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“Hyphenated” examines identity among Canadians with hyphenated cultural identities. It explores tensions between heritage and home, language and belonging, pride and pressure. Centring young people’s experiences through interviews, “Hyphenated” asks: what does it mean to be Canadian, and what does home mean; capturing the quiet reality of existing in the-between.
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“Hyphenated” examines identity among Canadians with hyphenated cultural identities. It explores tensions between heritage and home, language and belonging, pride and pressure. Centring young people’s experiences through interviews, “Hyphenated” asks: what does it mean to be Canadian, and what does home mean; capturing the quiet reality of existing in the-between.
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Damini Awoyiga is a poet and former Youth Poet Laureate for the Halifax Regional Municipality (2023–2024). She is a freelance journalist with CBC Mainstreet and a member of the HRM Youth Advisory Committee. In 2025, she delivered her first TEDx Talk and is pursuing journalism at King’s College.
