About

Her story

I have always walked into spaces to create what does not yet exist by being myself. I cannot tell my story without telling the stories of those I love, which is the foundation of To Build Her Home. My Indian Hindu mother, Roumila, and my African Catholic father, Elvis, broke generational trauma by marrying outside of traditional norms. They chose love, and I was born in unity.

But I have also always faced exclusion. Truthfully, it is my deepest wound, one that can bring me to tears in a way where I cannot hide, even in front of everything I know I am. The root of exclusion began in the war of displacement, not knowing where home truly is. This is a story that lives deep in my family lineage. Being African and Indian is not enough to know where you are truly from when you were born on an island called Mauritius. Today, Mauritian people are descendants of European settlers (predominantly French), African slaves and Creoles, Chinese traders, and Indian labourers.

The idea of fitting in was all I wanted in spaces that were not designed for me, because I was not “Black enough,” “Brown enough,” or simply enough. Yet when I return to the foundation of how my parents created what does not yet exist by being the first to be themselves and choosing each other, there is heart in knowing that connection can be created by telling stories of the people we love. This has become the foundation of To Build Her Home.