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This week on the Queer Ontario Think Tank, we have Erika Moen’s “Queer”, a comic strip articulating Moen’s experiences with biphobia in the LGBT community. The original comic strip can be found on Erika Moen’s website and is also available in French (both links have been provided for you on the Think Tank website). A Spanish version is currently in the works, t00.
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The project can be viewed at http://thinktank.queerontario.org/2012/09/erika-moen-queer
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Note that it depicts nude bodies and contains biphobic and homophobic language.
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On Wednesday, August 1, 2012, Queer Ontario submitted the following [first] document to Alexandra Schmidt, Senior Policy Advisor for ServiceOntario, in response to ServiceOntario’s consultation document regarding an amended criteria for a change of sex designation on an Ontario Birth Registration. As expected, Queer Ontario was not one of the organizations contacted to provide feedback on the document, but we were thankfully alerted to it, five days before the due date, by a firm supporter. Unfortunately, given the short timeline, we were unable to fully enact our discussion and consensus process, so the document we submitted was not given our full critical attention. Therefore, we are providing a second document that puts forward a critical analysis of the sex designation process, and highlights/elucidates the points made in our original submission.
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Indeed, we felt that the questions and terms put forward by ServiceOntario would replicate the problems already present with the sex designation process, since it still conflated “sex” with “gender” and ignores the concept of a “sex identity”. We are positive our recommendations would be equally beneficial for transsexual, transgender, intersex, sex-neutral, gender-queer, two-spirited, bi-gendered, and gender-neutral people alike.
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Queer Ontario’s Submission to ServiceOntario:

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This week on the Queer Ontario Think Tank, we have Margaret Robinson’s “Two-Spirited Sexuality and White Universality,” an essay that frames two-spirited identity not as a First Nations term for LGBTQ, but rather as a series of distinct sexual systems that challenge the universal truth claims of White sexual identity systems.

It was originally published in the Journal of Postcolonial Networks, at http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/06/02/two-spirited.

Margaret Robinson holds a PhD in theology from the University of St. Michael’s College and is a researcher with the Re:searching for LGBTQ Health team at the Centre for Addiction and Mental health in Toronto. She is a General Editor with the Journal of Postcolonial Networks.
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Submission Note

If you, yourself, are interested in submitting a work to the Queer Ontario Think Tank, feel free to review our submission guidelines here http://thinktank.queerontario.org/submissions, or simply email your work and a short description to info@queerontario.org. We will let you know if we need any additional material or information.

All the best,

The Queer Ontario Think Tank Editorial Committee
info@queerontario.org
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