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Nick Mulé

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Oct 10, 2023, 9:22:54 PM10/10/23
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Hi Everyone,

Forwarding a statement Queer Ontario signed onto.

Please consider signing.  Organizations and individuals are welcome to sign.

Thanks,

Nick

Nick Mulé
Member at Large,
Queer Ontario

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From: Gary Kinsman <gkin...@laurentian.ca>
Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:10 AM
Subject: Trans/Queer Defenders Against Islamophobia
To: Gary Kinsman <gkin...@laurentian.ca>


Please feel free to circulate and post. Thanks.


For Immediate Release – October 10th, 2023.

Trans/Queer Defenders Against Islamophobia.

We are queer and trans activists (including queer Muslims) who are united against recent right-wing campaigns against trans and queer young people and against violence and harassment directed against Muslims and people assumed to be Muslim, including the killings in Quebec City and London. We are opposed to inherently racist and transphobic networks like Save Canada, Action4Canada, Veterans4Freedom, Campaign Life Coalition, and the People’s Party of Canada that came to prominence, in the midst of or prior to the “Freedom Convoy” (some of these networks predate the pandemic).

Many of these groups are hostile not only to trans and queer people but to Islam and people they assume are Muslim—some of these groups have actively promoted Islamophobia. They are using their current alliances with more conservative Muslims only because this strengthens their hand against trans and queer defenders. Later, as we’ve seen with all Christian Nationalist and fascist groups, they will turn to exclude and oppress Muslims again.

We are fully in support of queer Muslims and their participation in all our communities. We support the statement “UPHOLDING HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL,” (https://openletter.earth/upholding-human-rights-for-all-866419a2signed by close to 700 Muslims in Canada, opposing Muslim participation in the right-wing anti-trans campaigns. These anti-trans protests also define young people as the property of their parents denying the autonomy and rights of young people, including that of Muslim young people.  

We refuse and vehemently denounce the instances of Islamophobia that have occurred from some trans/queer defenders in several locations across the country. We are committed to doing all we can to stop this kind of response and to oppose Islamophobia in all its forms. Many of us have been involved in defending Muslim people against attacks in the racist and Islamophobic “war on terror;” in support of refugee rights for Muslims; and supporting the Palestinian people against Israeli occupation and apartheid. We continue this fight against racism and colonialism. We will not be distracted by this hatred in our collective efforts towards our freedoms and we invite you to do the same. 

Solidarity against right-wing attacks on trans and queer young people and against all forms of Islamophobia!

Signed by:

Organizations:

No Pride in Policing Coalition.

CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) Ontario

Feminist Media Studio

Independent Jewish Voices

Mutual Aid Katarotwi Kingston

OPIRG Kingston

Queer Ontario

Students for Queer Liberation

Trans Bisexual Lesbian Gay Asexual at York (TBLGAY)

Za'atar Collective (Kingston).

 

Individuals:

Idil Abdillahi

Razan AISalah

F.S.E. Arps

Beverly Bain

Gwen Bartleman & Joanne Bealy, for Confronting Anti-Black Racism, Nova Scotia

Patrick Barnholden

Eris Blackburn

Kylie Brooks

Arthur Burrows

Matteo Cerilli

Dolores Chew, Faculty, Marianopolis College

Desmond Cole

Javier Davila

Sydney Derosi

Farzana Doctor, Author and Psychotherapist

OmiSoore Dryden, James R. Johnston (JRJ) Chair in Black Canadian Studies

Xan Dugenais, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.

Patrizia Gentile

Sue Goldstein

John Greyson, Video/film artist.

Fred Hahn, President, CUPE Ontario.

Leonard Halladay

Tom Hooper

Hedley Howes

Loretta Howard, University of Toronto

 

Rachel Jobson

 

Alessandra Jodhan

Christopher Karas, Karas Legal Services, P.C.

Gary Kinsman

Natalie Kouri-Towe.

Sabine Lebel

Suzanne Lenon

Jamie Magnusson

Steven Maynard

Lance T. McCready, University of Toronto

 

Laura Moberly

Nick Mulé

Nancy Nicol

Karen Pearlston

Jocelyn Piercey

Jake Pine

Indigo Poirier

Sabra Rezai

River Rossi

Cyni S.

Madalena Santos

Robert Teixeira

Ian Tian

Daniel Tirade

Alexis Shotwell

Chris Vance

Ardath Whynacht  

Benedicte Wigget

Anna Willats

A.J. Withers

Sarah Marie Elizabeth Worthman

Cynthia Wright

·        Institutions listed for identification purposes only.

For more information or to add your support contact Gary Kinsman at gkin...@laurentian.ca 

 


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