I was born in the Netherlands, and I lived there in my childhood before moving to Curaçao as a teenager. After living in Britain for twenty-five years, I now live in Sweden with my longterm partner Anders. I come from a mixed British-Caribbean heritage, with a British mother and a father from Curaçao (or as they would say "dushi korsou" which translates roughly as "beautiful Curaçao), and I am extremely proud of my both my heritages, often saying I am "an English rose with Caribbean roots". I