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The HISTORYTELLERS Project
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Items from The HISTORYTELLERS Project by Grade 10 students from Garth Webb Secondary School, HDSB
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Tune In: The Coming Out Show
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The HISTORYTELLERS Project
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Items from The HISTORYTELLERS Project by Grade 10 students from Garth Webb Secondary School, HDSB
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Proud Gay Fathers
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The HISTORYTELLERS Project
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An account of the resource
Items from The HISTORYTELLERS Project by Grade 10 students from Garth Webb Secondary School, HDSB
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We Will Be Seen
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The HISTORYTELLERS Project
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An account of the resource
Items from The HISTORYTELLERS Project by Grade 10 students from Garth Webb Secondary School, HDSB
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Exhibit Statement
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Audio
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Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes
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Self-portrait taken on a polaroid camera.
I’m a Chinese transmasculine person in their late 20s. Both these descriptors poke at some discomfort. For one, I’m not always pegged as Chinese, so at times I spiral wondering if I grew up around less white people and speaking the language, maybe my face would look different or maybe I could have more claim to my Chinese-ness (it’s not logical). Secondly, labels, gender, and language are so limiting and this doesn’t feel like the perfect word but it’s something that people have come to understand.
I’m sitting in the living room of the house I have lived in for the past five years. It looks bare compared to before. Up until recently, this room belonged to a dear friend. We’re still adjusting to being cities apart. And I’m still learning what it means to make a home.
Perched on the backrest of a big blue chair, leaning towards the camera, chin resting on my left palm while the other drapes over my knee.
Behind me is a painting by a friend, a patterned abstract piece that resembles a wall of fungi. I’m wearing a black fabric harness that another friend helped make. I owe so much to my loved ones.
Despite being exhausted by the ongoings of life, excitement fills me too. I hope we can become old and laugh about hard learned stories over our thousandth last cigarette.
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1 minute and 33 seconds
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Wren Tian: Audio Self Portrait
Description
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A self-portrait audio recording by Wren Tian for the exhibition "Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes"
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Wren Tian
Publisher
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The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
Date
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May 2025
Language
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English
Source
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Identity politics
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Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes
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Hello. I am Tien Neo Eamas. I’m located on Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam lands, also known as Vancouver, BC. Born and raised in Singapore, I am of mixed-class and Indonesian and Chinese heritage, the proud ethnic group Nyonya Babas of the Southeast Asias.
I am the first Asian trans man to come out in the then gay and lesbian community in Vancouver, BC, 2001, and I am a wizard, a spiritual teacher, artist, goldsmith, writer, and performer. In 2008, I created Happy Tranny Day, the first ever trans celebration in the world, and it became Gender Euphoria Day after. And soon after, calls from various organizations and organizers in New York, Toronto, Australia called to talk about this amazing possibility. And by 2015, TDOV—Trans Day of Visibility—showed up as a new celebration in North America. I have no obvious proof, but many who showed up to the OG event now know that TDOV was clearly the next generation of Happy Tranny Day. Promoting trans happiness was the only mission of Happy Tranny Day. And now, my next production, Queer Spirit Circle and Queer Spirit Fair, has the same mission: spreading queer joy.
I have experienced the hatred and oppressiveness of having a multiple intersectional reality, and my spiritual lessons do not spiritually bypass, nor are they socially ignorant or irresponsible. Marginalized folks desire a spiritual connection that is non-colonial, non-appropriative, nor, or should it be inaccessible. I ensure my work is grounded in reality, and still gives folks access to spirit.
I am a soul in an Asian human body. I am trans as the English language determines. However, trans is not who I am, nor is my body who I am. I am love, joy, and magic, and so much more. My sole purpose this lifetime is to remind us all that beyond all the constructs of gender, race, and any other divisive situations, like the ongoing woke discussions and fights, we can breathe, pause, look deeply into each other's eyes, open our hearts, and to see each other’s light. To spread our energy in connection with others, and to choose to love more deeply, speak and live more truly to our soul's expression, and to shine, to teach others that we can truly live from choice, love, and joy.
I know that the new generation of queers are here to help this planet and the humans evolve into much more love, respect for the earth, joy, and connection to all. And may we always live from our hearts.
