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Race Is a Story and No Single Narrative Defines Me
In a Toronto classroom, I was forced to confront how language makes one person “other” to the next
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Taking Hallucinogens with My Mom
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, she didn’t want chemo. Instead, she tried every other potion under the sun
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Family on the Front Lines of a Pandemic
Until my uncle was sent to care for patients in Wuhan, the outbreak didn’t feel real to me. If only we had all paid attention sooner
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The Pressure to Describe My “Background”
As a Black child in a brown family, I had to learn how to define my identity in a new way
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What I’ve Learned from What My Mother Has Forgotten
My mother’s dementia made me think about my own future in a new way
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How Euchre Healed My Family
We have played through illness, arguments, divorces, and death
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Why We Get Nostalgic about Junk Food
Modern diets are obsessed with nutrition. But there’s a reason we crave our childhood favourites
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Growing Up Mulroney
Their father was prime minister for nearly a decade. What was it like to be his sons?
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When Canada’s Immigration Policies Pull Families Apart
After years of training in Canada, my dad still had to go back to South Korea to get the job he deserved
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Talking to My Family about Race
For a long time, I was the only Black biracial person in my family. My relatives didn’t always accept that we shared different experiences
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