Beyond the
Rainbow Resource
The Beyond the Rainbow Resource Syllabus is a collection of online self-education resources covering topics across various 2S&LGBTQQIA+ experiences, identities, and communities. Within each topic includes recommendations of books, zines, articles, podcasts, and videos, as well as organizations, activists, artists, and accounts to follow.
Anti-Racism
Readings/Books/Zines:
- The Missing Colors of the Rainbow: Black Queer Resistance | Elena Kiesling | 2017
Articles:
- DIRECTORY OF RESOURCES FOR BLACK LIBERATION | QUEER|ART
- A conversation on white supremacy and racism in the queer community | San Francisco AIDS Foundation | 2017
Podcasts:
Videos:
Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)
Allyship & Accomplices
Readings/ Books/ Zines:
Articles:
- Educate & Activate: Ally vs. Accomplice
- Holy shit, being an ally isn’t about me!
- Allies, Accomplices, and Saviors: Knowing the Difference to Maximize Impact
- 10 ways to be an ally to Black LGBT people
- “Accomplices”
- Ally is a verb: Trans* and Two-Spirit Allyship
- How to Tell the Difference Between Real Solidarity and ‘Ally Theater’
- Opinion: Call yourself an LGBT ally? Here’s how to actually be one.
- We Can’t Call Ourselves Allies; We Have to Do The Work
- Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How
- FOR OUR WHITE FRIENDS DESIRING TO BE ALLIES
- 8 Ways to be a better ally to LGBT Disabled people | Stonewall Org
- INCLUSION & ETIQUETTE | Netroots Nation
- The Problem With Calling Yourself An Ally, According to a Black Activist |
- GUIDE TO ALLYSHIP
- Paige Galette: Confronting racism from the workplace to the campground (includes audio recording)
Podcasts:
- 1.7 – Allyship? White saviours? Not My Problem! | Not My Problem Podcast
- Allyship with LGBTQIA+ Youth Throughout Pandemic | Attempted Adults Podcast
- S01E12: Trans rights movement and allyship. Ft. Jamal Siddiqui | Intersectional Feminism—Desi Style!
- Spicy Sexism: Microagressions, Performativity & Trans | Loud, Angry & Not Sorry
- EP #21: The Road Ahead: The Way Forward w. Dr. David Campt | Active Allyship…it’s more than a #hashtag!”
Videos:
Organization/, Activists/Artists/ People/ groups to know:
Aromanticism & Asexuality
Bisexuality & Biphobia
Readings/Books/zines:
Articles:
- The Biphobic Nonsense of “Straight Presenting” and Excluding Bi People From LGBTQ+ Spaces
- We need to talk about biphobia
- Rewriting the Narrative of Bisexual People of Color and Indigenous People: Introduction to the Special Issue
- The pansexual revolution?
- What’s the Real Difference between Bi- and Pansexual?
Podcasts:
Videos:
Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
Disability & Mental Health
Readings/Books/zines:
Articles:
- Cripping Resistance, Claiming Ourselves: Three Interviews with Sick/Disabled QTBIPOC Artists (DJNO Interviews)
- Disability Justice Is LGBT Justice: A Conversation with Movement Leaders
- LGBTQ+ Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Need Supportive Caregivers
- More Than One-Third of LGBTQ Adults Identify as Having a Disability
- LGBTQ People With Developmental Disabilities Need Respect, Privacy, and Access to Community
- Gender Dysphoria and People with Intellectual Disability
Podcast:
Videos:
- Disability And Sexuality (super intro)
- We Move Together: Disability Justice and Trans Liberation
- Lydia Brown – Disability Justice Intersection with Racial Justice, and Queer/Trans Liberation
- Intersectionality of Gender, Disability, and Indigenous Identity
- Mental Health in Queer & Trans BIPOC Communities
Organizations:
Activists/ artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
Genders, Trans Folks & Gender Theory
Readings/ Books/Zines:
Article:
- Up to Date on Hate: Trans antagonism & TERFs (also a strong definitions resource)
- J.K. Rowling wrote a controversial statement about transgender people in response to being called a ‘TERF.’ Here’s what that means.
- 10 Societies That Recognize More Than Two Genders
- Gender Concepts around the World
- Why terms like ‘transgender’ don’t work for India’s ‘third-gender’ communities
- Not All Transgender People Have Dysphoria – And Here Are 6 Reasons Why That Matters
- On Oyèrónké Oyèwumí, colonial Afro-masculinities and the subjection of African cultural praxis in Inxeba
- Gender as Colonial Object The spread of Western gender categories through European colonization
- The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy
- J.K. Rowling and the White Supremacist History of “Biological Sex”
- Stop Gendering Your Baby
Podcast:
Videos:
Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
Indigenous Solidarity
- Readings/Books/Zines:
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
- Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature (Free version)
- What Do We Mean by Queer Indigenous Ethics?
