2018 - 2023
Scarborough, Toronto
Toolbox was a program designed to encourage and build healthy relationships between girls, gender nonconforming youth, and boys, and to challenge gender stereotypes. Our aim is to support the development of self sufficiency and confidence: experiences that we, as womxn-identifying staff of Toolbox, had when we first learned to work with our hands. After learning various skills such as woodworking and electronics, participants design and build their own project with our assistance. As a curriculum coordinator and instructor, I developed and taught the woodworking classes, as well as supporting the electronics & craft classes. I was one of 3 core team members/ staff, working as the Curriculum Coordinator and as a Woodworking Instructor. Supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Special thanks to Leevalley and TMU’s Design + Technolology Lab for your support!