In South Africa, I am not racially classified as Black. I am a Coloured woman, a race and culture with its own complex identity, history, and heritage. Many of us are deeply mixed, like I am. Our identity is layered, shaped by Indigenous, African, European, and Asian ancestry. It carries its own language, humour, traditions,ContinueContinue reading “Black History Month, Through My Own Lens”
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✨ Christmas Who Raised Me
Christmas looked different depending on where we spent it, with my dad’s family in Cape Town or with my mom’s family in De Aar in the Northern Cape. Two places, two cultures, two rhythms. And somehow, both became home. These are the Christmases that raised me. Table Mountain from Bloubergstrand — the view that alwaysContinueContinue reading “✨ Christmas Who Raised Me”
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