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Feeling Myself Project

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

@feelingmyselfproject facilitated by Dominique Friday designed a workshop aimed towards building young people’s sense of identity, confidence and self-worth using creative arts. The participants would ultimately work together to produce a concert titled Soul Spectrum that expresses their journey and outcomes gained through the experience.…

Black Queer World Building

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

Artivist @jacobvjoyce left an open invitation to members of the Black queer diaspora to predict a new version of the future, one that is in alignment to their queer joy, freedom, rest and healing. The project titled Black Queer World Building aims to include the Caribbean in outlining and celebrating the interconnected struggle against colonial legacies of homophobia in Africa and its diaspora. Through the power of speculative fictions and afro-futurist writers like Octavia Butler who forecasts her own future…

BHC Sponsors 3rd Safer Classrooms Workshop

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

The third cycle of our Teacher Training Workshop sponsored by the British High Commission, Port of Spain (@ukincaribbean) aims to foster safer classrooms. The main intent is to build capacity for teachers on mitigating enabling conditions for bullying and classroom-based indiscipline. SLF sought to address bullying and violence within the framework of sexual diversity, as a result from the findings discovered through the Ministry-approved climate survey report of Secondary Schools in 2016-2017, that centered on bullying, attitudes toward LGBT persons,…

Norman, Is That You? performed by Raymond Choo Kong

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Brandon Kalyan

The monologue for Norman, Is That You? performed by Raymond Choo Kong and presented by the Pride Arts Festival of Trinidad and Tobago…

On February 24th, 2012, a group of motivated young people came together to tackle bullying and suicide prevention for marginalised youth, after 16-year-old George Kazanjian tragically took his own life. George’s passing ignited a flame under these youths, a flame that burns even brighter today. We are incredibly honoured and proud to be here, six years later. From the introduction of our Safe Space sessions at the University of the West Indies in 2013, the development of parenting resources for…

K(no)W HIV

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Earl Edmund

On #WorldAIDSDay we stand in solidarity with persons who are living with HIV/AIDS in our nation, and around the world. The HIV/AIDS epidemic hit the Caribbean in the late ‘70s, and according to a UNAIDS/WHO report, the Caribbean was registered as the second-most affected region in the world by 2001, with an estimated 420,000 people – more than two percent of the adult population – living with HIV. While ambitious efforts have been launched to achieve the end of AIDS…

Proud to “B” in the LGBT

Posted on September 23, 2017 by Earl Edmund

Today, we celebrate Bisexual Visibility Day. First observed in 1999, September 23rd has since been marked around the world as a day of celebration for bisexual visibility and pride. It was the brainchild of Wendy Curry, Michael Page, and Gigi Raven Wilbur, three United States bisexual rights activists. People individually and collectively celebrate bisexual pride and awareness in many ways, including parties, flag-flying, workshops, film screenings and social cyber events. Bisexual men and women still continue to face stigmatization, prejudice…

Show Your Colours – Celebrating IDAHOBIT

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Jeremy - SLF

The freedom to be yourself is a very special right that everyone – indeed, everyone – is entitled to. Today, we celebrate that freedom to be yourself, regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, faith, beliefs and gender or sexual identity. Today, we give everyone a real chance to flourish. Today, we embrace difference and say NO to any and all forms of discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) community. Today, we celebrate the International Day Against…

Finding an Equal Place – Model United Nations 2017

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Jeremy - SLF

One of the flagship projects of the Rotary Club of Central Port of Spain (RCCPOS) is the annual hosting of the Model United Nations (MUN). This year, the 20th installment of the MUN was held on March 18-19 2017 at the Hilton Trinidad Hotel and was attended by 120 students from Trinidad, Tobago, Suriname, St Lucia, Guyana and Barbados. The mission of the MUN is to foster a constructive forum for young people to have open dialogue on complex global…

5 Years of Support, Education and Advocacy Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Silver Lining Foundation (SLF). It’s hard for any of us to imagine that five years later we would be sitting here on this milestone that is our fifth year anniversary. But deeply motivated by a burning desire to seek social justice and impact change in the lives of kids who continue to be bullied by their peers on the sole basis off their sexuality, and…

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Feeling Myself Project

Black Queer World Building

BHC Sponsors 3rd Safer Classrooms Workshop

Norman, Is That You? performed by Raymond Choo Kong

Happy 6th Anniversary, Silver Linings!

K(no)W HIV

Proud to “B” in the LGBT

Show Your Colours – Celebrating IDAHOBIT

Finding an Equal Place – Model United Nations 2017

Celebrating The Silver Lining Foundation’s 5th Anniversary

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