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The Toronto Dyke March organizes the Dyke March and all affiliated events leading up to and during Toronto Pride. The committee is politically-engaged and community-oriented. We strive to operate within a feminist, queer, and anti-oppressive framework that is both collaborative and celebratory. We work toward creating spaces that allow the experiences, pleasures and identities of ALL queer women and dyke-identified folks to not only exist but also thrive.
CONTACT US!
Email: dykemarch@pridetoronto.com
Facebook: DykeMarch Toronto
Twitter: @dykemarchto
Blog: dykemarchtoronto.wordpress.com
Instagram: DykeMarchTO
Connect with us online with the hashtag: #wemarch or #dmto
Dyke March 2015 Rules of Engagement
Rules of Engagement:
This is a dyke-centred space. Prioritize and centre the voices that are most marginalized in our community.
This meeting, and the Dyke March, are trans-inclusive and trans-positive - transphobic language or sentiments will not be tolerated
be mindful of what you bring to the space
Maintain respectful dialogue.
Respect other participants' pronouns and identities
Speak one at time (this is important to do for the purposes of ASL interpretation) – if you interrupt you will be asked to wait your turn
Please be patient and respectful with the audience facilitator
Please start from the assumption that the facilitators and community members are here in good faith
Raise your hand when you want to speak
Respect people's privacy, do not out participants
Questions are welcome, and please ask for further clarification if needed.
Address problematic things as they come up
Dyke March 2015 Statement on Transmisogyny and Inclusion
Toronto’s Dyke March was founded in 1996 with the mission to create a space for women to be queer, visible, and political within Pride Toronto. This space was originally centred around cisgender women, and discussions about the inclusion of trans men of dyke experience and trans women led to the implementation of a trans-inclusive policy in 1999. The intention of the organizers was to create a safer space for all people who relate to dyke experience and identity, an important goal which is shared by the current Dyke March organizers.
However, good intentions and an ostensibly inclusive policy are not sufficient to combat transmisogyny and meaningfully centre the experiences of the most marginalized people in our community. Dyke March organizers and participants have excluded, erased, invalidated, and tokenized trans women and their experiences, particularly trans women of colour, through words and actions. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the Dyke March has acted, and continues to act, as an oppressor to women it ought to centre and value.
Real change will require organizational shifts that go far beyond lip service. The current organizers of the Dyke March recognize that our outreach has been insufficient and that inviting trans women into spaces that may not be safe for them is not an effective way to create that change.
Moving forward, we commit to doing our best to engaging parts of our communities that have been excluded and doing the difficult work to combat transmisogyny and racism that pervades both society and queer activism, including the Dyke March.
2014 MISSION STATEMENT
The 2014 Toronto Dyke March works to created dyke-centred spaces because we need and demand more visibility within the Pride Toronto Festival.
GOALS
Our goal is to organize a political and celebratory march, created by and for dykes across the spectrum. We need to create our own space to be political and visible. Dyke visibility is important because we are not fully represented in the Pride Movement or in mainstream society. The Dyke March celebrates our diversity and demonstrates the power of our communities. We hope the Dyke March leaves you with energy to take action, a sense of community, and appreciation for your own unique dyke glory.
VALUES
The Dyke March values collective organizing to give dykes who are historically oppressed a platform. These include, but are not limited to trans folks, Indigenous folks, folks of colour and folks with disabilities. We see this as necessary to create social change
2013 MISSION STATEMENT
The 2013 Toronto Dyke March works to celebrate the diversity, visibility, and strengths of our dyke communities. Our organizing framework is a radical, collaborative, community-driven, queer politics that emphasizes the power of our desires, stories, and collective knowledge. We work to organize events, including the Dyke March, that build transformative and empowering communities for all self-identified dykes, including lesbian, bi, and queer women as well as Two Spirit, trans, and gender-variant dykes from across the spectrum and from various backgrounds. We aim to organize a March that honours the history of Dyke Marches as political demonstrations, but also moves us forward through dialogue that truly respects our differences and the complexity of our identities and experiences. Overall, we will be creative and disruptive, making politicized fun and glittery ruckus; we will be fierce; we will be SUPERQUEER!
