2SLGBTQ+ Capacity Building

Workshop Description:

This 3-hour workshop will act as an add on/review of the Community Conversation. Participants will also go more in depth about 2SLGBTQ+ topics, histories and experiences. Folks will go through colonial impacts on gender diversity and sexual orientations and 2Spirit identities. Participants will go over aspects of transitioning, the 2SLGBTQ+ acronyms and pronouns. This workshop will also utilise group sharing, storytelling and information sharing for all workshop registrants.

Facilitator Bio:

Teddy Syrette (Ozhawa Aanung Kwe - Yellow Star Woman) is a 2-Spirit, Anishinaabe artist of Batchewana First Nation near Sault Ste. Marie Ontario. Teddy uses they/them pronouns and is an artist advocate for 2-Spirit/Queer-Trans Indigenous People and their communities. They have a diploma in Social Service Work-Native Specialization from Sault College (Go Cougars!) and their background is in social justice, theatre and bingo. Teddy began public speaking about First Nation and LGBTQ+ rights in their mid-twenties, but has been advocating since they were fifteen years old. They have travelled and spoken in many communities across Turtle Island. Teddy has worked with multiple universities, colleges, high schools, community centres and First Nation communities. Teddy established their business 2Spirit Anishinaabe Storytelling and Advocacy in February of 2021. They currently live in their home territory of Bawating, and have 2 dogs, a pug named Hortus and a jack russell named Jack.

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