For Benny Michaud, learning how to explain their identity has been a lifelong journey.
Growing up in the Métis community of St. Boniface in Winnipeg, Michaud says they always knew they were neither a boy nor a girl, but finding the right words to help people understand how they view themselves has taken a lot of energy.
They refer to themselves as a tasta-ee-iniw, which means a person who is “in-between” in the Michif and Cree languages.
“For me, that’s a term that is really important, because I find that it allows that part of me that I value to be understood by