OBJECTIVES
Our goals for this year are:
1) To organize a Dyke March and Rally that is celebratory, political, and inclusive
2) To build relationships with diverse dyke communities, especially ones that are multiply marginalized, sometimes even by our own organizing
3) To create strategies and tools that help community members support and be accountable to each other instead of relying on institutional “support” and intervention
4) To maintain our own critical dyke voices within Pride Toronto
Check out our blog to see how we strive to meet these goals at www.dykemarchtoronto.wordpress.com
DYKE VISIBILITY & YOU: CREATING DYKE SPACES
We understand that lots of people are invested in dyke spaces and we aim to create a March that welcomes anyone who feels an affinity with its space. You decide where you belong: in the March or on the sidewalks. We ask for your help to maintain the March as a political demonstration that represents the diversity of dykes.
The March is trans, genderqueer, Two Spirit and intersex positive, celebrating dykes across the spectrum. Help us create a space where we are all accountable for our behaviour and uphold responsibility for the well-being of each other.
2012 Mission Statement
The 2012 Dyke March is committed to celebrating the diversity of dykes and to demonstrating our beliefs, desires, and public presence. We strive towards claiming space for queer women and dyke-identified people through actively engaging our unique communities, finding strength in our differences and belonging in our similarities. Our politics are queer and anti-normative; feminist and trans-positive; and anti-oppressive. We embrace the history of the Dyke March as a radical, political demonstration of critical mass and recognize the March’s contemporary significance in a climate of political conservatism, homophobia, and sexism. We aim to be accountable to our dyke communities by upholding values of transparency, respect, and collaboration. We aim to engage allies through sharing knowledge and by fostering their active support. We aim to respond to critiques of Pride celebrations by organizing the March and its affiliated projects through a grassroots ethic and by maintaining our voices and visibility at Pride Toronto. We are here to be out and proud, to take a stand and revel in queer space, to disrupt, to defy, and to make a riot of a good time.
History of the Dyke March
The first lesbian pride march took place in Vancouver in 1981 (way to go, Canada!) in recognition of a lack of lesbian visibility. The first official Dyke March took place in 1993 in Washington. This march came out of the overtly political queer (rather than gay and lesbian) activism of the early 90s and was a nation-wide march organized by the Lesbian Avengers, a queer direct-action group focused on issues vital to lesbian survival and queer visibility. 20,000 queer women took to the streets, and news of the march’s success spread faster than a Justin Bieber sex scandal to other North American cities. Now, dyke marches are annual events that are part of Pride celebrations around the world. Last year, 50,000 people attended the San Francisco Dyke March rally and march, the world's largest dyke march ever. Well, so far. Come on, Toronto! Let’s show ‘em what we’ve got!
CONTACT US!
Email: dykemarch@pridetoronto.com
Facebook: DykeMarch Toronto
Twitter: @dykemarchto
Blog: dykemarchtoronto.wordpress.com
Instagram: DykeMarchTO
Connect with us online with the hashtag: #wemarch or #dmto
Dyke March 2015 Rules of Engagement
Rules of Engagement:
This is a dyke-centred space. Prioritize and centre the voices that are most marginalized in our community.
This meeting, and the Dyke March, are trans-inclusive and trans-positive - transphobic language or sentiments will not be tolerated
be mindful of what you bring to the space
Maintain respectful dialogue.
Respect other participants' pronouns and identities
Speak one at time (this is important to do for the purposes of ASL interpretation) – if you interrupt you will be asked to wait your turn
Please be patient and respectful with the audience facilitator
Please start from the assumption that the facilitators and community members are here in good faith
Raise your hand when you want to speak
Respect people's privacy, do not out participants
Questions are welcome, and please ask for further clarification if needed.
Address problematic things as they come up
Dyke March 2015 Statement on Transmisogyny and Inclusion
Toronto’s Dyke March was founded in 1996 with the mission to create a space for women to be queer, visible, and political within Pride Toronto. This space was originally centred around cisgender women, and discussions about the inclusion of trans men of dyke experience and trans women led to the implementation of a trans-inclusive policy in 1999. The intention of the organizers was to create a safer space for all people who relate to dyke experience and identity, an important goal which is shared by the current Dyke March organizers.
However, good intentions and an ostensibly inclusive policy are not sufficient to combat transmisogyny and meaningfully centre the experiences of the most marginalized people in our community. Dyke March organizers and participants have excluded, erased, invalidated, and tokenized trans women and their experiences, particularly trans women of colour, through words and actions. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the Dyke March has acted, and continues to act, as an oppressor to women it ought to centre and value.
Real change will require organizational shifts that go far beyond lip service. The current organizers of the Dyke March recognize that our outreach has been insufficient and that inviting trans women into spaces that may not be safe for them is not an effective way to create that change.
