Clayton Yang

“When I first came here when I was six, I was excited, but it was kind of overwhelming and confusing. Back home in South India—in a small state called Kerala—the environment is so different. Everything revolves around your family, so you're not alone for the most part. Coming here, I kind of lost that. I was suddenly surrounded by people who don't even know what my culture is or my identity.” “So now I'm trying to find that identity again. It started with us going to church and seeing that...

“I love my brown food, so when I first came to Canada, I took it to school. I couldn’t really blame the other kids—they didn’t know what I was eating—but they’d look at it and say, ‘Ew, what are you eating?’” “But when I went to Sunday school, everyone had the same food and shared the same experiences. Then that kind of built a connection—that we experienced the same struggles and oppression.” “Volleyball started off with my dad. Back home, he used to play with his friends. After becoming...

At six years old, Abdul Hussein was racing his friends at an after-school program in Regent Park. At seventeen, he was racing through the...