Dreaming Trans: A Collaborative Zine
How do we find each other?
This question guided the collaborative zine produced through Dreaming Trans: Method, Sex, and the Unconscious, a three-part seminar series held at McGill University in winter 2026.

Before social media, before blogs, before group chats and Discord servers, trans people found one another in the margins. In envelopes. In photocopied pages passed hand to hand, folded into pockets, mailed quietly across borders, trans folks shared lived experiences, knowledge, and support through zines. Zines weren’t just creative projects; they were lifelines.

The TransLab is proud to support the launch of the zine, Trans* Resistance Through Artful Existence, which emerged from The GenderFULL Meditation Project. This project was an eight-week, student-led community initiative run through the TransLab at Athabasca University.

The Trans* Student Connect is a digital space at Athabasca University for transgender, nonbinary, Two Spirit, and gender nonconforming students to meet, socialize, and connect.

Exploring identity, cultivating community, engaging in meditation, and centring discussions on a weekly theme inspired by an influential trans* Albertan. Reflections on an 8-week online group for Two-Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming individuals.

The TransLab is pleased to announce an upcoming free workshop where Albertan human rights lawyers will demystify the basics of trans* human rights in Alberta. Participants will be taken through a practical step-by-step guide, learning about reasons to file, what to expect, resources needed, and potential emotional impacts. The audience will have opportunity to ask questions that address their specific concerns. This workshop is primarily for trans* people in Alberta, but services providers, lawyers, and allied community members are invited and should benefit from the conversation.

The GenderFULL Meditation Project is an eight-week summer meditation and discussion group at Athabasca University, designed for Two-Spirit, transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming individuals to ground themselves in community and have conversations about trans* existence. These sessions will begin with a 15- to 20-minute guided meditation or grounding practice, followed by informal discussions centred on a weekly theme. No experience with meditation is necessary to participate.

To “gird your loins” is a common idiom with a comical edge, a metonymic and thus anticipatory expression. It is both a gendered and sexed declaration, meant to warn of upcoming difficulty or strenuous undertaking.

In 2023, the rise of the “parental rights” movement launched a series of demonstrations under the banner of the “1 Million March 4 Children” in opposition to sex and gender-inclusive education in Canada.