Yes. Once we're done with negotiations, we're hitting the ground running.
One of the first things we're doing is creating a workshop for conversion therapy victims. This workshop will help them understand their rights from a legal standpoint and how to care for themselves from a mental health standpoint. To do that, we're going to be collaborating with professionals in that field.
Another thing we're trying to do is ensure we keep the history of the Black 2SLGBTQ community alive by implementing an online archive of Black 2SLGBTQ historians. It's about people who are older and who experienced how the Black queer community has changed from before we had rights to now that we have rights. What was it like living in the sixties? It's things like that. We will tell our own stories so that the younger generation can see what it was like to be Canadian at that time. It's very essential, because Canada was the first country in North America to legalize same-sex marriage. We should be the pioneers of this. Sometimes it feels like we're going back as opposed to forward. It's very painful that we have to do the work to ensure that people know about this journey.
Another thing we're trying to do is work with other professionals and researchers to understand people in the community and see exactly what the discrimination looks like. What hate are you facing on the ground? That way, we can come up with different strategies on how to bridge that gap and ensure you feel safe and secure as a Black 2SLGBTQ community member.
These are just a few of the ways we're going to be kicking things off in January, all the way to 2027.