Category Stories

Ellery Luague

19 minEllery Luague (he/him) is a Toronto-based architect. We met in Scarborough in the winter of 2021 to talk about leaving home, family, and faith and sexuality. I Knew I was Different Early On I think I was three- or…

Samira Banihashemi: Finding Somewhere to Belong

15 minSamira Banihashemi (she/her) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary theatre designer with a focus on sound, set and lighting design. We met in Kensington Market during the winter of 2021 to chat about identity, immigration and finding somewhere to belong. Categorizing…

Catherine Caza: A Life of Learning & Action

17 minCatherine Caza (she/her) is a social worker based in Toronto. We met in the fall of 2021 to talk about identity, trauma, rediscovering cultures, and helping others. Content warning: suicide, trauma, adoption, residential schools, racist slurs, abuse, drug use.…

Charlie Cho: Doing Life for Me

12 minCharlie Cho (they/them) is based in Toronto. We met in the fall of 2021 to talk about test driving pronouns, language barriers with parents, and realizing that we’re not white. Raised by the Internet I’ve always been chronically online,…

Dai Alvarez: Living Authentically at the Intersection

20 minDai Alvarez (he/him) is a rap artist based in Toronto. We met in the fall of 2020 and chatted about demisexuality and asexuality, being mixed race and coming to terms with our cultural identity, and cultural appropriation. Dai’s mom…

Agnes Teodoro: Life is Messy, But I’m Still Here

13 minAgnes Teodoro (they/them) is a creative with a background in theatre, and film and TV, based in Brampton, ON. We met during the fall of 2020 in Brampton and spoke about the challenges of growing up with two first…

AW: Finding a Way in Unfamiliar Land

Overhead shot of grass, with tips of shoes on bottom and red maple leaf on top.

15 minAW (she/her) is a film and television student at Humber College in Toronto. We met at the University of Toronto during the fall of 2020. We spoke about diversity in the film industry, living in between Eastern and Western…

Denim Blù: Breaking Stereotypes as a Gay Chinese Musician

Artistic shot of Asian man in bathtub wearing wet white shirt.

8 minDenim Blù (he/him) is an emerging Toronto-based singer-songwriter. I met him in the autumn of 2020 at Hart House Circle Park not far from the University of Toronto where he studied music. We talked about his multi-continent journey from…

Jeff Ho: Activism, Anger, and Forging a Life in the Arts

Asian man sitting on park bench looking into the camera. Jeff Ho.

15 minJeff Ho (he/him) is a theatre actor, playwright, and dramaturge based in Toronto. I met with him in the summer of 2020 at Riverdale Park East. We talked about theatre, about activism, about being Chinese immigrants who grew up…