Welcome to Queer of Colour

2 min

Stories are powerful. They educate, illuminate, inspire. They give us windows into worlds we’ve never known. They reflect our own experiences and identities back to us and help us feel seen.

But whose stories get our attention? For a long time, the only stories deemed worthy were white, straight, male, heteronormative, cisgender, and ableist. Stories about people of colour, Black people, Indigenous people, queer and trans people, disabled people and other marginalized populations were relegated to the sidelines and ignored.

Our stories have always existed.

Our storytellers have woven our tales for centuries.

Contrary to popular belief, our stories have always existed. Our storytellers have woven our tales for centuries, but Western society chose not to acknowledge them. The wealth of knowledge, culture, language, and spirituality contained in these stories have been systematically oppressed and made inaccessible to us. But we have not forgotten them—our souls crave them.  

Queer of Colour hopes to be a platform where those stories can flourish, where queer people of colour can tell our stories and be heard. We want to learn from the elders that came before us and connect with our contemporaries. We want to celebrate the successes of our community and grieve our losses. We want to tease out and delve into the diversity that exists beneath the labels, to explore our differences and our similarities.

Come and listen, learn, speak, and be inspired.

We want to be a space where we can come and listen, learn, speak, and be inspired.

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Queer of Colour features the stories of queer and trans Black, Indigenous/Two Spirit, and people of colour. It was motivated by Singing Out—Toronto’s largest LGBTQ chorus—and their Open Secrets project.

Feature Photo by Delia Giandeini on Unsplash