It Gets Better Canada
Welcome! Here you’ll find inspiring blog posts, toolkits, and other resources. Browse our inspiring It Gets Better videos and spotlights shared with us, along with our original content series! We hope the diversity of our community inspires and empowers you. You are not alone!
Explore what thriving beyond the binary looks like. We sat down with AL, a queer non-binary content creator to learn how they were able to be their authentic self by embracing life outside the binary and asked for their advice to non-binary youth. Thriving Beyond the Binary “Be authentic to
An uplifting piece written by Jack, encouraging, those who identify as fat, queer, and trans celebrating their existence and their validity! A love letter to fat , queer and trans people Dear fat queer and trans people , I love you. I love how your back rolls look like waves
One of my first memories of June’s National Indigenous Peoples Month (previously known as National Aboriginal Month) was attending a pow-wow and round dance at Central Tech School in Toronto with the First Nations School of Toronto. This gathering featured youth dancers, drummers, and elders in the city who wanted
When I first showed my most authentic self to my mother, she didn’t quite know how to process this kind of news. I’d always used my clothes and hair to express myself. My sisters would paint my nails, my mother would let me pick whatever temporary hair color I wanted
From a young age, fashion is something I always found super fascinating; I can remember various family photoshoots I did as a kid and even some iconic portraits of young me. Whether it was strutting in my mom’s heels or experimenting with her makeup, I always found myself being gravitated to
We Need to Bring Back Lesbian Centered Spaces It’s no secret that there has been an upward trend in disappearing queer spaces across Canada. With the pandemic and rise of condos taking over long-withstanding queer spaces, where do members of the 2SLGBTQ+ have left for their own? A quick Google search
Roots in the Ground: The love and beauty of Grassroots Trans Resistance Queer Trans youth have been fighting for centuries to gain visibility and protections
How to Find Your Authentic Voice Online Change the world, one uncomfortable conversation at a time. This is what I have been telling myself for the last two years. I began my journey online in 2020, during the start of the global COVID pandemic, as a Black Cisgender Heterosexual Woman.
QUEERNESS ON THE PRAIRIES Oki and kamusta everyone! My name is Kelsey, but you can call me Kels. I’m a queer Pilipina-Canadian and I’ve spent my whole life on the prairies here in Alberta, Canada. I run a video podcast called Queer in Alberta where I interview 2SLGBTQIA+ Albertans from
“Coming Out”: Community Had My Back There are a lot of times where I look at my life in a ‘before and after’ type of lens. What I mean when I say this is that for so long, my identity as a disabled queer person was something that I went