Moving forward, we commit to doing our best to engaging parts of our communities that have been excluded and doing the difficult work to combat transmisogyny and racism that pervades both society and queer activism, including the Dyke March.
2014 MISSION STATEMENT
The 2014 Toronto Dyke March works to created dyke-centred spaces because we need and demand more visibility within the Pride Toronto Festival.
GOALS
Our goal is to organize a political and celebratory march, created by and for dykes across the spectrum. We need to create our own space to be political and visible. Dyke visibility is important because we are not fully represented in the Pride Movement or in mainstream society. The Dyke March celebrates our diversity and demonstrates the power of our communities. We hope the Dyke March leaves you with energy to take action, a sense of community, and appreciation for your own unique dyke glory.
VALUES
The Dyke March values collective organizing to give dykes who are historically oppressed a platform. These include, but are not limited to trans folks, Indigenous folks, folks of colour and folks with disabilities. We see this as necessary to create social change
2013 MISSION STATEMENT
The 2013 Toronto Dyke March works to celebrate the diversity, visibility, and strengths of our dyke communities. Our organizing framework is a radical, collaborative, community-driven, queer politics that emphasizes the power of our desires, stories, and collective knowledge. We work to organize events, including the Dyke March, that build transformative and empowering communities for all self-identified dykes, including lesbian, bi, and queer women as well as Two Spirit, trans, and gender-variant dykes from across the spectrum and from various backgrounds. We aim to organize a March that honours the history of Dyke Marches as political demonstrations, but also moves us forward through dialogue that truly respects our differences and the complexity of our identities and experiences. Overall, we will be creative and disruptive, making politicized fun and glittery ruckus; we will be fierce; we will be SUPERQUEER!
OBJECTIVES
Our goals for this year are:
1) To organize a Dyke March and Rally that is celebratory, political, and inclusive
2) To build relationships with diverse dyke communities, especially ones that are multiply marginalized, sometimes even by our own organizing
3) To create strategies and tools that help community members support and be accountable to each other instead of relying on institutional “support” and intervention
4) To maintain our own critical dyke voices within Pride Toronto
Check out our blog to see how we strive to meet these goals at www.dykemarchtoronto.wordpress.com
DYKE VISIBILITY & YOU: CREATING DYKE SPACES
We understand that lots of people are invested in dyke spaces and we aim to create a March that welcomes anyone who feels an affinity with its space. You decide where you belong: in the March or on the sidewalks. We ask for your help to maintain the March as a political demonstration that represents the diversity of dykes.
The March is trans, genderqueer, Two Spirit and intersex positive, celebrating dykes across the spectrum. Help us create a space where we are all accountable for our behaviour and uphold responsibility for the well-being of each other.
2012 Mission Statement
The 2012 Dyke March is committed to celebrating the diversity of dykes and to demonstrating our beliefs, desires, and public presence. We strive towards claiming space for queer women and dyke-identified people through actively engaging our unique communities, finding strength in our differences and belonging in our similarities. Our politics are queer and anti-normative; feminist and trans-positive; and anti-oppressive. We embrace the history of the Dyke March as a radical, political demonstration of critical mass and recognize the March’s contemporary significance in a climate of political conservatism, homophobia, and sexism. We aim to be accountable to our dyke communities by upholding values of transparency, respect, and collaboration. We aim to engage allies through sharing knowledge and by fostering their active support. We aim to respond to critiques of Pride celebrations by organizing the March and its affiliated projects through a grassroots ethic and by maintaining our voices and visibility at Pride Toronto. We are here to be out and proud, to take a stand and revel in queer space, to disrupt, to defy, and to make a riot of a good time.
History of the Dyke March
The first lesbian pride march took place in Vancouver in 1981 (way to go, Canada!) in recognition of a lack of lesbian visibility. The first official Dyke March took place in 1993 in Washington. This march came out of the overtly political queer (rather than gay and lesbian) activism of the early 90s and was a nation-wide march organized by the Lesbian Avengers, a queer direct-action group focused on issues vital to lesbian survival and queer visibility. 20,000 queer women took to the streets, and news of the march’s success spread faster than a Justin Bieber sex scandal to other North American cities. Now, dyke marches are annual events that are part of Pride celebrations around the world. Last year, 50,000 people attended the San Francisco Dyke March rally and march, the world's largest dyke march ever. Well, so far. Come on, Toronto! Let’s show ‘em what we’ve got!
