Distinguished Diva Collective
Distinguished Diva is an online collective for women of color by women of color. Our aim is to connect women all over the world to a network of sharing and storytelling that adds texture and nuance to our experiences as women.
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Becoming my Mother, Becoming Myself
When I think of my own relationship with my mother, I think of who she was before she decided to have children and how what she dealt with poured into her relationship with her children. The behaviours she has that I do not like and that affected me are exactly what she received from her own mother as well as a direct influence of her surroundings in Nigeria and what being a woman in that period meant. I definitely know that no matter what, I am my mother’s child and that this means that I will share similar behaviours with her but to truly become myself and separate myself from her own traumas, I have to find myself and reconcile with the rejections that can exist in my own becoming.
