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— and sometimes struggle for— a sense of belonging in Quebec. In this edition, BCRC coordinator and poet Ayana Monuma shares a poetic plea for equality without erasing the beauty of difference.

“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 Katia Toimil-Bramhall, Executive Director of Seniors Action Quebec.

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— and sometimes struggle for— a sense of belonging in Quebec. In this third post of the series, Jessica Williams-Daley explores the contradictions, joys and injustices of her experience as a young Black English-speaker in Montreal.