Feminism and Immigrant Youth Experiences By

This will be the first in a series of blog posts where I explore my immigrant youth experience, for the first time, and through a critical feminist perspective. Staying engaged in immigrant communities is difficult enough, but this engagement is complicated when remembering the intersectional theories of oppression I have learned. How do you reconnect […]

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Being far By

It has been 4 years and 5 months since I left my country. It was a big adventure, moving away alone, to a new country and a new culture. A few weeks before leaving my 5 years old nephew said: ”My aunt Laura is moving to a country called Canada, and over there, she doesn´t have any friends!”

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What’s in a name? By

On Sunday I went to the Makila collective’s latest screening of videos & films, the Soirée MAKILA at the SAT in Montreal to see Ellen Tang’s 8min documentary Girl Anymore. “Can you choose who you become? A first-person exploration of two-generations experience with choice and transition”as the synoposis says…

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