Sly Sarkisova (he/they) is a Toronto based queer and nonbinary trans activist, writer and
psychotherapist. He is an early trailblazer in nonbinary trans health advocacy, and is currently working
on his PhD.
Sly spent his 20s in the early 2000s creating language and legitimacy for nonbinary identification in
Vancouver and Toronto, when no one recognized our identities. In 2009-2013, he wrote over 200 pages
on his blog The Space In Between, theorizing and creating space for transmasculine folks to claim
butch/female, nonbinary, and trans identities at once to embrace identities which our communities and
the medical establishment tried to control and extinguish. For the bulk of the past two decades Sly has
created space for our communities to heal, and to have appropriate mental health care helping us
understand and reclaim our identities in all their forms from systems of oppression. In his private
practice, as a Clinical Supervisor and Consultant, Sly has spent the past decade training healthcare and
mental health care professionals across disciplines to see the validity, gain knowledge, skills and
awareness of our diverse gender identities. His legacy of trans nonbinary activism largely goes
undocumented due to the extent of erasure of his identity and perspective. He is currently pursuing a
PhD in Social Work, with a focus on elevating his life's work and nonbinary trans knowledge into the
Academy. His areas of study are 1) Trans Knowledgeable Psychotherapy, and 2) Anti-Trans Fascist
Rhetoric. Sly is a great animal, nature lover, community and chosen family cultivator. Find out more
about his work and legacy here: https://www.slysarkisovacounselling.com/biography.
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