Monthly Archives: February 2015

This February, Queer Asian Youth (QAY), ACAS' Youth Program, is celebrating its 15the anniversary of providing a supportive and healthy safe space for East and Southeast Asian youth. As a lead-up to this significant event and to continue with our #ACASturns20 celebration, we want to share with you a feature by Julia Lo, Recipient of the ACAS CelebrAsian Community Activist Award in 2012 on how ACAS and Queer Asian Youth have helped her become a youth leader in Toronto and the Asian Community:   "We Still Here?": QAY's 15th Anniversary + Coming Out Resource Launch is taking place on Feb 25, 2015 at Buddies at Bad Times Theatre from 6pm to 9pm.  Visit https://www.facebook.com/acas.qay or contact Meza at youth@acas.org for more information.

We at ACAS hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season as well as a very happy new year! It’s hard to believe the month of January has already passed. We at ACAS would like to keep you updated on the many exciting activities we had as well as the work we have been doing to promote healthy sexuality and building a stronger community in the month of January 2015!   ACAS’ Open Letter On the Updated Ontario Sex Education and Health Curriculum In response to the recent spike in debates and news coverage on the updated sex education and health curriculum in Ontario schools to be introduced in September 2015, Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) would like to share an open letter to the community and express our opinions and views about the curriculum. You can access also the open letter here: ACAS Open Letter on the Updated Sex Education and Health Curriculum in Ontario Schools Please feel free to share this letter with your networks.   Women’s Program and Women's Support Program Joint Program Self-Defence Social Event As the new Ontario Sex Education Curriculum will incorporate the topic of the issues of Safety and Consent, Online Safety and the Risks of Sexting, it is very apt and timely that our Women’s Program and the Women's Support Program held a very successful and well-attended joint-program  Self-Defence Social Event on January 8, 2015, to jumpstart the new year. We would like to especially thank our wonderful instructor, MaryCarl, a first-generation Pinay-Canadian womyn's self defence instructor for a fun and informative self-defence workshop that is taught through an anti-oppression, feminist, anti-racist and queer-positive framework.   Men’s Program Safety and Consent Workshop  Safety & Consent Workshop While Safety and Consent is an issue that is relevant to all, it is rarely a topic that is talked [...]