Former journalist Sunny Dhillon went viral in 2018 when he wrote a blog post about quitting his high-profile job in a Vancouver newsroom. Now, he is reflecting on that experience, as well as a lifetime of systemic racism, in a new memoir.

Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin comes seven years after “Journalism While Brown and When to Walk Away,” a piece Dhillon wrote the day he served notice to the Globe and Mail‘s Vancouver bureau.

The book begins by recounting an encounter the author and his daughter had while on a playground near their home in Ottawa. They were there with another father and his child, when that father made fun of another child’s unpronounceable name, which he called a joke, marveling at how the parents could have chosen it.

This sparked memories for Dhill

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