Born in the suburbs of Montreal in 1966 to a white French-Canadian mother and a Black American father who had left by the time he was born, Stephen Dorsey has always lived in a world of dualities. As a bilingual, biracial man, straddling Black and white, English and French Canada.

In his deeply personal and insightful debut, he offers readers intimate and unfiltered access to his lived experience of anti-Black racism around the world, including Canada, the United States, and Europe, focusing on his formative years growing up in 1970s Montreal as a Black child in a white family headed by a racist stepfather, and details his personal awakening inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Stephen lives in Toronto, Canada, with his two young children. He also leads his own marketing management consultancy and creative studio.