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"LGBTQ+ people spend our whole lives coming out, or, maybe better put, becoming ourselves... But don’t feel pressured to come out if you’re not ready. Don’t feel like your queerness is defined by an announcement on social media"

National Coming Out Day: What You Should Know About Coming Out As LGBTQ+ Coming out is a process to be done on your terms.

"The fact that Paish, her fellow choreographers, and the twenty performers are willing and able to use dance and physical theatre to create this believable atmosphere and universe of people of various genders with intertwining motivations and needs, is impressive and commendable."

TONIGHT! Head on over to Metro Studio Theatre to see Passion and Performance's latest show, The Jungle Room! Thank you to John Manson for his amazing sneak peak behind the scenes.

TONIGHT: Passion and Performance presents “The Jungle Room” The Jungle Room, this year’s endeavor of Passion and Performance’s Production Class, hits stages this weekend in Victoria and Duncan, and next month in Kelowna. This piece, with show assembly, stor…

We’re still accepting late applications for mentors and participants to attend our retreat on October 12-14th before 9:00am Sunday! Don’t miss out on a great chance to meet fellow artists and have your work featured at UVic’s gallery!

Some important and tough questions about how we build community: “who cares about inclusivity when the majority of the power still lies in the hands of the most privileged? ... If I’ve learned anything in the past year, it’s that achieving justice requires all of us who possess relative degrees of privilege to question our learned standards of comfort.”

First It Was All About Diversity, Then Inclusion. Here's Why Neither Of Those Are Enough Structural redistribution is reparations in action. It’s repairing harm from the source; it’s solving a problem from its root.

Yummy! I want to try all of these! No-Bake Summer Desserts For When It's Way Too Hot Outside https://buff.ly/2tD07Gq

Yes! It can be a bit awkward at first, but practice makes it easier. Let's make our language more inclusive!

Glad Day Bookshop on Twitter “Language evolves. Evolve yours.”

This review makes me want to read this right now! FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS by Kai Cheng Thom

“I believe in dangerous stories”: A Review of FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS by Kai Cheng Thom There aren’t many books in my lifetime that I’ve read that I would truly consider a work of genius. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom is one of those books.

Great review of Q***r Eye: "what was meant to be an homage to the original Q***r Eye has become a poignant, almost painfully relevant show about connecting with and learning from people who are different from ourselves." https://buff.ly/2LIlnpk

Practical, tangible ways we can work towards making more inclusive communities and resisting the push of gentrification: start by knowing your neighbours and protecting public resources.
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“Self-love is not an achievement. It’s a practice. A tedious and difficult practice. It’s easy to love yourself when you’re coasting, when you’re not in emotional pain, when you’re not fu***ng up. It’s when we f**k up, when we’re distressed, when we experience scarcity, when things hurt so much its damn near impossible to breathe that it is most important to have a practice of self-love, of self-compassion, of nurture, of forgiveness.”

We All F*ck Up: The Importance of Loving Yourself Even When You Disappoint Yourself For those of us committed to self and collective liberation, it is when we f**k up that we need love the most.

Check out this amazing series by Bitch media about chronic illness: "Chronic illnesses are especially pervasive among women, and thanks to medicine’s long history of paternalism and ambient sexism...” https://buff.ly/2xXIPcT

More great summer reading suggestions... 8 Feel-Good, Comfort Reads Featuring Le****ns of Colour