ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the use of two concurrent art therapy groups, one with transgender, ‘Two-Spirit’, and nonbinary individuals and another for their significant others, friends, families, and allies in Yukon territory, Canada. The author demonstrates how trust, relationships, and community resulted in the individuals in the art therapy group creating an art exhibition for the public with the intention of knowledge sharing, education, social action, and change. The chapter explores the following themes: how art supports anti-oppressive practice through reflexivity, the studio as a setting for peer support and education through sharing lived experiences, art as a tool for subversive and boundary crossing modes of communication. It aims to show how studio art therapy practice can inform art therapists who aim to support art therapy participants with marginalised identities in being heard by the larger community, and how this relates to social change.
