Teacher Curriculum Guide - By Media Type

Comics

• “It’s Not a Race”; transitioning and expectations about femininity [note: contains swearing] (link)

• “Growing up, coming out, and falling in love in eastern Canada”; silent comic series about being queer and trans (link)

• Coming to terms with being queer in China (link)

• Robot Hugs has many comics on gender and sexuality, as well as mental health (link)

• When visibility is dangerous for queer folks (link)

• Anti-black racism and biphobia at Pride events (link)

Photography

• “TransCuba”, a series on trans people in Cuba (link)

• Anti-homophobia poster from 1980 (link)

• HIV/AIDS activist postcard from 1988 (link)

• “Respect Your Elders”, a series on LGBTQ support for seniors (link)

• “The Bisexual History of HIV/AIDS activism” [note: contains swearing, sexual imagery] (link)

Blog posts & magazine articles

• A parent recounts their child’s gender journey (link)

• The importance of gender-neutral pronouns and remembering Indigenous language for gender (link)

• A brief history of Pride protests/celebrations in Canada (link)

• An intersex activist talks about the human rights violations they’ve suffered from medical professionals [note: discusses genital mutilation] (link)

  • The same activist’s statement for Intersex Awareness Day 2017 [note: discusses torture of enslaved people, genital mutilation, police violence] (link)

• #ThisIsWhatNonBinaryLooksLike aims to diversify social media representation of non-binary people (link)

• A brief history of Gay Asians of Toronto, a social and activist group from the 80s and 90s (link)

• Interviews with trans and non-binary Torontonians about beauty and makeup (link)

• “How to Explore Your Gender When You’re a Person Who Was Assigned Male at Birth” (link)

• “24 Actions You NEED to Take to Help Trans Women of Color Survive” (link)

• An example of employer and government discrimination against gay people, in the LGBT “purge” that occurred from the 1950s-1990s (link)

• TeenVogue’s “Gender Variance Around the World Over Time” (link)

  • Mexico (link)

  • Italy (link)

  • India (link)

  • Indonesia (link)

News Articles

• History of the trans flag (created in 1999), and it’s creator’s journey (link)

• Info about the burning of LGBT books in Nazi Germany, 1933 (link)

• “Genderfluid” in a Schrodinger’s crossword puzzle (link)

• The updated Pride flag from Philadelphia, and commentary on police brutality and racism in the queer community (link)

• Remembering the trans women of colour who participated in the original Stonewall Riot of 1969 (link)

  • Remembering the 1966 “Compton Cafeteria Riot” in San Francisco, led by drag queens and trans women (link)

• Celebrating the life of non-binary American activist Holly Boswell, who may have coined the term “transgender” (1970s-2017) (link)

• About Two-Spirit people in America (link)

• News article on death of Christine Jorgensen, possibly the first American to have gender-confirming surgery (link)

• “Ugandan LGBTQ+ activists announce plans for Pride following crackdown” that led to the 2017 Pride being cancelled (link)

• News report about kidnapping, human rights abuses, and murder of gay men in Russia (link)

Videos

• “What Does Two-Spirit Mean?”, a brief video on the history and usage among Indigenous people in North America (link)

• “A Place in the Middle”, short film from Hawai’i about gender non-conformity (link)

• Girl explains her use of gender-neutral language in Spanish (link)

• “What It’s Like to Be Intersex”: Buzzfeed Q&A with intersex young people (link)

• Animated short films on key points in Toronto’s queer history (link)

• “What is Intersectionality?” (link)

• “I Am: Trans People Speak” (link)

• “Two Spirits”, a documentary about a Navajo teen who was murdered for being two-spirit (link)

• Stories from queer Asian Americans, mostly youth (link)

• “There is No Name for This”, a documentary from 1997 about queer Americans of Chinese descent (link)

• “Two Spirits, One Voice”: short documentary/interview video about Two-Spirit people in Canada [note: contains description of racially-motivated physical assault, sexual abuse and suicide] (link)

General sex education

• Scarleteen.com (link)

  • “Navigating Consent”, a guide to starting conversations about sex (link)

• TeenHealthSource.com (link)

  • How to ask for consent (link)

• “Send The Right Message”, a Toronto-based anti-homophobia / transphobia / biphobia campaign (link)

• “Consent for Kids” video (link)

• MyGSA, a guide for students and school staff on how to create and maintain a GSA (link)

• A question-based reflection guide for parents, about gender, sexism, and sexuality (link)