Queer Yukon Society

Published purpose

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to adress the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Queer Yukon Society will achieve this by developing educational resources and a resource database, strengthening and increasing regional network collaboration, engaging women, girls and gender diverse peoples with lived experiences who have needed to access support services, and incorporating focus groups and surveys to identify and change discriminatory policies within community organizations. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women's equality. This project will host 10 focus groups, 15 individual interviews, and three annual surveys with the clients of Yukon Women’s Organizations that will inform an annual action plan on LGBTQIA2S+ issues for women’s organizations in the Yukon to address harmful systemic homophobic and transphobic policies. Partnerships with Yukon Women’s Coalition, Yukon Status of Women Council and Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre will be enhanced, and in-tandem, community-based approaches will be implemented to address challenges and reduce gender discrimination.