Makeda Zook

By day: health promo & sex-ed @actioncanadashr By night: co-editor queerspawn anthology @SpawnGen Always: queerspawn, feminist, intersectionality. Views my own.

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

@hgt0 @anna_carlile @dobspoon @sima_kotecha @AngelaRayner @Ofstednews @amanda_spielman @SpawnGen @QueerSpawn @family_equality @COLAGENational If you cannot see, or reflect on, the ways that your arguments and language-use are deeply hurtful and offensive to #queerfamilies and #queerspawn then I have to leave this convo. Please do more reading and listening on the subject of #queer family-making. ✌️

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

@hgt0 @anna_carlile @dobspoon @sima_kotecha @AngelaRayner @Ofstednews @amanda_spielman @SpawnGen @QueerSpawn @family_equality @COLAGENational 1) Biology & your use of the term “natural” are two very different things.
2) Queer people do in fact “produce” children - I & all other #queerspawn are cases in point.
3)Non-biological parents are PARENTS. Period.
4) Your definitions of family are extremely limited.

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

@hgt0 @anna_carlile @dobspoon @sima_kotecha @AngelaRayner @Ofstednews @amanda_spielman @SpawnGen @QueerSpawn @family_equality @COLAGENational Using “natural” to refer to bio-parents perpetuates homophobia. I am a #queerspawn and co-editor of @SpawnGen - there is absolutely nothing “confusing” or “age inappropriate” about teaching kids that LOVE makes a family and suggesting such also perpetuates homophobia #SexEd

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

great question! #SexEdCanada

[Action Canada @actioncanadashr]

Moving on to Q4! Sexual health and reproductive rights are politicized across Canada. Which sex-ed topic(s) do you think is/are the most politicized in your province and why? #SexEdCanada

[Action Canada @actioncanadashr]

And of course, let’s not forget students who are also organizing and fighting for comprehensive sex-ed! Special S/Os to @rayneydaes @frankjhong @le_notlee #SexEdCanada

[Action Canada @actioncanadashr]

Special S/Os to @FaeJohnstone @TKPritchard @DevonHargreaves @GlenfordCanning @drRuthie @JackiYo @ArielTroster. Make sure to follow their work! #SexEdCanada

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

#SexEdCanada convo!

[Action Canada @actioncanadashr]

To participate in the #SexEdCanada conversation, please follow the instructions below

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

Starting now! #SexEdCanada

[Action Canada @actioncanadashr]

Welcome to our #SexEdCanada Twitter Chat! We’re excited to chat today with students, parents, sex-educators and advocates about the state of sex-ed in Canada.

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

#SexEdCanada

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

Excited for this! <3

[Action Canada @actioncanadashr]

We want to speak about #SexEd on a national level. Join @DevonHargreaves @le_notlee @GlenfordCanning @drRuthie in our #TwitterChat this Thursday at 2pm-3pm EST to discuss how to bring sex-ed to young people across #Canada. #SexEdCanada

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

I'll be tuning in! Will you? #SexEdCanada

[Action Canada @actioncanadashr]

Our #TwitterChat on #SexEd is starting in 30 minutes!!!!!! Follow #SexEdCanada to join the conversation!

[The Rundown @therundowntvo]

.@sadesRose and @MakZook, co-editors of the essay collection, "Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents" discuss the evolution of attitudes toward LGBTQ people in Ontario https://t.co/epcVuHnkuA #queerspawn #LGBTQ #canqueer #Pride

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

If you missed @sadesRose & I promoting @SpawnGen on Friday’s @TheAgenda - the episode will be airing again tonight! Thank you @GreggThurlbeck & @spaikin for helping us amplify #queerspawn voices! 🏳️‍🌈 https://t.co/zmg5qi00pe

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

It was such a pleasure talking with @HallieCBC on @OttawaMorning today about the recently launched @SpawnGen edited by @sadesRose & I 🏳️‍🌈 Thanks for having me on the show! https://t.co/11DXj4VHe6

[Spawning Generations @SpawnGen]

Thanks @OttawaMorning & @HallieCBC for chatting this am with co-editor @MakZook about our recently launched book Spawning Generations! 🏳️‍🌈#queerspawn #LGBTQ #canqueer #Pride2018

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

@KirstyPazekSmit @TheAgenda @SpawnGen @sadesRose It’s more than just about fitting in, for us #queerspawn it’s about proving to people who literally think that we are devil’s spawn, that we are worthy of being alive, worthy of being loved and accepted by the broader homophobic and transphobic world

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

We do indeed! 😊 #queerspawn 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideTO #prideweekend #Pride2018 https://t.co/NFesjEG8Q2

[Steve Paikin @spaikin]

they call themselves "queerspawn" --- the offspring of LGBTQ parents. @sadesRose & @MakZook join us tonight on the eve of @PrideToronto's weekend events to talk about @SpawnGen, their new book. 8/11 pm on @TheAgenda #PrideTO #PrideToronto

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

Poster-child syndrome is real for us #queerspawn ! 🏳️‍🌈 Tune in now to hear @sadesRose & I talk about why we were inspired to include more complicated stories of our communities in @SpawnGen https://t.co/5JexOOgzxi

[The Rundown @therundowntvo]

"For so long we felt like we weren't able to be messy and complicated like every other family." — growing up with LGBTQ+ parents, with @SpawnGen editors @sadesRose and @MakZook, tonight on The Agenda. At 8/11pm #canqueer #Pride

[Spawning Generations @SpawnGen]

Do you know what the Lavender Conception Conspiracy is? Find out tonight on @TheAgenda at 8pm as @MakZook and @sadesRose talk about editing #spawninggeneration https://t.co/fCjA6sQ9EF

[Makeda Zook @MakZook]

Coming up at 8 pm tonight! #queerspawn #canqueer #Pride2018 🌈 https://t.co/pjkEIuJVMw

[The Rundown @therundowntvo]

Families headed by gay parents are not new, but being out as families? That’s newer for parents and their kids, and reflects the change that’s taken place over the past decades. Tonight on The Agenda, growing up with LGBTQ+ parents, with @sadesRose & @MakZook #canqueer #Pride

[Spawning Generations @SpawnGen]

Challenge accepted @GreggThurlbeck. @Marvel watch out for us #queerspawn #superheroes. Also check us out on TVO @TheAgenda tonight at 8pm. https://t.co/ADwCurNRYc