Toronto Queer party Strapped.TO continues to create innovative space for virtual community building. — by Rebekah Robinson Author’s Note: Rebekah is a Black queer woman and a graduate of the University of Toronto. Currently, she works as a Podcast Producer with Hart House Stories, which produces a weekly radio show on CIUT 89.5FM. …

by Daniella Barreto Author’s Note: People of many gender identities and sexual orientations engage in sex work. This piece addresses some of the systemic barriers that cis and trans women in Canada can experience and refers to research done predominantly among women sex workers. The author is a Black cis…

After my vaginoplasty, I found renewed pleasure, purpose and better sexual health through my kinks. — by Beauty In Perversion Author’s Note: BeautyInPerversion is a trans activist, feminist, and writer, living in the GTA. She writes extreme kink/BDSM fiction here. Content Notes: Explicit material, surgery, medical procedures, BDSM, sexual harassment. It’s 4:30 pm, and it’s time for my next dilation. Back in November 2018, a surgeon…

by Jessica Author’s note: We have to be willing to have uncomfortable conversations about reproductive health with our youth. We have to have conversations about consent, unsafe sex, about police brutality, about our rights as human beings. Every day, we are learning from the world and with love, we can…

A young woman’s journey from internalized stigma related to herpes to self-love and self-acceptance. — by Anonymous Content Note: Discussion of STIs It has taken me 7 years to write this article, and even this, the discerning reader may note, is written anonymously. …

A comic. — by D Chouk Content Note: Homophobia.

by Chloe Content Note: Childhood exploration of self-stimulation, masturbation. I was nine. My favourite things in life at this point, (in no particular order) were: my little baby brother Conner, my friends, my hair, lesbian porn, and The Proud Family. Now, this was before I knew what Pornhub was (I…

by Trisha Author’s Note: The story is structured after “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, whose aim with the story was to satirize romance tropes. The author of this story chose this format in order to do the same for stereotypes behind gender presentation — for example, the things people assume…

Overcoming religious shame into authentic living. — by Chloe Content Note: Childhood sexual abuse (by someone of a similar age), hateful speech, homophobia, intimate partner violence “Do you want to play house?” The words would jolt me every time, even now in adulthood. See, playing house wasn’t really a question anymore. And sometimes, we would cut the…