Rainbow Bracelets:
Safe Place Symbol

The rainbow is the sign of a Safe Place or a Safe Space for the Queer Community. The bracelet is a visual symbol of support and the willingness to learn about being a Safe Place. I add a Pop-It key chain as a nod to the new awareness that many Queer people are Neurodivergent.

Resource - It Gets Better

” I like the wine and not the bottle. Does that make sense?”

David Schitt- Schitt's Creek

Public Speaker

personal experiences and understanding as an able bodied, disabled, late in life lesbian!

Why I didn't know THIS sooner!

Hi, I’m Lisa DeVries

I am an able bodied, disabled, non-binary, lesbian. Passionate about sharing thoughts and information on everything that makes our Spaces Safer.

Lisa DeVries (she/her, they/them), Student Engagement Coordinator, Saskatchewan Polytechnic: I am incredibly fortunate to call Saskatchewan home all my life. The daughter of Dutch immigrants who chose to settle in Saskatoon over 60 years ago. I come from the ‘feral’ Generation X and I have been able to see this beautiful province from many vantage points. I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 19, which is something that has impacted every facet of my life, but just as my struggle with my sexuality was 'invisible', so was my reality of living with an incurable and debilitating disease at an early age.

I have many stories of my adventures, both coming out late in life and coming to terms of a progressing disease that makes for colorful moments and new understanding of what inclusion is, and what it could be, both in life and in the workplace.