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Storyteller 🎙️ 🖊️ | Columnist: Queer & Now @nowtoronto 🏳️‍🌈 | Women&Gender Studies @carleton.fist | Lesbian Feminist🤸🏼| 🇻🇨x🇩🇪

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Happy birthday twin👯 I couldn’t be more proud of you, love you forever 🩵 by @dcbanfield

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On behalf of Now Toronto I recently had the pleasure of going on a tour to learn more about the history of a Canadian Queer landmark: The 519 — a space that has shaped 2SLGBTQIA+ activism, organizing, and community in Toronto for 50 years 🩷

As a girl who loves The Village and all of the stories it holds, it’s always a treat to learn more about our history and the work that has gone into the freedoms we enjoy today✨ Read more at nowtoronto.com - link in my story!

#toronto #queertoronto #lgbtq taken in Toronto, Ontario by @dcbanfield

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11 days ago

Someone’s hot aunt🩶

📸 @gymguyty taken in Toronto, Ontario by @dcbanfield

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17 days ago

Work 🤝Party 🤝Pride🏳️‍🌈

After sleeping for the last week, I’m reflecting on an incredible Pride weekend, and everything we accomplished this year was a dream come true🩷 In addition to marching in the parade with so many people I love, this year saw ya girl organizing and running activations at my two favourite parties, @greenspaceto & @blocko_to, and having the opportunity to talk to hundreds of people about Queer & Now was surreal 🤯 🏳️‍🌈

Big love to the entire @nowtoronto team, as well as my family, friends who showed up to march and support, and the entire community who took part in the best weekend of the year ❤️✨#pride #toronto #lgbtq taken in Toronto, Ontario by @dcbanfield

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Ahead of last weekend’s festival, I sat down with Kojo Modeste, Pride Toronto’s executive director, for a discussion about why this event is still so important 45 years after Pride was first founded in our city 🏳️‍🌈✨

#Toronto #Pride #LGBTQ taken in Toronto, Ontario by @dcbanfield

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25 days ago

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Hayley Kiyoko about her new movie, Girls Like Girls, and what it’s like growing up and not seeing yourself reflected in the stories that you consume. Read more in the latest edition of Queer & Now — link in my story✨🌈 #pride #lesbian #queer #hayleykiyoko taken in Toronto, Ontario by @dcbanfield

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Home for the summer ✨🩷 taken in Downtown Toronto by @dcbanfield

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2 months ago

We’re kicking off Pride Month with a bang at Queer & Now this June 🏳️‍🌈✨💄👂 The incredibly talented @thedahliadoll joined us in studio to transform me into a drag queen, share the best makeup tips, and give us the scoop on the upcoming @fierceandfabulousexpo ✨

Read more at nowtoronto.com - link in my bio🏳️‍🌈 taken in Toronto, Ontario by @dcbanfield

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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with #HeatedRivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney about Queer Joy and if lesbians will get their moment in season two 🩷✨🏳️‍🌈 taken in Toronto, Ontario by @dcbanfield

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3 months ago

But lemme ask you a question 🎤

📸 @esteban.films taken in Downtown Toronto by @dcbanfield

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Screaming happy third birthday to the project that changed my entire life in the best way! Three whole years of Queer & Now = 85 editions spanning 156 weeks — covering everything from protests to plays, concerts to weddings, community leaders, and community crisises. I’m forever grateful to the team @NowToronto & @gonezmedia for believing in this project, and to every artist, expert, activist, community member and ally who lent their time and expertise or shared their story with me. It’s all been part of making my dream of creating a platform for our community and by our community possible. So cheers to ya’ll and to many more editions of Q&N🎉🥳🥂🏳️‍🌈

#toronto #pride #queermedia #canadianmedia taken in Toronto, Ontario by @dcbanfield

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week to all my babes holding down the L in 2SLGBTQ+!

When @staceyannchin said “The business of Dykes and Dykery… is often messy, with social relations as they are,” I felt that in my bones.

Growing up in a less than accepting environment (😅), it took a long time to feel comfortable claiming the word as my own. But now every time I talk about my identity as a Lesbian, it feels like reclaiming all of the years that I spent worried about what openly identifying this way would mean for my future.

Three years into writing a Queer culture column for @nowtoronto, a newspaper that I love, a year into a degree @carleton.fist researching Queer women’s leadership in the Caribbean, and privileged to be loved and supported by my family and community, I know that living my truth has changed my whole life for the better.

But at this point in my life, I also acknowledge that this isn’t everyone’s experience of coming out. I want to iterate that if people being visible about their identities as #Queer makes you uncomfortable, you are a part of the problem, and why we keep talking about it. Days and weeks of visibility are important for confronting this. Representation is crucial to solving this.

Happy #LesbianVisibilityWeek to all you #Lesbians, out and proud or otherwise, I hope you feel seen in the best way 366🩷🧡 by @dcbanfield

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