The good Black man, the one so many Black women say they've given up on finding, does he really exist? I see one every time I look in the mirror. My name is Jacob Voltaire and I was born in the City of Calgary, Alberta, to Haitian immigrant parents. My folks, Antoine and Magdalene Voltaire moved to provincial Alberta from their hometown of Port-De-Paix, Repu...
My name is Ghaniyah Hafsah Wakil. My friends call me Ghani. I'm a young Black Muslim woman of Ethiopian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. A lot of men are intimidated by me because I am very tall and happen to be a loud, outgoing type of female. So much for the stereotype of the African Muslim woman as quiet and submissive. Sometimes...
We did many things that managed to get ourselves into trouble; we did even more things that should have got ourselves into a spot of bother and didn't. We did get lucky; we got a lot of bollockings and "advice for the future" but we also got away with many more shenanigans than we were ever caught for. Alicia and I fed off each other; excitement and sillines...
My name is Marguerite Bonheur Sinclair, and I'm here with a story to tell. I was born in the City of Montreal, Province of Quebec, on January 2, 1961. My family has been in Canada ever since the region of Quebec was called New France. I'm as French-Canadian as the fleur-de-lys itself, which kind of bothers my friends when they find out about my preference in...
I can't stand politics, man. Why is everyone always obsessed with the life of the Black woman in America? Since when does the White media give a damn about us? I mean, a White guy named Zimmerman shoots an unarmed young Black man in Florida and it takes the entirety of the African-American community's activist network to force the rest of America to give a d...
My name is Lorena Elisabeth Rosenthal, and I'm a young woman living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I was born in the City of Tel Aviv in the State of Israel. My family moved to the Confederation of Canada about eleven years ago. I am twenty two years old and attend Carleton University, where I major in Criminal Law. I was raised Jewish, and for most of my l...
Stop making assumptions about a woman just because of how she dresses or behaves in public, ladies and gentlemen. Seriously. The name is Ayaan Ismail and I'm a young Black Canadian Muslim woman of Somali descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I was born in the City of Mogadishu, Somalia, and lived there until the twelfth summer of my life. That's whe...
You're no son of mine! Those were the first words which left my father's mouth when I finally told him my truth. My name is Nidal Abdul-Jabbar. I am twenty years old. I study business administration at the University of Ottawa in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I was born in the City of Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but raised in the Confederatio...
The name is Simon Jean-Pierre. A big and tall young Black man of Haitian descent currently living in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. I was born in Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa in the Confederation of Canada. I always wanted to live in America, ever since I visited many years ago. At the age of twenty six, I decided to take the plunge. What did I have to lo...
John Doe was a perfectly normal guy. He was neither fat nor thin, neither tall nor short, neither too handsome nor too ugly. In fact, he was the kind of person you would never notice among the crowd. And, of course, his sexual behavior was normal too: he's interested in girls and girls only. Somehow, he managed to get a girlfriend. Her name is Jessica. Unlik...