[Kayf Abdulqadir and Hodan Hujaleh are] two … festival participants [who] are working to combat stereotypes using the medium of YouTube channels. "There was nobody that looked like us," says Kayf Abdulqadir, a Somali Muslim from Ottawa. With Hodan Hujaleh, also a Somali Muslim living in Canada, she has two YouTube channels that present short videos showing realistic aspects of their own lives – Specs and Veil Productions and The Cool Ciyaal, (or "the cool kids," in Somali). "We've never seen ourselves in the media," Hujaleh agrees.
"The response was amazing," celebrates Abdulquadir. Their video, "10 Types of Somali Girls," went viral and earned them an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.