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Project type

Activism, advocacy, community-building

Date

2016-now

Location

Montreal

Link of Interest

For over a decade, I’ve been deeply engaged in queer and trans community organizing—working across grassroots movements, institutional advocacy, and public policy to advance justice, dignity, and liberation.

Co-founding TRAPS, the first transfeminist collective of its kind in Québec, carving out space for intersectional, youth-led trans women organizing grounded in lived experience. I later served as a national spokesperson for the Nous ne serons pas sages campaign, which mobilized thousands around issues of gender justice and bodily autonomy.

Throughout the years, I’ve collaborated closely with organizations like the Coalition des groupes jeunesse LGBTQ, the Conseil Québécois LGBT, and Espace LGBTQ+, where I now serve as President. My work has often bridged the grassroots and the institutional—building long-standing relationships with community organizers, frontline workers, elected officials, and nonprofit partners.

Whether engaging in public consultations, advising on inclusive policy, or supporting emerging collectives like Brûlance, MTF, and others, my approach remains grounded in care, accountability, and collective empowerment. This work is not separate from my creative or philanthropic practice—it informs every gesture, from how I design space to how I imagine futures.

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I am located on lands that have been inhabited and cared for by Indigenous peoples for millennia. Tio’tia:ke/Montreal is part of an unceded territory traditionally stewarded by the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door.

While I want to honor their continued presence, as well as that of a vibrant and diverse urban Indigenous community, I also want to recognize that our existence is currently within ongoing systems of colonialism and racism from which I continue to benefit.

As a community organiser, fundraiser, artist, and white settler-descent person, I am committed to concrete actions, engaging with my privileges to move towards a world that centers Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and more broadly Indigenous communities.

 

© 2025 by Désirée Nore. 

 

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