LSPIRG has made an excellent campaign and zine about learning about the Indigenous land we live on, its treaties and how we need to go beyond land acknowledgements.

SPECTRUM has put together a thorough directory for the LGBTQ directory in Waterloo-Wellington, Ontario.

We love zines! Check out pdf versions of zines: Consent is Part of My Operating System (NW Break the Silence), Learning Good Consent (Cindy Crabb Ed.). Or, scroll through Toronto Zine Library and Anchor Archive Zine Library for other zine content.

Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) has created culturally safe and trauma-informed sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection (STBBI) resources for Indigenous women, girls, gender diverse people and service providers to use and distribute.

Here are some (this is by no means a comprehensive list or in any particular order!) queer, empowering, body positive, inclusive, healing, justice, resilience, and/or survivor-centric Instagram accounts we love:

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* Femme Healing Collective 

* HCL 

* Pleasure Pie 

* Alok Menon

* Rupi Kaur

* NYSHN

* JUSTSEEDS

* Unapologetically Brown Series

* loveisloveislove project

* Vivek Shraya

* Ruby Allegra

* Frizz Kid

* Maggie's Toronto

* POC Online Classroom

* The CSPH

* Repeal Hyde Art Project

* Mia Mingus

* Micah Bazant

Consent Comes First Ryerson created this incredible adult colouring book filled with affirmations survivors and supporters of survivors need to hear. Print, colour and share around!

CATIE and The 519 have created a realistic, safer sex guide for anyone who identifies as a woman/womyn/girl/female/ feminine/femme but was assigned male at birth.

Land Body Defense is a collaborative, multi-year project that the Women’s Earth Alliance and Native Youth Sexual Health Network began in 2014. Check out their site and download the report and toolkit to learn about how environmental violence, gendered violence and colonialism are all connected.

The front of each card asks “Which would you choose?” and shows two situations: one abusive, one healthy. Each card illustrates a different form of abuse:  physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, financial, psychological, and stalking. There's insight on the specific form of abuse shown as well as warning signs of abuse to look out for. On the back, there is a list of Ontarian support resources.

The No More Project is youth collective based in Brantford Ontario aiming to engage with an empower youth to take a stand against gendered violence. 

"A PODCAST FOR STORIES + PRACTICES AT THE INTERSECTION OF COLLECTIVE HEALING + SOCIAL CHANGE"

A compiled list of community and activist resources that deconstruct, define, explore, and interrogate rape culture.

A podcast by Dr. Sharon Lamb and PhD student Madeline Brodt that does the work of troubling and thinking through consent education campaigns on post-secondary campuses.

This zine attempts to respond to the question: "What about the rapists?" through an anarchist approach to crime & justice.

Add or click on the pins on this interactive map to engage in stories of 2SLGBTQ+ love, experiences, resillience and community, and queer world-making (there are even stories pinned to Brantford and KW).

Check out this amazing printable deck of cards filled with encouraging statements. From validating your gender and sexuality to reminding you that your boundaries are important, Planned Parenthood Toronto has got your back.

Doin' It has a cell you can text your sexual health, gender & sexuality questions to--completely anonymously: 519-569-9521

"The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada."

A project about criminal harassment in Canada and stalking. The project outlines what to do if you suspect you are being stalked, and how to support people in your life who are experiencing stalking. The project was created by feminist sex educator Julie S. Lalonde and artist Ambivalently Yours. 

Rest for Resistance (R4R) is a digital resource created to uplift marginalized communities who are often restricted in gaining access to adequate healthcare and social support. Centring Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Asian, Middle Eastern, and multiracial persons, R4R offers a healing space for LGBTQA2S+ folks. R4R also aims to create a safer space for “namely trans & queer people of color, as well as other stigmatized groups such as sex workers, immigrants, persons with physical and/or mental disabilities, and those living at the intersections of all of the above.”

Chronic Sex discusses sex, sexuality, relationships and self-love by and for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses--a podcast, blog, social media and more.

CATIE and The 519 have created a realistic, safer sex guide for trans guys who are into men.

Comparisons can come in handy when trying to understand or explain consent. Here are a few of our faves. Cycling through Consent communicates consent's principles in an easy-to-understand way, and the Consent Castle is particularly helpful for emphasizing consent in relationships.

Draw The Line is an interactive campaign that challenges common myths about sexual violence and equips bystanders with information on how to intervene safely and effectively. Use these scenarios and discussion prompts to create dialogue.

Queering Sexual Violence is an anthology of essays and short stories, edited by Jennifer Patterson. "This collection disrupts the mainstream conversations about sexual violence and connects them to disability justice, sex worker rights, healing justice, racial justice, gender self-determination, queer & trans liberation and prison industrial complex abolition through reflections, personal narrative, and strategies for resistance and healing."

"THE FRAGILITY OF SAFETY: beyond the promise of #MeToo" an article posted on Bitch Media by Lisa Factora-Borchers

A compiled list of consent themed zines compiled by Broken Pencil that speak to the #MeToo movement

Follow the link on the image below for a list of resources we've compiled in response to Ford's limiting of access to prescriptions for people in Ontario under the age of 25. This page also details low cost birth control methods.

This handy list provides details regarding how to be an effective ally to sex workers from a Canadian context.

"TransformHarm.org is a resource hub about ending violence. It offers an introduction to transformative justice. Created by Mariame Kaba and designed by Joseph Lublink, the site includes selected articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more."