Intersecting Futures Lab

Published purpose

Through this 12-month project, Intersecting Futures Lab will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. The project will begin by building its own organizational capacity to become a legally constituted not-for-profit organization, recruiting members to its Board of Directors, engaging stakeholders, and determining its revenue needs. It will also address identified discrepancies between the economic success and labour attachment of 2SLGBTQI+ self-identified people and their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts through reimagining financial literacy, work-readiness, and entrepreneurship supports through uniquely queer lenses. The project will include the audit, creation, and pilot of culturally relevant resources, establishing a 2SLGBTQI+ youth network, recruitment and skilling of said youth network and 2SLGBTQI+ adult mentors, and incubation of change-making projects by youth cohorts.