racism
- Sanism
- Sex work exclusionary feminists (SWERFs)
- Sexual violence
- Transphobia
- Trans-exclusionary feminism (TERFs)
- Violence
- Violence against sex workers
- Warfare
- Xenophobia
This list can always be added to as people read through and/or review these resources.
- Readings/Books/Zines:
- The Missing Colors of the Rainbow: Black Queer Resistance | Elena Kiesling | 2017
- Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems | Audre Lorde, with a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge, introduction by Sara Ahmed | 1934-1992
- Before They Kill Me First | Hunter Shackelford | 2020
- Articles:
- DIRECTORY OF RESOURCES FOR BLACK LIBERATION | QUEER|ART
- A conversation on white supremacy and racism in the queer community | San Francisco AIDS Foundation | 2017
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/Books/zines:
- Articles:
- The Biphobic Nonsense of “Straight Presenting” and Excluding Bi People From LGBTQ+ Spaces
- We need to talk about biphobia
- Rewriting the Narrative of Bisexual People of Color and Indigenous People: Introduction to the Special Issue
- The pansexual revolution?
- What’s the Real Difference between Bi- and Pansexual?
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/Books/Zines:
- Articles:
- LGBTQ PEOPLE, DRUG USE & HARM REDUCTION
- In the opioid crisis, young queer and trans men are navigating risk reduction on their own
- Gender-Informed Prevention & Harm Reduction for Substance Use
- PRACTICAL STEPS TO CENTER TRANS AND NON-BINARY PEOPLE IN HARM REDUCTION SPACES
- Solidarity, Not Charity: Mutual Aid in LGBTQ+ Drug-Using Communities
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organizations/ Activists/Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/Books/zines:
- Articles:
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/Book/Zines:
- Articles:
- Podcasts:
- A Mosque For LGBTQ Muslims
- Queer Theology (Christian)
- Videos:
- Organizations/Activists/ artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Affirm United
- Salaam Canada
- LGBTQ Religious Archives Network
- Shir Libeynu
- Keshet Online Equality Directory
- The Rev. angel Kyodo williams Sensei
- Mahdia Lynn
- Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons
- Abby Stein
- The Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart
- The Rev. Nancy Petty
- The Rev. Frederick Davie
- Rabbi Rachel Timoner
- Drew Konow
- Reading/ Book/Zines:
- Article:
- Trans Kids As Young As 3 Understand Their Gender Identity: Study, Are queer teens and their parents doing better now than 15 years ago? It’s complicated
- LGBTQ+ Youth Are Homeless In Staggering Numbers, But Support Is Slim
- DO BETTER: 2SLGBTQ+ Youth Recommendations for Change in Ontario
- The Intergenerational Family Relationships of Grandparents and GLBQ Grandchildren
- Young Trans Children Know Who They Are
- Podcast:
- Videos:
- Radical Inclusion and Creating Space for BIPOC Queer Youth
- Cultural Competence and LGBTQ Kids
- Voices of Transgender Adolescents in Healthcare
- Walking in your truth as an LGBT youth | Daniella Carter
- THE GRAPEVINE | A CONVERSATION WITH BLACK LGBTQ MILLENNIALS | S4E22
- ‘Ask Me’: What LGBTQ Students Want Their Professors to Know
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/ Books/ Zines:
- Articles:
- Educate & Activate: Ally vs. Accomplice
- Holy shit, being an ally isn’t about me!
- Allies, Accomplices, and Saviors: Knowing the Difference to Maximize Impact
- 10 ways to be an ally to Black LGBT people
- “Accomplices”
- Ally is a verb: Trans* and Two-Spirit Allyship
- How to Tell the Difference Between Real Solidarity and ‘Ally Theater’
- Opinion: Call yourself an LGBT ally? Here’s how to actually be one.
- We Can’t Call Ourselves Allies; We Have to Do The Work
- Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How
- FOR OUR WHITE FRIENDS DESIRING TO BE ALLIES
- 8 Ways to be a better ally to LGBT Disabled people | Stonewall Org
- INCLUSION & ETIQUETTE | Netroots Nation
- The Problem With Calling Yourself An Ally, According to a Black Activist |
- GUIDE TO ALLYSHIP
- Paige Galette: Confronting racism from the workplace to the campground (includes audio recording)
- Podcasts:
- 1.7 – Allyship? White saviours? Not My Problem! | Not My Problem Podcast
- Allyship with LGBTQIA+ Youth Throughout Pandemic | Attempted Adults Podcast
- S01E12: Trans rights movement and allyship. Ft. Jamal Siddiqui | Intersectional Feminism—Desi Style!
