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Rising Youth awards missINFORMED with grant to launch Book Club

Writer: the missINFORMED Teamthe missINFORMED Team
Jun 6, 20222 min read

Updated: Jul 29, 2023

Today, missINFORMED announces its first community-based Book Club program, funded by the Canada Service Corps’ Rising Youth program. missINFORMED’s Book Club offers a digital space for understanding and connecting on topics such as health narratives, equity and community wellness for women and gender diverse folks under 35 years of age. Selected books will focus on health issues which uniquely impact women and gender-diverse folks to help foster safe community conversations.


Throughout the months of June and July, Book Club registrants will receive the month’s reading material and a missINFORMED tote bag. Registrants will be invited to attend four session facilitated-discussion series to unpack and digest the material, and attend a private live Q&A with the book’s author.


This month’s selection is the national bestseller, Hello, I Want to Die Please Fix Me by Anna Mehler Paperny. Program registration opens today and closes on June 9, 2022.



The Book Club aims to connect community members to foster a digital community in a socially-distanced world, provide community members with the resources needed to understand lived experiences, and centre community voices and promote peer-to-peer learning from non-western perspectives including traditional, cultural and ancestral knowledge.


Rising Youth is a program led by TakingITGlobal to help young inspired Canadians take action through youth-led community service projects. Rising Youth grants are funded by the Government of Canada through the Canada Service Corps, a national movement to build a culture of volunteer service empowering young Canadians to make an impact.



For further information and media inquiries, contact Director of Communications, Stephanie Lasica, stephanie.lasica@missinformed.ca .


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missINFORMED primarily operates on the traditional land belonging to the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Attiwonderonk, Mississauga Peoples, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. However, we hope to support Nations across Turtle Island. We acknowledge that our actions contribute to the land we live on, and as such, we are tasked to be caretakers of this land and the people that inhabit it. For the individuals of immigrant and settler Canadian descent present on our team, we acknowledge that our positions on health, and our accessibility to healthcare, have been largely shaped by our own lived experiences, which encompass many privileges. We are committed to evaluate & decolonize our practices continually and do our best to incorporate the lived experiences of the land defenders and protectors within our work. We plan to use our platform to be inclusive of all women and gender diverse folks who call the geographical confines of what is currently known as Canada, home. We hope to build our organization to represent and support those with multiple identities, including but not limited to queer, trans, two-spirit, and non-binary folk, as well as those who are Black, Indigenous, or Persons of Colour. As an organization, we will try our utmost best to ensure that only individuals with lived experiences speak on behalf of their communities while still recognizing that communities of colour and the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community are not a monolith. While each member of missINFORMED brings their own experiences, education, and expertise, we are always motivated to keep learning and to keep expanding our repertoire and knowledge capacity.

Land acknowledgements like this one are a great start to decolonizing the current colonial systems by which we operate, but they are not the only thing we can do. For example, actively supporting the sovereignty of Indigenous Nations such as supporting policies and movements that give the land back to Indigenous Nations, policies that do not condemn Indigenous communities or make it more difficult for them to receive the support that they deserve, paying Indigenous people when their knowledge and emotional labour are requested, and so much more. You can learn more about the Nations you share this land with here. 

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