A single joke can carry a lifetime of weight. Michelle opens up about the mother-in-law comments that seemed playful on the surface but hit a deep nerve, reigniting shame around sexuality, identity, and belonging. What starts as a family story becomes a blueprint for how high-achieving women can stop performing for approval, listen to their bodies, and draw boundaries that protect dignity. We walk through the uncomfortable middle: when a partner doesn’t notice the harm, when “respectin...
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A single joke can carry a lifetime of weight. Michelle opens up about the mother-in-law comments that seemed playful on the surface but hit a deep nerve, reigniting shame around sexuality, identity, and belonging. What starts as a family story becomes a blueprint for how high-achieving women can stop performing for approval, listen to their bodies, and draw boundaries that protect dignity. We walk through the uncomfortable middle: when a partner doesn’t notice the harm, when “respectin...
Breaking Through the Mask of Identity An Uncomfortable Duality: My Indian Family and My Blackness
We Wear The Masks
21 minutes
4 weeks ago
Breaking Through the Mask of Identity An Uncomfortable Duality: My Indian Family and My Blackness
The moments that shape us are not always loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet look in a crowded room, a careless joke in the back of a Jeep, or the way a family talks about people who look like you. Michelle opens up about growing up half Black and half Indian in Jamaica—immersed in Indian culture, carrying the family name, and still absorbing messages that her features and Blackness made her lesser. That gap between outward pride and inner doubt became the fuel for relentless performance: the ...
We Wear The Masks
A single joke can carry a lifetime of weight. Michelle opens up about the mother-in-law comments that seemed playful on the surface but hit a deep nerve, reigniting shame around sexuality, identity, and belonging. What starts as a family story becomes a blueprint for how high-achieving women can stop performing for approval, listen to their bodies, and draw boundaries that protect dignity. We walk through the uncomfortable middle: when a partner doesn’t notice the harm, when “respectin...
