Vincent Mousseau, MSc RSW

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship brings remarkable individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds into a life-changing community with a shared interest in making Canada and the world a better place.

In recognition of significant advocacy and social justice work within the queer and trans BIPOC communities in Nova Scotia.

The Government of Canada launched the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program in 2008 to strengthen Canada’s ability to attract and retain world-class doctoral students and establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning. Vanier Scholars demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and/or engineering and health.

The President’s Awards are intended to recognize the high academic achievements of students who have successfully been awarded major scholarships from the Tri-agency doctoral competitions.

The objectives of this scholarship are to stimulate student interest in humanities and social sciences, arts and literature research, and to support research excellence by providing the best applicants with financial assistance to undertake or pursue a master’s research program in humanities and social sciences, arts and literature fields.

The Laurent McCutcheon scholarship is an excellence scholarship for master’s students whose research subject is the realities of people of sexual diversity and the plurality of gender identities and expressions (LGBTQ2+).

The CGS M program provides financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in an eligible master’s program in Canada. This support allows these scholars to fully concentrate on their studies in their chosen fields.

Several awards, valued at up to $15,000 per year and renewable for two years, are awarded annually to full-time undergraduate students enrolled in Year Two of any degree program. The award is based on a combination of academic achievement, financial need, and community service.

A public lecture on how people learn to take care of one another when support is uneven or unreliable. Drawing on doctoral research and community-based work with Black queer and trans communities, Vincent Mousseau reflects on care as something practised over time, through relationship, attention, and shared responsibility.

This presentation examines how Black queer and trans communities in Tiohtià:ke ("Montréal")—especially within the kiki ballroom scene—develop collective care practices outside institutional health systems. Drawing on abolitionist, autoethnographic research, it theorizes the intravention of kiki care as an embodied, community-rooted response to medical, psychiatric, and state violence. Grounded in the work of Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Jafari S. Allen, and José Esteban Muñoz, the presentation foregrounds everyday relational practices as vital forms of autonomous, political care and invites participants to rethink what care can be when shaped through Black queer and trans life.

This talk explored the impact of ballroom culture on Black LGBTQ+ identity, weaving together storytelling and Africentric research principles. Through narratives drawn from community experiences, I aim to highlight how ballroom serves as both a space for self-discovery and resistance. Demonstrations of vogue and face, presented by Father Ali Old Navy, ground the discussion in the movement and creativity of the kiki scene, bringing its energy into the room. By blending research with lived experience, this talk captures the essence of ballroom as a site of identity formation and empowerment.

Bilingual, diverse in origin, and culturally rich, Montréal’s Black queer and trans communities have played an active role in making our city the vibrant metropolis that it is today. Despite these massive contributions, though, there is still a systemic underrepresentation of Black folks who are accessing services at organizations like RÉZO. The Kominote project set out to understand this underrepresentation. This community-run initiative consulted a vast array of Black guys who are into guys and non-binary folks to see how we could better address their needs and make our services safer and more accessible to them. The results that stemmed from this community needs assessment encourage us to think critically about the role that 2SLGBTQ+ organizations play in maintaining white supremacy—often without even being aware of it—and allow us to reflect on how we can do better to ensure that all members of our communities feel represented by our service offerings. This presentation will provide an overview of our theoretical framework, methodology, as well as the results of the study and the concrete actions that we plan to take to implement the recommendations of this report.

Fall 2022
Co-Teaching

Winter 2022
Teaching Assistant

Winter 2022
Teaching Assistant

Invited lecture on Africentric social work practice; designed session integrating assigned readings and facilitated seminar-style discussion on anti-racist and decolonial frameworks in practice.

Delivered lecture on anti-Blackness; structured interactive discussion linking theoretical frameworks to applied case analysis in human relations contexts.

Delivered lecture on Afropessimism, abolition, and Black joy; facilitated close reading and critical discussion at the intersection of race theory, aesthetics, and political thought.

Invited annually to design and deliver lecture modules on intersectionality and LGBTQ+ issues; facilitated extended seminar discussions and assessment-based engagement.

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Nova Scotia College of Social Workers

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Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

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Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec