08/08/2025
My most revered descriptor that proceeds my name or follows is “Katherine’s Daughter.” Your parents voice definitely becomes your internal voice and barometer and THANK YOU GOD for arming me with her voice in my esteem, worth, and my compass!
I grew up always hearing my Mom speak to the EVERYTHING of black girls and women. It didn’t come across as forced lessons but an ongoing soundtrack to my value and divine design!
And in the biggest to smallest ways, my lens is do I see the best of me reflected in this world, environment, connection, etc. For example, I have ALWAYS had issue with these machines that make brown hues literally invisible. So this machine is meant to capture my identity to be recognized as an approved presence on this site while having me wear myself as a blacked out figure with my name next to it! So I typically would not wear these on me as a badge and I would always make a comment )if only for my self expression) to say “this company really should invest in equipment that properly identifies the range of humans that walk in as guests.” And the person (if they were in proximity of appearance to me) would agree or the person would be right off guard that I made apparent apparent! I would also end these moments with a smirk and the inside voice declaring “I’m Katherine’s Child.”
Why? Because I grew up hearing my Mom share how she experienced the world as a little black girl & young black teenager to evolving woman, growing up thinking it was unfair that black women had to figure out how to PEACE meal things to compliment their beauty or imagine what matters look like or feel in the reflection or complexion of herself. So when the world did their best attempts in my childhood to reflect my family and myself, my mother made sure to inundate me with those visuals because the world operated off of lessening me for the benefit of gaining off me. Now she was quite direct about that because the truth for her was not to be diluted or polluted.
So today when this visitor pass printed out to capture this good Drivers License picture and God delivered features, i said “Look at this Mom…..thank you for resonating so I could register it all❣️😉