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Audio recording
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2 minutes and 55 seconds
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Tien Neo Eamas: Audio Self Portrait
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A self-portrait audio recording by Tien Neo Eamas for the exhibition "Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes."
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Tien Neo Eamas
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The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
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May 2025
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English
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Identity politics
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trans
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Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes
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A soft, full-colour portrait of me standing quietly among the tender, reaching limbs of a willow tree. The leaves cascade around me in delicate strands, like nature’s own curtain, parting just enough for me to be witnessed.
The filtered light falls through the greenery, catching on my skin in warm, scattered patterns, as though the day itself is reaching for me. Some leaves frame my face while others blur gently into the foreground, creating the feeling of a dream.
I face the camera with a slight turn of my body, and my gaze is both soft and searching.
My curly hair, slightly tousled by wind and routine, and my gold septum ring catches the light, glimmering.
I am wearing an earth-toned shirt, layered with a dark jacket, my lips resting on the edge of a smile. At this moment, I don’t have to explain my gender, my softness, my strength, my ancestry, or my ache. Everything I carry is held by the branches and the light.
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Audio recording
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1 minute and 13 seconds
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Azka Ahmed: Audio Self Portrait
Description
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A self-portrait audio by Azka Ahmed for the exhibition "Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes."
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Azka Ahmed
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The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
Date
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May 2025
Language
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English
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sound
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Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes
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Cece looks off to her right while sitting on a grey-felt covered couch. The same high cheekbones that she used to hate because they were too angular, too proud, too masculine, are now striking and elegant on her HRT-softened face.
Long, brown hair flows over her left shoulder and spills over her small, perky bosoms. Her gaze is soft while looking back at four decades of trying to fill the role of first-born male heir to the family name.
Her red lips are gently parted as if to say, you did the best you could in a place not meant for you. We don’t have to do that anymore. We found a home in our own body.
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52 seconds
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Cece Chow: Audio Self Portrait
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A self-portrait audio recording by Cece Chow for the exhibition "Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes."
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Cece Chow
Publisher
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The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
Date
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May 2025
Language
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English
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Asian LGBTQ+ people
audio
sound
trans
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Title
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Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes
Sound
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Transcription
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[Music is playing]
Hello. My name’s Asya. What you’re listening to is one of my favourite singers from my childhood. He used to have a show as well with the kids, and it would be so fun to watch. He is very inspirational and also, he is kind of doing this psychedelic music. He’s one of the fathers of psychedelic music, and meshing it with folk music, Turkish folk.
I want to be a cloud. But not made of steam. I want to be a cloud of fluid. But not soft. I want to be a cloud flying and walking down at the same time. I want to be grounded, but I want my feet off the ground. I also want to be seen differently, but I don’t want to be seen unequally.
I want to be welcomed with my contradictions. I want to be welcomed but also celebrated, and that’s kind of why you’re here. And that’s why I’m here. I will celebrate even when I’m feeling down and the days are not really going “wow!”, even if I'm depressed and doing my crochets, even if I don’t want to associate with other people and I just want to be left alone. I want everything to be possible, but without excluding, without making anyone sad. But also I don’t want to make myself sad or compromised.
I want to sacrifice but also I don’t want to be consumed. And I feel sometimes I’m just living it, but then I don’t know what will come after.
[Music continues playing]
Welcome to my exhibition corner. Really great to see you. Thank you for listening to my voice.
Duration
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4 minutes and 15 seconds
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Asya Gunduz: Audio Self-Portrait
Description
An account of the resource
A self-portrait audio recording by Asya Gunduz for the exhibition "Of Kin and Other Impossible Homes."
Creator
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Asya Gunduz
Publisher
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The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
Date
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May 2025
Language
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English; Turkish
Source
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Asian LGBTQ+ people
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The HISTORYTELLERS Project
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An account of the resource
Items from The HISTORYTELLERS Project by Grade 10 students from Garth Webb Secondary School, HDSB
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Title
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Garth Webb Secondary School logo
Creator
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Garth Webb Secondary School
Rights
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Garth Webb Secondary School