It’s Tuesday. That means that once again, it’s time to listen to Meghan of Montecito talk about herself on her new podcast Archetypes. This week, to pad out the hour, Meghan brings in Mariah Carey to talk about the ‘complexities’ surrounding the word diva.
Oh great, more words that Meghan doesn’t like! Steerpike was starting to think she had run out of so-called ‘labels’. During the episode, pop star Mariah opened up about the difficulties she faced growing up, saying (in a slightly garbled confessional tone): ‘I didn’t fit in, it would be more of the black area of town, or then you could be where my mom chose to live, where the more white neighbourhoods, and I didn’t fit in anywhere at all.’
Presumably worried that Mariah may out-trauma her, Me-again brought the conversation back to her struggles, telling Mariah:
If there’s any time in my life that it’s been more focused on my race, it’s only once I started dating my husband… Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a black woman, because up until then I had been treated like a mixed woman and things really shifted.
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