as a trans person it's really important
for me to first of all study trans
issues because that's what I relate to
it's what I experience and to bring
attention to marginalized experiences.
sociology came along at a time of my
life when I needed more than just
well you an individual are responsible
for the world around you I mean yes but
also there are social forces at work
here as well. my thesis is about
masculinity and body image and
specifically I'm looking at the
experiences of plus-sized actors in the
film and television industry. so I think
one of the challenges over the past
let's say three years have been to find
my identity in Montreal, so as a
Canadian citizen also Haitian born and
Haitian raised. How do I identify myself
and how do I express my understanding of
the world and how do I understand the
world actually. For example like I did a
research study and my methodology was a
queer methodology and I felt the need to
state that because some of my peers were
like well you're privileging certain
people in your work and of course it's
important to privilege certain people in
your work especially minority people
because they don't get the space in the
texts and they don't get the space in
the Academy to have their stories heard
and actually represented accurately and
not voyeuristically. How do people
differentiate the religious expression
of voodoo and its cultural expression and I
think that's a main thing that my
project seeks to tackle, it's to
demystify voodoo. I think anyone who is
curious about life and the world around
them can benefit from sociology
it's like those app commercials there's
an app for that I wish I could
understand this phenomenon better well
there's a sociological theory for that
society doesn't really want us
to have free thought essentially and so
it definitely changed my life because I
don’t, I try to not have such a
egocentric view of the world and I think
that awareness can be taken in 
whatever you do in life and I think
that's what that's what I love
personally about Anthropology is that
awareness
