Artist and activist Kate MacDonald’s experiences growing up black in Nova Scotia shaped her into a fighter for marginalized voices: “Even since a very young age—I grew up in Halifax and being that it is a smaller city I faced some ostrisization,” she says.
“I feel like through this young narrative that I had to create for myself, the seedlings for something were already in motion.” That something was The Magic Project, an initiative with the goal of highlighting the voices of marginalized communities and challenging stereotypes through facilitating self-determined representation. “The goal is to make everyone feel like they have a voice and that they matter,” explains McDonald.