Who am I?

What makes us who we are? Are we simply a sum of our experiences? Are we what society sees in us or do we get to define ourselves?

As Whitman once said, we “contain multitudes”, but often society marks us as one thing or another. We may spend a lifetime trying to break out of the narrow box in which society puts us. Other times, circumstances force us to reinvent ourselves.

The mother of a gay son has transformed her views and is now helping other parents do the same. People living with HIV attempt to cope with heightened stigma when a criminal law is revived. The climate crisis is forcing a fisherwoman to question her 20-year career and whether she has a future. A country strives to balance its vital, immediate needs with visions of a greener future.

These are stories of people and societies working to define and redefine their identities, attempting to carve out a space for themselves in the process.