Jamaican/Indian | Jamaican/Swedish
I identify as multi-ethnic, religious to my morals but resonate with Stoic and Buddhist teachings. My pronouns are her and I am a straight and strong woman. Both of my parents are of mixed heritage, my Mum is mixed Jamaican & Swedish and my Dad is Jamaican & Indian.
Art is very dear to me and it is something I have grown up with as my Dad was a musician. I was blessed to grow up around music as it gave me another form of expression by responding to it through my body, especially since I was shy. A lot of my understanding of the world came through art. I am now a professional movement artist. My main area of focus is dance and I typically identify with street-dance in HipHop culture. The discipline has allowed me to travel globally from a young age to judge, compete, teach, create, perform and I thank my parents for trusting me to take these journeys and for nourishing my art form with love, respect and appreciation.
To be honest, I have always acknowledged that even though I am mixed-race I will always be seen as a person of colour which inevitably puts me within the colourist wheel and with that comes prejudice, discrimination, racism. I understand the first thing people see is how you appear so you automatically become judged, but in many instances that judgement can be dismantled by how you approach the situation and not have the idea that someone is already making a judgement of you in their head. I believe this is what frees your mind of racial stress. It is not that I don’t see colour that would be counterproductive, it is that I just don’t use it as an excuse for things that make it unhealthily important.
Like every other human being who has compassion. I am sad that racial issues are only being taken seriously on a global scale now when it’s been happening for years. But I am happy that the world has indeed woken up a little. Let’s not get too comfortable, there’s more to be done to guarantee the future generations safety as well as their physical and mental health. I feel we can reduce systemic racism with the right actions asserted so let’s continue to be smart and put in the work.
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