I was born and raised in Vancouver which is on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. My parents arrived in these lands when they were teens, leaving behind their own birthplaces in search of a better place to start a family and to call home. They were, themselves, the children of displacement. My grandparents, too, left their homes to flee the violences that pervaded their own country in the early–mid 1900s. In some ways, I continued to carry this tradition. I lived nomadically for a time, and lived most recently in Toronto by the edge of Lake Ontario, the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.