- Spicy Sexism: Microagressions, Performativity & Trans | Loud, Angry & Not Sorry
- EP #21: The Road Ahead: The Way Forward w. Dr. David Campt | Active Allyship…it’s more than a #hashtag!”
- Videos:
- What Is Performative Allyship?
- Social Justice and Community Engagement CLIP – D-L Stewart Allyship/Accompliceship
- LGBTQIA 🏳️🌈 People need Accomplices not Allies!
- Turn Performative Wokeness Into Allyship | Jezebel
- Leveraging Your White Privilege and Becoming an Ally
- Ally vs Accomplice To Trans Community
- Organization/, Activists/Artists/ People/ groups to know:
- Readings/Books/zines:
- Articles:
- Cripping Resistance, Claiming Ourselves: Three Interviews with Sick/Disabled QTBIPOC Artists (DJNO Interviews)
- Disability Justice Is LGBT Justice: A Conversation with Movement Leaders
- LGBTQ+ Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Need Supportive Caregivers
- More Than One-Third of LGBTQ Adults Identify as Having a Disability
- LGBTQ People With Developmental Disabilities Need Respect, Privacy, and Access to Community
- Gender Dysphoria and People with Intellectual Disability
- Podcast:
- Videos:
- Disability And Sexuality (super intro)
- We Move Together: Disability Justice and Trans Liberation
- Lydia Brown – Disability Justice Intersection with Racial Justice, and Queer/Trans Liberation
- Intersectionality of Gender, Disability, and Indigenous Identity
- Mental Health in Queer & Trans BIPOC Communities
- Organizations:
- Activists/ artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/Books/Zines:
- Historical Information:
- QUEER CANADIAN HISTORY TIMELINE – PRE-COLONIZATION TO PRESENT
- An Archivist Explains The Deeply Radical Origins Of Pride
- Pride in Canada: A brief history
- Pride ‘firmly rooted in a tradition of protest’: Black LGBT community leaders on parade controversy
- Canada’s queer rights movement exists because of Black people — but that history is often ignored
- CBC Digital Archive
- The Queer Black History Of Rioting (Canada)
- ‘Our love is radical’: why trans activists lead the way in protest movements
- How LGBTQ Pride Month became a branded holiday
- A Different Kind Of Pride: Perspectives On 50 Years Of Celebration, Part 1
- The black transgender push to keep the fight alive at LGBT Pride
- 16 queer black pioneers who made history
- Here’s What Canada Can Learn From Hamilton, Ont.’s Far-Right Problem
- Videos Show Far-Right Hate Groups Launching Violent Attacks Inside Toronto’s Eaton Centre
- Calls for crackdown of hate groups after violent rally targets Pride Hamilton celebration
- Complicating our relationship with Pride (articles):
- How a Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder sees Canada,
- Pride Cannot—And Must Not—Exist Without Anti-Racist Work
- Pride has sold its soul to rainbow-branded capitalism
- The Problem With the ‘Rainbow-Washing’ of LGBTQ+ Pride
- Whose Pride is it Anyway? Anti-Blackness and Rainbow Capitalism vs the Struggle for Abolition and Liberation
- The Queers Left Behind: How LGBT Assimilation Is Hurting Our Community’s Most Vulnerable
- Normal as a Political Weapon: On Queer Assimilation and Pride Season
- Pride Month Too Often Overlooks LGBTQ Members With Disabilities
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artists/ accounts to know:
- Readings/Books/Zines:
- Articles:
- Social services barriers keep LGBTQ2S+ community from seeking help from abuse
- Lateral Violence In The Trans Community
- Over the Rainbow: Queer Assimilation, Queer Citizenship, State Violence
- Acephobia in the LGBT community
- To Sustain an LGBTQ Affirming Islamic Discourse, Lateral Violence Must End
- The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained
- WHY AREN’T MORE TRANS PEOPLE DENOUNCING TRUSCUM?
