In echo to Am I not a woman?, a famous speech by African-American abolitionist activist Sojourner Truth in 1851, Rosa Pires signs a first personal and original essay on a burning topic of current events. Born in Quebec to Portuguese immigrants, a long-time sovereignist, something in her breaks at the time of the Charter of Values; she begins to feel like a foreigner in her own country. Between women from minorities and the project of independence of the Quebec nation, an already shaky bridge has broken.

The political scientist then decided to conduct a survey of 10 second-generation women from immigrant backgrounds to gauge their views on inequality, belonging and the national question. Women of conviction with unusual backgrounds, they all dream of the moment when their bodies, their clothes or their names will cease to be markers of difference or invisibility. They claim their place as engaged Quebec citizens. In their own right.