2SQTBIPoC Library & Education Center
WELCOME!
I Dream Library - a mixed media storytelling installation & Education Center
In 2019 AISHA KIANI (they/she) and RAKIM (he/him) launched I Dream Library™ online and in classrooms across Vancouver in partnership with the Vancouver School District. We exist to inspire change, equitable action and education standards that are accountable to 2SQTBIPoC children, families and communities.
WHAT WE DO:
Our focus is connect students, caregivers, educators & organizations with intersectional literature, customized teaching resources, and proprietary anti-racism training strategies. We work with & support diversity strategies for PAC's teachers, districts, universities & colleges, non-profits, publichers, provincial organizations and governments. We train educators to teach diverse human identities with antiracist practices in classrooms and childhood assessment entrains future generations with the kindness and values that saves lives & changes our world.
✊IDL is designing for K-12 Canadian Black History teaching resources, & preservice / inservice antiracism training for K-12 educators.
OUR IMMEDIATE NEED:
❤️$25,000 - operating costs
● I DREAM LIBRARY & Education Center - Canada's only "irl" mixed- media literary archive exclusively for K-12 education! This installation of our growing online library is accessible by appointment to educators, non-profits and community members. Also home to The INTERSECTIONAL DIVERSITY LEARNING™ LAB (the Teacher / Training arm of I Dream Library) where we design all our resources, trainings and events!
• The Curation & design curriculum matched resources for K-12 educators, home schoolers & distance learners:
Including:
✔️Canadian Black History
✔️African Diaspora - cultures, communities, histories and futures.
✔️Indigenous cultures & communities
✔️QTBIPOC families, characters and worldview
✔️Intersectional SOGI (Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity) stories
❤️Ways to Share & Contribute:
▷ with a group of friends and / or family.
▷ with your company or professional network.
▷ with your school, PAC, post secondary institution
▷ through a non profit organization or society
❤️Thank you for your support, contributions & shares! All gifters are recognized on our Wall of Thanks
INDIVIDUALS
SMALL BUSINESS
PRIVATE AND CORPORATE DONORS
FOUNDATION / SOCIETY GRANTS
SCHOLARSHIPS
SOCIALS:
EDUCATORS & ORGANIZATIONS SHARING / USING OUR RESOURCES:
Where You Can Find Us Across BC
BC GOVERNMENT ANTIRACISM CAMPAIGN
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FURTHER FUNDING GOALS:
❤️$250,000 - 2 years of curriculum matched resource development team needs:
✔️up to date technology & instructional equipment
✔️IDL LAB - resource center & library build out & operating costs
✔️K-12 Out of School Programming
✔️dedicated resource development teams
✔️marketing & website design
✔️accessibility design
✔️in-house design & distribution of IDL learning tools & services that will fund Canadian Black history & anti-racism curriculum matched resources in British Columbia and all provinces and territories across Canada.
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Thank You for your support - I Dream Library
ACKNOWLEDGEMNT
We are founded, nurtured and growing from the lived experiences of 2SQTBIPoC / Indigiqueer, Two-spirit Queer Trans Black Indigenous & PoC (People of Colour) educators, activists, artists and students. We gratefully co-create from the unceded ancestral lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔł (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations / colonial: Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
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