This is a HUGE project I’m working on, but for now I will share pieces of my life from the below. The full story will be available in a 📖

• My story, intersections & code-switching

• Feeling different in every sense

• Identity, belonging, origins, ethnicity, nationality & race

• Growing up in a multicultural home shaped by food, music, traditions & every skin shade, from pale white to dark skin Black

• Family history: the slave trade, Scotland, Jamaican plantations, sexual violence, genetics & ancestry research/testing

• Black Latino communities, segregation & “Little Jamaica” in Central/Latin America

• Parental Poverty, low-income upbringings & sugar addiction • Why I changed my last name

• My grandfather’s murder

• Christian & Catholic exposure

• Being AuDHD across cultures, burnout, chronic illness & invisible disabilities

• Culture shocks across white, Black, mixed & Hispanic communities

• Being the first mixed child on both sides of my family

• Learning about racism & colorism

• My parents testing racial bias in prices, rentals & treatment across Europe and the U.S., before cell phones

• How my family used racial + cultural privilege to protect each other

• My white mother’s racial & disability protection, and my dependence on it into adulthood

• Racial medical/dental trauma

• Horses in the mid-Southwest, the U.S. South, NY/MD & military-child life in Europe

• Moving 20+ times & having exactly 29 jobs (yes, there’s a list 😂) 

• My parents’ devastating divorce when I was 17

• Losing my dad & sister through ambiguous loss

• An abusive relationship, lifelong trauma & wanting to end my life

• A business dream turned nightmare: a major lawsuit & years fighting for justice

• Healing + therapy in: MD → Hawaii → Germany …and MORE.

About Intersections:

Intersections are important for identity because no one experiences the world through just one aspect of who they are. Our identities are made up of different characteristics, such as race, gender, sexuality, social class, religion, culture, and disability. These aspects overlap and interact with one another, shaping how we understand ourselves and how others perceive and treat us.

This concept is known as intersectionality, a term coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. It explains how different forms of privilege and discrimination can overlap, creating experiences that cannot be understood by looking at each identity separately.

Intersectionality helps us recognise that everyone's experiences are unique. It encourages us to look beyond single aspects of identity, understand inequalities more deeply, and build a more inclusive and empathetic society 🌍

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