Representation and Visibility

This project began because there is simply too little data available on our community, let alone data that focuses on our voices and our needs.

Instead of a traditional research approach, we sought to create a community-led survey, where members of our community could drive and design the research project, and partner with researchers to assist in fulfilling our research goals.

We teamed up with local organization Out Youth to create the survey questions over the course of several months. We leaned on the project team’s collective experiences to generate the major topics of the survey.

We found that people in the QTBIPOC community face housing, transportation, employment, safety, and belonging disparities and thus focused on these areas in the survey.