“Looking at my life, I never thought I would be a refugee. In the early ‘90s there was a war in Bosnia. In 1992, I was thirteen and we had to leave the country overnight. The situation was getting really bad and I left with my sister and my niece who was eight months old […]
"My family and I lived in a motel when I was 13 years old. I have lived experience with hidden homelessness. I understand poverty. I understand the ways in which poor people are stigmatized, marginalized, and how they are systemically oppressed in ways that financially privileged people aren’t. My thesis is critiquing the way that […]
“I’m Anishinaabe and back then it wasn't within the institutions and academies and school boards that I was getting my education. It was actually directly from the community, from the elders, from the spiritual leaders, from the activists that's where I was getting my knowledge from. I never went to high school. I was mostly […]
"I grew up in the small town of Bemidji, in northern Minnesota. When I was young I enjoyed and was very engaged in physical activity. At my high school, there were no sports for girls because I attended school before the Supreme Court Title IX ruling which legislated equality for girls' and women's sports and […]
"When I was younger I used to get sick a lot and as a result I would also stay home from school a lot. While I was at home I would spend hours on the computer seeing what I could create. One day when I was about 7 years old I was watching my dad […]
“Students come into my office and kind of poke around all the time, checking out at all the weird stuff I make, which is good. I talk to them about how this or that is done, or this is how you could make this. I like just having cool stuff on hand to show them, […]
“My mom was thirteen and my uncle was twelve when they escaped Vietnam. My grandma took the two of them and they all escaped by boat. They were refugees in Thailand for a couple of months and then they moved to Canada afterwards. My grandpa on my mom’s side died in the Vietnam war when […]
“I have been chosen to be a Supreme Court of Canada clerk in 2018. I am visually impaired student at Osgoode Hall Law School. The condition I have is called retinitis pigmentosa. The vision that I have is very narrow – like looking through a straw – and is very blurry – like a really […]
“Our whole team spiel/motto is just taking different dance styles under the umbrella of hip-hop and putting them together to create a set that is, you know, very different and multi-talented and multi-styled. The whole name, the whole point of our team is bringing together different styles and making something greater and that’s also the […]