- Why Transmedicalists are Wrong
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organizations/Activists/ artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Listed within other categories, especially in Anti-Racism section & History & Relationships to Pride sections
- Readings/Books/ Zines:
- Articles:
- Surviving the stigma: Inside the life of a trans sex worker
- Solidarity Is Beautiful: Intersectionality of Sex Worker, Feminist, HIV, LGBT, and Social Justice Organizing
- Confessions of a Former SWERF
- Critique of the SWERF: On Feminism and Sex Work
- End the Criminalization of Sex Work!Decriminalize Sex Work
- Groups representing sex-trade workers launch legal challenge of Canada’s prostitution laws
- The Needs and Rights of Trans Sex Workers | Global Network of Sex Worker Projects
- Trans workers and gender variance-specific issues for trans workers
- Trans* Sex Worker Resources
- BILL C-36 IS A HATE LAW
- You Need Help: So Your Best Friend Is a SWERF
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organization/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/ Books/Zines:
- Article:
- Up to Date on Hate: Trans antagonism & TERFs (also a strong definitions resource)
- J.K. Rowling wrote a controversial statement about transgender people in response to being called a ‘TERF.’ Here’s what that means.
- 10 Societies That Recognize More Than Two Genders
- Gender Concepts around the World
- Why terms like ‘transgender’ don’t work for India’s ‘third-gender’ communities
- Not All Transgender People Have Dysphoria – And Here Are 6 Reasons Why That Matters
- On Oyèrónké Oyèwumí, colonial Afro-masculinities and the subjection of African cultural praxis in Inxeba
- Gender as Colonial Object The spread of Western gender categories through European colonization
- The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy
- J.K. Rowling and the White Supremacist History of “Biological Sex”
- Stop Gendering Your Baby
- Gender Anarchy Manifesto by Krishna Istha
- Podcast:
- Videos:
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/Books/Zines:
- Articles:
- (UNSETTLING) WHITE QUEER COMPLICITIES: TOWARD A PRACTICE OF DECOLONIZATION IN QUEER ORGANIZATIONS (2016)
- Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice
- Together Apart, Queer Indigeneities
- ‘No limitations’: Indigenous transgender storyteller Kiley May shapes her life as a kaleidoscope
- How colonialism has shaped the way we view sex and our sexual identities
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organization/ Activists/ artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/ Books/Zines:
- SOCIAL ISOLATION of Seniors: A Focus on LGBTQ Seniors in Canada (Toolkit)
- The facts on LGBT aging
- LGBT Older Adults: Facts at a Glance (US data, 2010)
- Improving the Lives of LGBT Older Adults
- UNDERSTANDING ISSUES FACING LGBT OLDER ADULTS
- LGBTQ Seniors: Health, Housing and Social Support: An Annotated Bibliography
- PROMOTING THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OF LGBT OLDER ADULTS
- Articles:
- LGBTQ Elders Made Our Lives Possible—Now We Must Care for Them
- Global Aging With Pride: International Perspectives on LGBT Aging
- Archive brings history of Nova Scotia’s aging LGBT community to life
- National study finds LGBT seniors face tougher old age
- ‘We’re going back into the closet’: LGBTQ seniors wary of being ‘out’ in long-term care facilities
- Aging Out: Moving towards queer and trans* competent care for seniors
- Staying Out of the Closet: LGBT Older Adults’: Hopes and Fears in Considering End-of-Life*
- End-of-Life Preparations Among LGBT Older Canadian Adults: The Missing Conversations
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Embracing Culturally Competent Care for LGBTQ Older Adults
- Make LGBTQ Elders Feel Welcome and Cared For: Join HRC and SAGE’s Long-term Care Equality Index
- LGBTQ & Aging Symposium: LGBTQ Older Adults & Social Isolation
- Aging as LGBT: Two Stories
- LGBTQ Older Adults and COVID-19: Tools, Supports and Solutions for Navigating the Pandemic
- SAGE Touches the Lives of LGBT Older Adults Across the Nation
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
- Readings/Books/Zines:
- Articles:
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artists/ Accounts to follow:
- 2 Spirited People of the 1st Nations
- 2 Spirits in Motion Society
- Jen Deerinwater
- Joshua Whitehead
- Arielle Twist
- Kiley May
- Chevy Rabbit
- Smokii Sumac
- Storme Webber
- Chrystos,
- Qwo-Li Driskill
- Shawnee Kish
- Connie Merasty
- Nenookaasi Ogichidaa
- Dr. James Makokis
- Ma Nee Chacaby
- Alec Butler
- Jeremy Duthcher
- Ravyn Wngz
- Glamma Kimaiyo
- Dr. Megan Scribe