WHERE ARE YOU FROM? CoLLECTIVE
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We are ecstatic to introduce the next two workshops that are happening in December 2021:
Financial consciousness and funding our soul  - Sunday December 19th at 3pm
In this workshop, we reflect on how we learned about money from the past and what our relationship is with money. We explore our values and beliefs as well as ask ourselves some challenging or difficult questions of our ideas around money and finances.​

How to Make Mental Health Racially Accessible? - Monday December 20th at 7pm
In this workshop, we examine mental health within the context of a decolonial framework. What does mental health mean when we speak of it within the context of racial issues and racial justice? How do various racial groups approach the topic of mental health?

* These events prioritize those who identify as Trans/non-binary/queer or allies

If you require an ASL interpreter, please let us know before December 5th 2021

To register:  https://forms.gle/BGiaU3J6T5r6ZpANA
Stay tuned for more workshops coming up in 2022 !
WAYF aims to build capacity for marginalized and racialized Queer and Trans people, as well as connecting diasporic racialized queer and trans communities to create intentional dialogue that disrupts the heteronormative status quo. Our dream is to celebrate racialized Queer and Trans identities, their creative expressions, endeavours, and achievements. 

Donations
WAYF operates on a low budget. One of our dreams is to be able to offer more programming, creative projects, as well as more workshops that are consciousness raising and centre voices of racialized queer and trans people’s expressions, achievements and creative work. If you are able to offer a donation, we deeply appreciate the gift towards supporting us in sustaining the work.
You can make and e-transfer to: hello.wayf@gmail.com or contact Rain for other methods of donations at: acidrain317@gmail.com

We are currently accepting responses to our community survey. We want to know what issues and topics you would like the WAYF Collective address.
Let us know by responding filling out our survey here. 

Have more to say than can fit in the survey? Send us an email at hello.wayf@gmail.com or connect with us on social media.
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SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR WAYF
Can you support us as a volunteer?
We'd love to hear from you at hello.wayf@gmail.com

Other Questions? Email the WAYF team at hello.wayf@gmail.com!
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Follow us on:
Instagram - @wayf_zinefair
Twitter - @WAYFCollective

​Special thanks to Groundswell Community Justice Fund for their support on our  series on Decolonize Gender.
The WAYF Team come together from diverse and interdisciplinary fields allowing our skills to complement each other, while maintaining a shared vision to programming for racialized and marginalized 2SLGBTQI+ people out of a shared experience of intersections of racism, transphobia, and homophobia. We have all grown up watching our community’s concerns ignored, seeing ourselves represented in negative ways (if at all). WAYF is about having the things we wish had existed when we were growing up. We want to educate and empower artists of colour, in particular racialized Queer and Trans artists, about our identities and history. We want to build resiliency and increase capacity for artistic expressions,  activism and social justice. We want to carve out a safer and sustainable community space that legitimizes and celebrates our artistic achievements in the face of constant erasure and cultural appropriation. We want to create a platform to self-represent and self-validate.
With the increase violent acts against Asians fueled by Anti-Asian sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic, we recognize the urgency in fostering empowerment, develop resilience strategies, and mobilize change to combat the increased racism against Asians amplified by the pandemic.

past events

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List of vendors include:
1. Jade Zhang
2. Lina Wu
3. Amber Timm Illustration
4. localkristine
5. project 40 collective
6. @jasminedrawing
7. Maivy
8. Nimra Bandukwala
9. Amy Wong
10. Arezu Salamzadeh
11. Cup Doodle Project
12. Loretta Miauw
13. Living Not Existing
14. GRRRL Spells
15. Manahil Bandukwala
16. Audrey Alexis Pagulayan
17. Teddy Schaub
18. Pocky Love Songs
19. Be Awesome Shoppe
20. 1% Talent
21. Pauline Nguyen
22. Dissonant Harmony
23. Banana Peel Radio
24. Vale
25. Studio HAP
26. Cat Lamora
27. Angela Chung
28. Xiaoxiao Li
29. Sad Art Store
30. The Smallest, Saddest Zines in the World
31. Aviry Lux
32. Rui Kang
33. Aimee
34. Brian Jiang
35. Tina Tran
36. Mimi Xuan
37. Brbianca illustration
38. WAYF collective
The Where Are You From? ​Collective launched in Toronto in July 2016.
We recognize the value in fostering relationships, building solidarity, being inclusive, having difficult conversations, and continuous reflections on ways to resolve conflict, addressing tension, internalized discrimination, and actively listening to the variety of different narratives of oppression. 
To read more about us, click here: About Us
PAST WORKSHOPS