There's something magical about having a girl gang that shares your cultural experience.
Associate editor, audience development, HuffPost CanadaThere's this antiquated notion that women can't have each other's backs. If there's one thing I've learned in my 20s in Toronto, it's that a woman will quite literally zip up the back of my dress as I struggle to leave the washroom lineup at a bar around 2 a.m.
It wasn't until eight years ago that I found my tribe in journalism school, at Ryerson University. Between long nights in editing suites and even longer rides on public transit, we quickly became a group of friends. I call them my"word witches" and we are constantly exploring the intricacies of being brown. Having immigrant parents gives you a certain set of experiences that only other people in the same boat — pun intended — can understand.
Sometimes, we lie about where we're staying the night or who we're flying with across the Atlantic Ocean. Some of us have to help pay our parents' bills. And some of us have no extended family here at all.
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