Stories. They’re a part of who we are. The stories of our friends and family remind us of the diverse ways to live. Our own stories reaffirm our place in the world. Telling our stories makes our life’s moment less lonely. Stories articulate who we are, where we are going. Listening to stories can entertain, inspire, and challenge us.

And we want you to tell us your stories.

My Uncomfortable Hoodie (MUH) is a podcast and bi-annual evening of stories, told and recorded in front of a live audience. Organized through the Grace Jollymore Joyce Arts Centre in Tatamagouche’s Creamery Square in Nova Scotia, MUH aims to challenge our unchecked assumptions, broaden our capacity for empathy, and shine a light on the challenges we have overcome, failures still being processed, and success that’s not wholly understood. It creates wrecking balls out of narratives to break down our barriers.

We’re focusing on stories of manhood and womanhood, childhood transforming into adulthood, selfhood evolving into parenthood, on narratives that challenge how we think of the gender binary’s fluidity, on histories of managing open and hidden identities, and on narratives that challenge conventional knowledge.

The world is complicated.
And we want your stories to help us sort through the jungle.

Thank you to Heritage Canada, their EQUITY FUND, and Communities Foundation of Nova Scotia for their support in making MUH possible.