- Indigenous Sexualities: Resisting Conquest and Translation
- Articles:
- (UNSETTLING) WHITE QUEER COMPLICITIES: TOWARD A PRACTICE OF DECOLONIZATION IN QUEER ORGANIZATIONS (2016)
- Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice
- Together Apart, Queer Indigeneities
- ‘No limitations’: Indigenous transgender storyteller Kiley May shapes her life as a kaleidoscope
- How colonialism has shaped the way we view sex and our sexual identities
- Podcasts:
- Indigiqueer (All My Relations Podcast)
- Medicine for the Resistance
- Scott Morgensen, “Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
- Videos:
- FRED Talks | Candi Brings Plenty, Queer Indigenous, Two Spirit, cis Oglala Lakota Sioux Activist
- Pre-colonial attitudes to sex and gender fluidity | On the Rag: Sex positivity,
- ‘We Thrive’ Afro-Indigenous Lived Experiences Panel
- Organization/ Activists/ artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
Older Populations Support
- Readings/ Books/Zines:
- SOCIAL ISOLATION of Seniors: A Focus on LGBTQ Seniors in Canada (Toolkit)
- The facts on LGBT aging
- LGBT Older Adults: Facts at a Glance (US data, 2010)
- Improving the Lives of LGBT Older Adults
- UNDERSTANDING ISSUES FACING LGBT OLDER ADULTS
- LGBTQ Seniors: Health, Housing and Social Support: An Annotated Bibliography
- PROMOTING THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OF LGBT OLDER ADULTS
- Articles:
- LGBTQ Elders Made Our Lives Possible—Now We Must Care for Them
- Global Aging With Pride: International Perspectives on LGBT Aging
- Archive brings history of Nova Scotia’s aging LGBT community to life
- National study finds LGBT seniors face tougher old age
- ‘We’re going back into the closet’: LGBTQ seniors wary of being ‘out’ in long-term care facilities
- Aging Out: Moving towards queer and trans* competent care for seniors
- Staying Out of the Closet: LGBT Older Adults’: Hopes and Fears in Considering End-of-Life*
- End-of-Life Preparations Among LGBT Older Canadian Adults: The Missing Conversations
- Podcasts:
- THE YOUTH / ELDERS PODCAST – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
- Call Me Mother
- STONEWALL OUTLOUD
- The Log Books
- Susan Messina on Podcast: Move or Improve? – Challenges of LGBTQ Aging
- Videos:
- Embracing Culturally Competent Care for LGBTQ Older Adults
- Make LGBTQ Elders Feel Welcome and Cared For: Join HRC and SAGE’s Long-term Care Equality Index
- LGBTQ & Aging Symposium: LGBTQ Older Adults & Social Isolation
- Call Me Mother
- LGBTQ Older Adults and COVID-19: Tools, Supports and Solutions for Navigating the Pandemic
- SAGE Touches the Lives of LGBT Older Adults Across the Nation
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artist(s)/ account(s) to follow:
Two Spirit People
- Readings/Books/Zines:
- Urban Indigenous Youth Reframing Two-Spirit
- Two-Spirits Belong Here: An Anthology of works by Two-Spirit Transgender, Intersex, & Gender Non-Conforming Native American Artists
- Articles:
- Re-Affirming Indigenous Citizenships: Two Spirit Family-Making And The Future Of Belonging
- 5 Two-Spirit Heroes Who Paved the Way for Today’s Native LGBTQ+ Community
- Podcasts:
- Videos:
- Trans And Native: Meet The Indigenous Doctor Giving Them Hope | AJ+
- Video: 2Spirit Stories: Building Inclusive Intersectional Movements
- Organizations/ Activists/ Artists/ Accounts to follow:
- 2 Spirited People of the 1st Nations
- 2 Spirits in Motion Society
- Jen Deerinwater
- Arielle Twist
- Kiley May
- Chevy Rabbit
- Smokii Sumac
- Storme Webber
- Chrystos
- Qwo-Li Driskill
- Shawnee Kish
- Connie Merasty
- Nenookaasi Ogichidaa
- Dr. James Makokis
- Ma Nee Chacaby
- Alec Butler
- Jeremy Duthcher
- Ravyn Wngz
- Glamma Kimaiyo
- Dr. Megan Scribe