Dr. Wesley Crichlow (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1998) is a full professor whose work intersectionally connects Critical Race Theories, Queer Theories, Theories of Anti-Black Racism and Decoloniality as the signature praxis and framing of his research teaching and service. His work provides incremental measures to alleviate anti-Black racism, heterocisnormativity, homophobia, transmisogyny, structural, and systemic inequalities. His first published SSHRC funded book: Buller Men & Batty Bwoys: Hidden Men In Toronto & Halifax Black Communities (2004), focused on interviews with Black Gay Men in Toronto’s Caribbean diasporic community and Halifax Black Community. This monograph was the first Black, scholarly, queer text to offer readers a critical insight into the complex lives of Black, Gay and Bisexual men in Canada. It also offered a critical analysis of racialized heterosexism within Black diasporic communities. This work was also an attempt to restore indigenous sexual terms as a response to politicized language of gay, lesbian, and queer politics.

Our project community partners are: The Caribbean African Canadian Social Services (CAFCAN); 519 Church Street Community Center; Black Coalition for Aids Prevention (Black Cap); City of Toronto-Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit; The 2SLGBTQI+ Secretariat; Pride Toronto; Public Health Agency of Canada; The LGBT Purge Fund; Quadrangle Community Centre; South Riverdale Community Center; The Canadian Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity; The Enchante Network;  and The Ontario HIV Treatment Network.

This study has been reviewed by the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (OTU) Research Ethics Board
[File #17107] on [Dec 21, 2022].

If you have any questions, please contact the Research Ethics Office @ 905- 721-8668 ext. 3693 or at researchethics@uoit.ca.
If you experience any discomfort related to the study, please contact the PI researcher Wesley Crichlow @ 905-721-8668, ext. 2651 or wesley.crichlow@ontariotechu.ca.

This project is supported by SSHRC but not a SSHRC product.

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