\u0027What trans folks face right now is just one example of a very large, interconnected, well\u002Dresourced pushback on human rights writ large.\u0027
I am the proud child of immigrants, and I grew up in Brampton. My parents are from Ghana, and I grew up in a relatively large but close-knit diasporic community. My experience as someone born in this country to immigrant parents — and growing up in a working-class immigrant community — informed and shaped many of my views around politics and the world.
During the last school board elections, we unearthed what was happening here and across the country where a number of relatively high-profile transphobic candidates were running to halt curricular changes and policies advancing gender diversity. Q. You’re very involved in the community outside of your day job, including the work you did on the Ottawa People’s Commission on the trucker convoy. You write and speak publicly a lot. Why are you so involved like that?Article content
It’s so important to look at the lessons learned from previous generations, who have laid the foundation for the things that we are benefiting from now, and I always say this in the context of today’s LGBTQ rights. At a time when they were facing the most risk, they fought for us to have the language to define our experiences. And for the visibility that has benefited not only my generation, I would even say more so younger generations.
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