“As #PrideMonth comes to a close, we want to highlight the interconnection of gender oppression, the climate crisis, and the ways these social issues are a product of #Colonization. 

Climate justice is inherently tied to 2SLGBTQIAP+ rights. The suppression of our 2SLGBTQIAP+ relations has long been connected to the exploitation of land and water, body autonomy, and sovereignty and Indigenous Peoples. The Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny imposed on Indigenous Peoples was, and continues to be, used as justification for colonization and genocide.

Our ancestral understandings of the interconnection between cultural and spiritual roles that Two Spirit, Trans, and gender nonconforming people have within communities are difficult to translate to dominant and colonial languages. It was settler colonial understandings that forced us into the binaries, but pre-colonization our communities celebrated the diversity of people and their special gifts.

It’s also important for us to always remember that the first pride was a riot—an act of resistance to oppression. Liberation of 2SLGBTQIAP+ relations is a movement founded by resistance to violence and attempts to erase Queer and Trans Black and Brown bodies. We honour the work that has come before while acknowledging where we still need to go—continuing to rise up, take to the streets, be loud, & disrupt systems and narratives of oppression. We MUST demand change & remain diligent to future generations because they ARE our future. Queer youth deserve to become queer elders. Be PROUD of who you are—YOU are your ancestors’ wildest dreams. 

Liberate Queerness, Resist Colonialism & Disrupt Oppression! ”