Across four campuses, LGBTQ+ students and staff came together through a participatory art process designed to build something real: a sense of affinity, shared identity, and the felt experience of belonging in a group that sees you.

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The project supported the creation of LGBTQ+-specific affinity groups within campus communities — using art-making as the process through which those relationships were formed, not just celebrated. What emerged was a collective visual record of queer joy: the specific, irreplaceable kind that comes from being seen.

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Visit Qritical Hub for poster downaload.

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Organizing team: Celeste Pang (Mount Royal University), Christopher Avelar (Norquest College), Corinne L. Mason (Mount Royal University), Keith Friedlander (Olds College), Remi Baker (MacEwan University).

Social Artist Lead & Facilitator:  Melanie Schambach

Funders: Egale Canada, Women and Gender Equality Canada.

Partners: Mount Royal University, MacEwan University, Norquest College, and Olds College.