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Beneath all the rhetoric, the issue is about fears that affirmation might enable or "encourage" someone to be gay or trans.

What a "No Pro Homo" policy looks like, and why its failure hasn't stopped the fight against anti-homophobia education in North America.

On how the far right feels persecuted by the Day of Silence, and wants the word "homophobia" banned as hate speech.

Jer's Vision honoured youth role models and inspired youth activists to speak out against queerphobia

On the Activist Toolkit Occupy roundup: Guides, tech tools and workshops for every occupation.

Carole Pope has returned with Landfall, a highly eclectic recording that shows a more mature artist still completely in command of her considerable voice, lyrically as nimble as ever.

Did Conservative MP Dean Allison attempt to link transsexual women with sexual predators on the floor of Parliament?

This week on the Activist Toolkit roundup: How to organize a seed swap, free Occupy lectures, intersectionality and more!

Exile and Pride is a memoir by activist, author and poet Eli Clare, who moves through the world as a white transguy (formerly lesbian) with cerebral palsy.

On the dilemma of Jenna Talackova, the Canadian beauty pageant contestant who was disqualified from the 2012 Miss Universe Canada competition because she had been born physically male.

This week, on the Activist Toolkit weekly roundup: tech tools to end violence and get organized, finding local banks, DIY sustainable street art and more!

This week on Activist Toolkit roundup: Promoting trans positivity, day to eliminate racism, citizen journalism and a ton of tech tools!

What is radical consent? In this episide: how radical consent can be used in sex-positive dialogue, radical consent workshops, plus an interview with Ottawa's Luna Allison.

This week on the Activist Toolkit, it's International Women's Day! Plus, Henry Morgentaler's legacy, radical doulas, checking privilege, #IWD events across Canada and more!

In this week's Activist Toolkit roundup: Creative protest ideas, recruiting future activists, learning to trust after #robocalls and more!

On this week's Activist Toolkit weekly roundup: How to lobby, use QR codes in campaigns and understand the significance of blackface.

A listing of a few of the great Black Canadian authors who have shaped or continue to define our Canadian cultural landscape.

Experiences of aboriginal trans folks, eroticizing safer sex, trauma and homelessness, new apps for organizing and more!

Ending gender violence, remembering missing and murdered aboriginal women, banning bottled water, using tumblr for activists and more!

How can sex workers organize? This episode looks at legal rights, community building and stopping street sweeps, plus an interview from Ottawa sex workers' union POWER.

On February 8, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear two landmark cases about HIV, sex and the criminal law. It is time to stop persecuting people living with HIV who have safe and consensual sex.

Coalition-building, the International Day of Solidarity for Leonard Peltier, unionizing your university, taking on non-violent street actions, workshops and more!

This past October, the Urban Alliance on Race Relations hosted a lively youth panel which discussed gender-based violence, bullying, homophobia and racism.

Harper's speech in Davos covers two areas: job creation and economic stability, and managing immigration. Read on for an analysis of the speech, its policy implications and some ideas to stop Harper.

New regulations may potentially ban many transsexual, transgender and intersexed people from boarding a plane in Canada