The Think Tank is an editorial space managed by members of the Queer Ontario Think Tank Committee, which publishes works dealing with ‘queer,’ ‘anti-normative,’ and/or ‘controversial’ issues and ideas that it feels are not being given enough space or validity in more conventional publication venues. These works can be written essays, video works, songs, images, poetry, spoken word, or any other new or developing formats.

The viewpoints shared here are not neccessarily those of Queer Ontario, but are nevertheless featured to provoke thought, discussion, and further questioning to assist Queer Ontario in its ongoing work in social and political analysis.

The published works generally fit into three main categories:

1. Pieces that are in line with Queer Ontario’s Mission and Vision, embodying its liberationist, sex-positive, and anti-oppressive values.

2. Pieces that address issues or ideas that are relevant to queer and trans lives, like those outlined in Queer Ontario’s Issues page; and

3. Pieces that challenge the way we come to imagine ourselves, the world, and the things we say or think about it/us.

Indeed, we have a particular affinity for mind-bending and controversial works.

A Note on the potential ‘controversiality’ of the works and our commitment to keeping them published in the face of public uproar

We published the works on this website because we felt that the ideas, issues, or themes expressed therein were important to expanding and challenging the ways in which we as individuals — and as a society — experience, think about, theorize, understand, and imagine ourselves and the world around us.

We expect visitors to truly reach beyond their comfort zones — and their notions of how things ‘are’ or should be — and to recognize that, by virtue of the fact that the piece has been produced, there are individuals in this world who have an entirely different experience or conceptualization or understanding of the world; and that these views should be recognized, respected, engaged, and validated.

Individuals who are in any way ‘bothered’ or ‘distraught’ by a work are welcome to write or produce a response to the work in question, be it through a comment in the comments section of the work or through a formal rebuttal submission.

More Information

To head over to the Think Tank website, click here
or visit thinktank.queerontario.org

To read the Think Tank’s Editorial Guidelines, click here
or visit thinktank.queerontario.org/editorial

For information on how to submit a work, click here
or visit thinktank.queerontario.org/submissions