For Us BY Us: Resource Toolkit

Why These Colours?

Interactive map of QTBIPoC Relevant Spaces on Campus

This map highlights spaces to build community and gain support for marginalized students on campus. Click the button to check it out!

Interactive Map of QTBIPoC Relevant Spaces in Downtown Kingston

This map highlights spaces to build community and gain support for marginalized students in the Downton Kingston Area. Click the button to check it out!

Interactive Map of QTBIPoC Relevant Spaces in Outer Kingston

This map highlights spaces to build community and gain support for marginalized students in the Outer Kingston Area. Click the button to check it out look!

QTBIPoC Grocery Tip List

We know the challenge of moving to Kingston and trying to find groceries and ingredients tailored towards you. We asked BIPoC students who have had to navigate this challenge where they shop. Click this tile to see their tips and advice on where to go for various items that feel like home.
  1. For Us By Us: Resource Library
  2. For Us By Us: Resources to Support QTBIPoC Student Success

For Us By Us: Resources to Support QTBIPoC Student Success

These resources empower, build, and support students in the Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour communities on campus by centralizing and highlighting information, resources, and spaces pertinent to QTBIPOC students' lives. 

Physical and Mental Wellness

Wellness resources and services that are culturally sensitive, non-eurocentric, and provisioned through a trauma informed lens. 

Identity Building

 Intersectional resources to enrich students' understanding of their lived experiences.

Solidarity Building Events

Non-Eurocentric, cultural activities and events open to all identity based groups to promote intersectional solidarity.

Solidarity Building

Resources to build solidarity between communities, honor allyship through events, traditions, and clubs. 

Identity Building Events

Non-Eurocentric cultural activities and traditions. Participation is exclusive to members of the identity-based group hosting the event.

Academic Resources

Resources to support the intersectional academic needs of marginalized students. Support ranges from culturally sensitive academic advising to intersectional tutelage.   

Professional Development

Resources to help marginalized students prepare for and navigate their career paths and the systemic barriers associated with it. 

Scholarships, Bursaries, Awards, and Aid

Financial aid relevant to marginalized students on campus.

A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

My name is Ayden Adeyanju-Jackson, and I am a third year Queen’s student majoring in Global Development studies, and minoring in Politics. Race and class were two aspects of my intersectionality that significantly shaped my experiences growing up. Inherently, as socioeconomically disadvantaged, racialized individual, I was excluded directly by financial constraints and conscious racial ignorance, but also indirectly by unconscious biases relating to racial and class-based stereotypes. Indeed, these experiences were more pronounced when I arrived at Queen’s in the Fall of 2019, where a racially homogenous, Eurocentric, and socio-economically affluent community showed me – directly and indirectly – that I do not unquestionably belong. Rather than being able to seamlessly integrate into the broad Queen’s community, some of my experiences in first year showed me that there are greater barriers and nuance to finding meaningful community at Queen’s for marginalized individuals. This realization was tough for me to come to terms with. Although I had many positive experiences at Queen’s, the systemic and regular nature of my negative racial and class experiences triggered a mentality shift, where I came to perceive Queen’s as a means to an end, rather than a place to safely learn, grow, and form relationships. Certainly, this was an unhealthy – yet natural – shift to have, but, this change is what has made my work this past summer at the Yellow House so rewarding. For the past 4 months, I have been creating an EDII Resource Toolkit with the purpose of empowering, building, celebrating, and supporting students in the Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour communities on campus by making resources pertinent to them centralized and easily accessible. For ease of accessibility, the toolkit is organized by need, and contains categories relating to support in community building, wellness, finances, academics, and careers. Ideally, by making these resources visible, accessible, and relevant, marginalized students can avoid the same frustration and uncertainty that I did when trying to find community and support at Queen’s. In consultation with diverse stakeholders in the Queen’s community, this toolkit was made by YOU and for YOU, so you can thrive, rather than survive.

Yours Truly,

Ayden Adeyanju-Jackson