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Healing Out Loud: Queer Resilience, Rest & Radical Self-Love

Healing isn’t one-size-fits-all. For queer, trans, Two-Spirit, and BIPOC folks, the path to healing often looks layered, complex, and personal.


This Pride Month, we’re touching on the kind of healing that doesn’t always get talked about, the kind rooted in rest, community, and quiet acts of survival.
This Pride Month, we’re touching on the kind of healing that doesn’t always get talked about, the kind rooted in rest, community, and quiet acts of survival.

We talk specifically about BIPOC queer and Two-Spirit folks because these communities often live at the intersection of multiple forms of oppression, racism, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, ableism and still don’t see themselves reflected in mainstream wellness spaces. That erasure can be isolating. It can make healing feel even harder.

But the truth is: we’ve always found ways to take care of each other. Through culture. Through chosen family. Through music, movement, and storytelling. Through simply surviving.


Healing here doesn’t have to be loud. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Sometimes it looks like sleeping in, unfollowing accounts that drain you, taking a walk, starting therapy, or just saying “I don’t have it in me today.”


And for those moments when you need a little extra support, here are some resources—created with and for our communities—that center care for BIPOC queer, trans, and Two-Spirit folks across Ontario and Canada:


1. Across Boundaries – Mental Health Services for Racialized Communities](Toronto/GTA)

Provides holistic and culturally safe mental health care for Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities, including 2SLGBTQ+ folks. A space that understands how identity and oppression shape our healing.🔗 acrossboundaries.ca



2. Native Youth Sexual Health Network (Canada-wide)

Indigenous youth-led organization that supports Two-Spirit and queer youth through a cultural, community-rooted lens. Focused on wellness, harm reduction, and decolonized care practices.🔗 nativeyouthsexualhealth.com


3. Healing in Colour (Canada-wide)

A therapist directory designed for BIPOC folks to find culturally affirming mental health support. Many therapists listed specialize in working with queer and trans clients.🔗 healingincolour.com

4. BlackCAP – Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention(Toronto/GTA)

Supports the health and wellness of Black queer and trans communities in Toronto through counselling, housing assistance, and HIV support—all rooted in Black liberation and community care.🔗 blackcap.ca


We don’t heal in isolation. We heal in connection with ourselves, each other, and the land we’re on. So whether you’re navigating mental health, identity, grief, or just trying to catch your breath, you deserve rest. You deserve ease. You deserve to be supported.

And if you’re ready to share your story we’re listening. The Healing Thread is a space for our stories to live, grow, and remind others: you’re not alone.

Because healing is queer. Healing is collective. Healing is revolutionary.

 








 
 
 

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