English/Jamaican | Unknown
I was in foster care as a baby then later adopted so it hasn’t always been the easiest thing for me in my life, to pinpoint my specific heritage due to my past and life experience. I’m not one for being massively big on categorising certain things or having to try to specify what I don’t fully know. Through wisdom, patience and self-love I’ve come to learn, understand, find comfort and self-assurance that’s ok to not fully know, and quite normal really. This makes me human, it makes me unique, it makes me, me. And if this adds any value of benefit to someones life that it may help or resonate with then all the more better. My Mum who adopted me is half Dominican and half English, my adopted Dad is English. My biological Father is unknown, although as naive as this may sound, there’s been speculation that he was Pakistani. My biological Mother is half Jamaican, half English, my Mum supervised a meeting with her and my half biological sister when I was 12 years old so I could put a picture to her face and grasp an understanding of my identity, for which I am forever grateful. I love being a bit of everything, and that people often become confused and wondering what I am can be both a blessing at a curse at the same time. I like the fact that I don’t try to blend in and that I’m so comfortable by being in my own skin, with the ability to be a chameleon and shift between my repertoire of ethnicities. It’s having a wider sense of connection to other cultures because you yourself are made up of one or many, I’m proud that I have deep interest to learn so much about different cultures. Which allows me to see things from more than one perspective, constantly.
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