It can sometimes feel like society wants to place everyone into a neatly defined box, whether it's "mother" or "Christian" or "Sikh" or "Nigerian" — but are people so easily summed up by a single word?

In reality, our personal identities are much more complicated. And it's often in the hyphens between identities that our true selves lie.

On this Now or Never, meet people who are trying to find where they belong in between the identities that define them.

Meet a group of 'recovering Christians', finding faith and family with other LGBTQ people in Halifax. 

We pull up a chair at the dinner table where a mixed race family is committed to learning a new language.

A Muslim lawyer fights for her job and her faith in the wake of the ban on religious symbols in Quebec.

A Vancouver chef finds the answers to his identity in making Chinese dumplings.