November Newsletter
Ok, now that the gayest holiday has passed and everyone has completed their yearly re-watch of Rocky Horror Picture Show, we know that you’re feeling the blues…
Good thing we know just the cure!
Delicious, warm soup made with
💞LOVE💞
for you and all your fantabulous queer and trans pals!
You don’t want to miss the last soup of 2026 that will fill your bowl and keep your heart warm through the winter. Happening…
November 14th, 2026
Doors at 5pm, Dinner at 5:30(ish)pm
Oaklands Community Center
2827 Belmont Ave
Keep reading to find out details about this month’s Queer Community Soup as well as some bonus important updates!
🥣 Upcoming Soup 🥣
🤝 This Month’s Collaboration 🤝
We are SO excited to introduce this month’s collaboration and funds recipient - 🇵🇭 Anakabayan Victoria 🇵🇭
Anakbayan (“Youth of the Nation”) is a progressive Filipino youth organization that organizes for the rights and welfare of Filipinos in so-called Canada and in the Philippines.
Grounded in the experiences of the masses, they emphasize both community organizing and political education to address the worsening conditions Filipino youth and students face. Anakbayan Victoria - Lekwungen situates these struggles within the broader issues in the Philippines, including fascism, a backward and underdeveloped agricultural sector, and imperialist policies that displace Filipinos and compel many to seek work overseas.
Their goal is to advance the collective struggle for genuine national liberation and justice for Filipinos worldwide in the belief that a strike against imperialism in one place is a strike against imperialism everywhere.✊
Through Queer Community Soup’s initiative to bring queer folks together through food and community, we hope to create space for conversations about how our struggles are connected and how we can build solidarity across our communities. Funds generated from soup donations will go towards supporting the “Helping Hands in Service 17” campaign that works to receive justice for 17 victims of labour trafficking from the Philippines. Some of the funds will also go towards supporting everyday on the ground organizing efforts.
Join us on November 14th to learn more and support Anakbayan Victoria - Lekwungen, be gay, and eat soup!
🥕What’s on the Menu & Soup Ingredient List 🥕
The soups for this month are un-be-LEAF-able 🍂
🧑🍳 Chef Hailey’s fingers are sore from shucking 90 cobs of 🌽 to bring you this month’s amazing soups. Hailey and Robin + our amazing team of volunteers will be serving up three lovely options, including a Filipino favourite:
1) Corn Chowder - gluten free with chicken stock, milk, heavy cream, corn kernels, onion, large carrot, celery, Yukon potatoes, sea salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, paprika, thyme, sage.
- optional garnish: chives2) Roasted Cauliflower Soup - gluten free and vegan with cauliflower, onion, roasted garlic, white beans, olive oil, vegetable stock, cumin, salt, pepper.
- optional garnishes: parsley, chives3) Beef Sinigang - gluten free with halal beef, tamarind, green beans, eggplant, daikon, spinach, tomato, onion, hot pepper, fish sauce, black pepper. Served with white rice.
- optional garnishes: fish sauce, hot pepper.
🌈🥄 A “Spoonful” of 2SLGBTQIA+ History 🥄🌈
Wait! Before you go, you forgot to take your spoonful of history!
Inciting awareness into action, November holds some important days that are worth acknowledging and participating in.
DID YOU KNOW…
That November is Transgender Awareness Month?
The purpose of Transgender Awareness Month is to help increase public understanding about the experiences of trans+ people by taking action and educating folks, with a focus on inciting advocacy efforts for trans+ rights, safety, and joy.
🏳️⚧️💙💖🤍💖💙🏳️⚧️
🗓️ Mark your calendars for:
November 13 - 19: Transgender Awareness Week
November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance
At a time when transgender, non binary, gender non conforming, 2Spirit, and gender diverse people are becoming more and more targeted by extreme violence and discrimination, it is imperative that the larger society comes to learn the real facts about who trans+ people are, and the realities that they face.
Transgender Awareness Week is observed the week before Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) to start conversations about the prejudices that trans+ people face, and what WE (as queer, trans, and allied people) can do to demonstrate solidarity with the trans+ community.
TDOR was founded in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a day to memorialize the one year death anniversary of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was wrongfully killed in 1998. Since then, November 20th has become a day of world-wide observance, to honour and mourn the deaths of trans+ people who have been lost to violence.
If you are interested in attending an event in our community, see details below:
NOW THAT YOU KNOW..
A few questions to consider (maybe held in the literal or figurative arms of community with a warm bowl of soup in your lap on November 14th)
What joys do trans+ people / the trans+ experience bring to your life?
Do you intend to participate in TDOR this year? How can you hold space to honour and remember trans+ folks during this day?
What are the ways that you’re showing up for the trans+ community right now?
Bonus! (Important)
Wow. You read this far? We are SO proud of you and thank you for taking time out of your day to read our babble.
A few wee final updates:
Our team is taking a pause and going on break for December and January, so there will be NO Queer Community Soup events for these months.
We cannot wait to welcome you back in February for a very special (and spicy) collaboration… ❤️🔥
We are ALWAYS accepting donations. If you are feeling extra giving this holiday season, feel free to e-transfer funds to [email protected]. All funds go directly towards the soup you eat and the community that you love!
Alright pals, that’s it that’s all for this month’s newsletter. We will see you in February for the next Queer Community Soup! 💞 Until then, stay cozy!
