Savvy storyteller • Compassionate communicator • Glass-half-full kinda guy • Comms Director for @INMagazineCA • Digital Strategy Instructor at @UofTSCS
Greater Toronto Area, ON
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Check out this @NikeToronto video featuring members of Canada’s Black #LGBTQ2 community showing their support for #Pride and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
P.s. I’m proud to say I wrote the script. 🌈💗
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These organizations offer community programs that serve 2SLGBTQI+ Canadians and change lives for the better via @INMagazineCA & @Jumol inmagazine.ca/2023/07/in-com…
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Did you know that Vaughan has the largest Black/African population in York Region? We are growing. Come celebrate with us as we raise the African diaspora flag at City Hall on August 1st @TrusteeMcDonald @IOrughu @YRMuslims @AdvocacyPeel @PoBCAdvocate @BlackCanada @YorkRegionAACC
After Pride Month comes and goes and the rainbows fade from view, the IN Directory by @INMagazineCA will be helping folks find support, safer spaces. 🌈
#INDirectory #2SLGBTQ #CommunityResources
Although Pride Month is coming to a close, that doesn't mean that the advocacy and conversation ends as well. @Jumol from @INMagazineCA joins @Candace_Global to discuss the “In-Directory”, an 2SLGBTQI+ resource.
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Kindness cannot be legislated - empathy is the only way forward.
A response to the Drag Story Time protests in #Coquitlam, #Calgary, #Peterborough and across the country.
#PTBO
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 #MariaRessa #PressFreedom
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa acquitted of tax evasion charges.
“This acquittal is for every Filipino who has ever been unjustly accused,” Ressa said.
A victory for journalism and #PressFreedom.
👉🏾Black women advocating for themselves aren’t angry or aggressive.
👉🏾Black women presenting with pain in need of pain management aren’t medication seeking.
👉🏾 Black women deserve the same standard of care as all patients.
1. Black women are 4x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.
2. A 2016 study found that many medical students believed that Black people could endure higher levels of pain.
3. Black women are 41% more likely to die if breast cancer than white women.
Tune into @TheSocialCTV at 1 pm ET - WCH’s Dr. Cynthia Maxwell and Dr. Aisha Lofters will be discussing healthcare inequities for Black women.
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Earlier this year I was offered a corporate job. It paid more than I'd ever made in my life. On my first day of training I realized my vision loss meant I couldn’t do the job.
I wrote about going blind, access needs, and quitting for @torontolife.
torontolife.com/memoir/on-my… – at Toronto, Ontario
I wrote a little something in the Sept/Oct issue of @INMagazineCA reflecting on the @City_of_Vaughan's first rainbow crosswalk. 🌈
#perspective #LGBTQ #community
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The Government of Canada is committing to help improve the lives of LGBTQ2+ Canadians with the launch of what it calls a historic action plan to support LGBTQ2+ communities. Here's what's included in the plan:
inmagazine.ca/2022/09/in-com…
As a loyal fan of @YandR_CBS, I dreamed of the day when a same-sex storyline would take centre stage on the show and be celebrated. When it finally happened, it made me feel seen. 👩❤️👩
@camryngrimes #CaitFairbanks #YR
Authentic LGBTQ2+ representation in media matters, because we exist in every story. Here's how a gay storyline on one contributor's favourite soap made them feel seen:
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"Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #lovewins
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Participate in an @egalecanada survey or focus group and help improve mental health supports for the LGBTQ2+ community in Canada. #LGBTQ #mentalhealthsupport
Navigating the health system to find specialized supports and services as an LGBTQ2+ person can be challenging during the best of times. That's why @egalecanada is "queering mental health" and improving mental health supports for the community:
inmagazine.ca/2022/06/in-com…
Attending today’s rainbow crosswalk and bench unveiling in the @City_of_Vaughan with my sister and my mom, who sometimes still struggles to come to terms with my sexuality, is a testament to just how far we’ve come on our journey together. And that makes my heart happy. 💗🌈

As a member of the the @City_of_Vaughan's Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, I feel a sense of pride knowing that our work resulted in the installation of the City's first rainbow crosswalk. 🌈
#DiversityandInclusion #LGBTQ #community #rainbowcrosswalk
Vaughan is dedicated to fostering a welcoming and inclusive city. As part of that commitment, you are invited to an event at City Hall on June 14 to unveil a new rainbow crosswalk, see the Vaughan Fire and Rescue Service Pride truck and more. Details: vaughan.ca/news/Pages/Rainbo…
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This Pride Month you can celebrate with an incredible night of entertainment in support of a good cause. Tickets are on sale now for @RainbowRailroad’s Freedom Party featuring @gottmik & @thequeenpri! (P.S. you can also enter for a chance to win tickets)
inmagazine.ca/2022/06/gottmi…
Where have all my gay friends gone, I wonder. It’s the connections, the conversations, the sense of community that I miss most. Read all about in my latest column for @INMagazineCA. #gayfriend
Making friends is easier to do when you’re the new kid on the block… Here's "Where Have All My Gay Friends Gone?" from our May/June 2022 issue:
inmagazine.ca/2022/06/where-…
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Toronto's @The519 provides ongoing support to promote the health, happiness and full participation of the 2SLGBTQ+ communities. Learn more about the organization that has been supporting futures since 1975 ❤️
inmagazine.ca/2022/06/the-51…
"There’s nothing like live performance; the exchange of energies between performer and audience, the electricity that comes from human bodies feeling, and being." - @rodneydiverlus #WelcomeWeveBeenWaiting @TOdancetheatre
We talk to Rodney Diverlus about Welcome, We've Been Waiting, his inaugural work for the Toronto Dance Company. The must-see spring production invites audiences on a journey of home and place, of fantasy and finding your tribe:
inmagazine.ca/2022/05/in-com…
