SASSY – Raising awareness, empowering, supporting and helping each other: SexEd by and for 2SLGBTQIA+ and/or neurodivergent people
Starting in autumn 2023 and running until 2025, Projet SASSY aims to raise awareness of the issues among the wider population, and equip professionals who work with women and people from sexually and gender-diverse and/or neurodivergent backgrounds. In partnership with the Secrétariat de la Condition Féminine, we also aim to equip and empower women and people from sexual and gender diversity and/or neurodiverse backgrounds.
Objectives
- Make access to health and wellness services safer and more understandable for the community.
- Develop tools by and for women and people from sexual and gender diversity and/or neurodivergent backgrounds to empower them.
- Educate institutions and the Quebec community about gender and neurodiversity representations in advertising and the media, from an intersectional perspective.
- Raise awareness of the specific realities and needs of women and queer/trans people living at the intersection of different systems of oppression.
1
Identifying needs and questions
- Public surveys of women and 2SLGBTQIA+ and/or neurodiverse people
- Census of the most frequently asked questions at PTQ
- Identification of the most frequently asked questions about sexuality education in high school
- Identification of safer local resources related to DSPG and/or neurodiversity
- Set up an online consultation committee with young people from several regions of Quebec. This focus group will contribute to the project before and during the creation of the new tools.
2
Outreach
- Poster design
- Participation in Fierté Trans and National Theatre School booths
- Collaboration with Neuro-Sexo in the creation of accessible conferences Conferences in Gaspé in collaboration with Vision Gaspé
3
Collection of expertise
- Survey people who work with women and people who are
2SLGBTQIA+ and/or neurodiverse people - Bring together project collaborators with expertise in working with these communities and a professional interest in education, health and well-being services
- Identify existing information, services and tools in relation to the needs identified in the previous steps
4
Creation and finalization of tools
- Implementation of a series of comic strips and explanatory sheets to
disseminate educational information in an easy-to-use, visually captivating format - Creation of training courses based on needs currently lacking in the general knowledge spheres targeted by the community and
professionals
5
Training and tool presentation tour
- A selective provincial tour to promote tool dissemination and offer training. This tour will be carried out in conjunction with some of our
partner organizations, and will enable us to forge links with new organizations in different regions