Hassan Iqbal never intended to become a cab driver. When he was a teenager in Lahore, Pakistan, he dreamed about becoming a doctor or an engineer. “But then I put my dreams in the back and said, ‘I have to make money for my siblings, my family.’”
Yves Tong Nguyen (they/she/he) is queer, trans, disabled, Vietnamese, and a sex worker. All of these identities have shaped the way they live their life, which they’ve chosen to live as an activist and community builder, learning the importance of authenticity all the while.
Rayan Itani grew up in a house bursting with different languages. Her mother is Lebanese and her father is Mexican. She grew up speaking Arabic, French, Spanish and English. It was a linguistic whirlwind.