Alyx Duffy

Who Is Alyx Duffy?

Born in the mid- ‘80s, Alyx has grown up and come of age as a genderqueer person against the backdrop of incredible social transformation in Tkaronto (the original Mohawk name at the root of the name Toronto). Since 2010 Alyx’s work has focussed on 2SLGBTQI inclusion across the country, with a strong focus on creating safer and inclusive spaces like Gender-Sexuality Alliances, also known as GSAs. Their work as a facilitator leaves participants of all ages feeling empowered & educated to create safer and more inclusive communities for 2SLGBTQI people from all walks of life.

Alyx’s work is rooted in their ever-evolving attempts to understand themselves in context. As an able-bodied, white-presenting, MAAB, dyadic, neuro-typical, lean, university educated, English speaker, with a middle-class, settler family background they recognize the many ways in which they benefit from systems of privilege operating around them. Understanding and leveraging this privilege, while teaching others to do the same, is a key element of their work in communities across the country, as well as in their life at home. 

As a genderqueer, multi-ethnic, and pansexual person they’re also compelled by their own experiences of invisibility, discrimination and marginalization to push the limits of normative social institutions. Alyx enjoys encouraging everyone to consider how they can make their community safer and more inclusive for each and every complex and dynamic individual. 

Alyx uses “they/them/their” pronouns, and asks others to use these pronouns in reference to them.