Views from Here is a youth guest blog series featuring voices from youth from our COM-Unity partner organizations. In the series, English-speaking youth share what it means to them to find a sense of belonging in Quebec. In this first post of the series, Matthew Mullone, a young academic and musician associated with BCRC shares his first person perspective on the frictions of arriving to Quebec as an English-speaking Black person.

“In the Right Place” is a blog series of the COM-Unity project featuring conversations with our partner organizations. In each conversation, we try to get a sense for how belonging takes shape in their specific communities, and how the places we inhabit shape us—and how we, in turn, shape them. Today’s conversation is with Ayana Monuma, coordinator of the Where They Stood project at the Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC).