Rowan Goldman (C3SVS Part-Time Coordinator) With the Trans Collective and C3SVS’s new gender-affirming gear grant out, let’s look at what gender-affirming gear is, and how the grant can help you. We will also take some time to discuss gender-affirming gear in an open, and judgment-free space. Gender-affirming gear are garments or items used to […]
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Rowan Goldman (CSSSVS Part-Time Coordinator) This pride month let’s take a second to think about the underrepresented identities within the LGBTQ2S+ community. Every pride month we open up conversations about gender and sexuality, but oftentimes we see a lack of information on some identities. While we love talking about all LGBTQ2S+ identities, this pride month
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Alec Momenee-DuPrie: Events and Campaigns Lead of The Trans Collective A message from the Trans Collective, supported by C3SVS: The recent incidents of sexual violence on campus is incredibly distressing and the TMU community at large needs to come together to work towards a safer campus community. One of the responses that has been posed
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Samantha DeFranco- C3SVS Coordinator Looking to do something to increase consent in your community? Check out these three letter writing templates from Possibility Seeds to start on your journey to creating positive change! 1) School Board Trustee Dear __________, My name is ______________ and I am writing to you today from _______ to
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Rowan Goldman (C3SVS Part-Time Coordinator) Do you know the origins of pride month or the pride parade? Do you know pride month commemorated the Stonewall riots? Well, this was an important part of the LGBTQ2S+ rights movement, but there is this and much more to the story that contributes to LGBTQ2S+ rights in the past,
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Rowan Goldman (Part Time Coordinator CSSSVS) Sexual self care is something that can be beneficial in so many ways. It can be a form of social, physical, emotional, and spiritual self-care. You may use it to get to know your body better and connect or reconnect with it. It can allow you to heal from
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Rowan Goldman (CSSSVS Part-Time Coordinator) As we explore our sexuality and feelings, getting to know your sexual organs is an important step in practicing safer sex. Regularly performing self-examinations of your sexual organs can help you stay healthy and notice symptoms of cancer or STIs early. By checking regularly you can get to know your
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Samantha DeFranco (CSSSVS Coordinator) Welcome to university, the place where many people first have the time and space to experiment with sex toys. Here at the Centre for Safer Sex and Sexual Violence Support we love sex toys as a way to learn about your own body, play with a partner or partners, or as
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Samantha DeFranco (CSSSVS Coordinator) A new school year often means new roommates, and those roommates might be people you weren’t friends with prior to you living together. People coming from different types of households often have different expectations around what is and isn’t acceptable in shared living spaces. This can leave one roommate very unhappy
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