2019 Chapters (Layout Features)

Gwayakotam, She Finds out the Truth

Steele, Shanese Indoowaaboo

How can I identify as an Aboriginal woman if I don't look like one? If I’m only a small percentage in the eyes of others? How do I have the right? It’s the same question I asked myself when I identified with my Latina heritage, with my white heritage. I mean I am French and Irish, I am Venezuelan, I am Cree, Ojibwa and Métis as much as I am Trinidadian, and yet I always feel like I’m a fraud. Although I look black, I don't feel black enough to identify as black. Although I can pass as Latina, I don't feel as if I’m enough. Although I know so much about my Aboriginal culture and I do identify as Aboriginal, I never feel like it's enough. And although I have a rich French and Irish heritage, because I don't look “white” I feel like I will never be enough to identify. So I guess the question I am left with is: will I ever be enough? And are myself and my friend the only multiracial people that feel this way?