Vincent Mousseau
PhD Student and Registered Social Worker
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Vincent Mousseau
PhD Student and Registered Social Worker
Welcome! I’m Vincent Mousseau (they/he), a social worker, researcher, and abolitionist activist committed to reimagining care and support models for Black 2SLGBTQ+ communities in so-called Canada. Based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal, QC), my work is rooted in anticolonial, Afropessimist, and abolitionist approaches, challenging oppressive systems and building radically accessible, transformative alternatives to care.
As a Vanier Scholar and PhD student in Health at Dalhousie University, my research examines how Black 2SLGBTQ+ communities navigate, resist, and create care outside of oppressive structures. I explore ballroom culture as a site of resistance, the intersections of transformative justice and community health, and survival strategies in the face of social work’s carceral logic.
This site is a space where I share my academic work, activism, and reflections on building self-determined, liberatory, and community-driven models of care. I invite you to explore my approach, ongoing projects, and ways we can collectively create spaces of care and justice. This space is constantly evolving—check back regularly to see what I’m working on.
As a Vanier Scholar and PhD student in Health at Dalhousie University, my research examines how Black 2SLGBTQ+ communities navigate, resist, and create care outside of oppressive structures. I explore ballroom culture as a site of resistance, the intersections of transformative justice and community health, and survival strategies in the face of social work’s carceral logic.
This site is a space where I share my academic work, activism, and reflections on building self-determined, liberatory, and community-driven models of care. I invite you to explore my approach, ongoing projects, and ways we can collectively create spaces of care and justice. This space is constantly evolving—check back regularly to see what I’m working on.
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I live and work on the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, colonially known as Montréal — a gathering place for many Indigenous Nations, including the Kanien’kehá:ka, who are recognized as traditional stewards of these lands.
As a PhD student at Dalhousie University and a registered social worker, I also acknowledge that the university operates within the unceded and ancestral territories of the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey, and Peskotomuhkati Peoples — sovereign Nations with inherent rights and responsibilities. The Peace and Friendship Treaties, which remain in effect, are not historical relics but living agreements. They call all of us, especially settlers, to uphold our responsibilities in practice, not only in words. Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, affirms Aboriginal and Treaty rights — but it is our collective obligation to ensure these rights are respected, protected, and upheld.
I also honour the histories, presence, and ongoing resistance of African Nova Scotian communities — a distinct people whose roots in Mi’kma’ki extend over 400 years. These communities, grounded in over 52 land-based settlements, continue to resist systemic anti-Blackness and fight for justice, dignity, and self-determination.
As a researcher, writer, and member of the kiki ballroom community, I understand that my work is entangled in colonial systems and structures that have long marginalized Indigenous and Black life. I am committed to challenging these systems through an abolitionist, decolonial, and Black queer lens — one rooted in community care, mutual aid, and resistance. Ballroom, for me, is not only a cultural space, but a site of speculative care, political possibility, and survival for Black queer and trans people.
I take seriously my responsibility to learn, unlearn, and act in solidarity. Decolonization is not a metaphor. I affirm the need to return land, resources, and power to Indigenous Peoples, and to build a future rooted in accountability, relationality, and liberation. I stand in unwavering solidarity with Indigenous and Black communities across Turtle Island and beyond, who continue to resist colonial violence and imagine freer worlds.
As a PhD student at Dalhousie University and a registered social worker, I also acknowledge that the university operates within the unceded and ancestral territories of the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey, and Peskotomuhkati Peoples — sovereign Nations with inherent rights and responsibilities. The Peace and Friendship Treaties, which remain in effect, are not historical relics but living agreements. They call all of us, especially settlers, to uphold our responsibilities in practice, not only in words. Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, affirms Aboriginal and Treaty rights — but it is our collective obligation to ensure these rights are respected, protected, and upheld.
I also honour the histories, presence, and ongoing resistance of African Nova Scotian communities — a distinct people whose roots in Mi’kma’ki extend over 400 years. These communities, grounded in over 52 land-based settlements, continue to resist systemic anti-Blackness and fight for justice, dignity, and self-determination.
As a researcher, writer, and member of the kiki ballroom community, I understand that my work is entangled in colonial systems and structures that have long marginalized Indigenous and Black life. I am committed to challenging these systems through an abolitionist, decolonial, and Black queer lens — one rooted in community care, mutual aid, and resistance. Ballroom, for me, is not only a cultural space, but a site of speculative care, political possibility, and survival for Black queer and trans people.
I take seriously my responsibility to learn, unlearn, and act in solidarity. Decolonization is not a metaphor. I affirm the need to return land, resources, and power to Indigenous Peoples, and to build a future rooted in accountability, relationality, and liberation. I stand in unwavering solidarity with Indigenous and Black communities across Turtle Island and beyond, who continue to resist colonial violence and imagine freer worlds.