The Human Library took place yesterday at the War Museum and five branches of the Ottawa Public Library. There were sixty “human books” which people could borrow for one-on-one 20-minute conversations.

They included:

CBC radio personalities
OC Transpo bus driver
Muslim woman
Sex worker
Peking Opera performer
Children’s Aid worker
Person with bi-polar disorder
Paramedic
Stripper
Neurosurgeon
Judge
Police Officer
Farmer
Refugee from Haiti
Urban Inuk
Defense lawyer
Transgender woman
War artist

I borrowed [...]