Dazey Lady Feature: Mama Cax - Redefining Disability
Mama Cax - Model, blogger, world traveler, public speaker, advocate, and amputee
I discovered Mama Cax through a podcast. She talked about all the amazing things she was doing despite her disability. Of course I had to stalk her Insta right after and was blown away by both her stunning feed, amazing style, and those drop dead gorgeous looks! She had grown quite a large following of over 135k people who just adore all she's doing in the fashion and female empowerment world. This gal survived cancer at a young age and lost one of her legs but she did not let that stop her from fulfilling her dreams. Mama Cax is a shining example of strength, elegance, and bold self expression. Through all this she has become a well known spokesperson for the intersectional feminist movement.
It was a long shot, but I figured I should reach out to see if she was interested in being featured on our Boss Blog. As luck would have it she was in LA speaking at Create & Cultivate, the ultimate girl boss conference! I was honored she took the time out of her busy schedule to stop by Biz Babez and shoot with me. We made the arrangements to shoot about a month in advance and I was anxiously awaiting for the day to arrive. I wanted to do something more special than our usual shoots at the office so that morning I ran to the fashion district and got some amazing vintage fabric for a backdrop. She arrived with a bag of awesome clothing and accessories, including this epic wig. She said, "I want to make this a fun and playful shoot!" I couldn't have agreed more! Mama Cax was such a cool and down to earth girl and we had an awesome time shooting and chatting. It's always the best when you meet a role model who is so nice and relatable.
Scroll around below to see the full shoot and read our interview! Mama Cax has some powerful words to share.
Mama Cax! First off why don’t you tell us a little about yourself. Where are you originally from and what's your full name?
I was born in Brooklyn but originally from Haiti. I spent most of my childhood in Haiti before moving back to New York in 2004. Mama Cax is my blogging name but most people call me Cax. I hold a B.A and M.A in International Studies but currently I'm a full time blogger and model.
You’re a lady of many talents and pursuits! How would you describe all you do?
It doesn’t quite fit in one box I guess. Aside from blogging and modeling, I often get to speak at events and conferences and the topic of discussion varies from intersectional feminism, body image and sex positivity. Ultimately I like to bring the perspective of a disabled woman to these platforms as we are often not present in those discussions.
I love hearing how you went from working in a government office to being a fashion icon and jet setting around the world. What prompted this change?What does fashion and self expression mean to you?
Totally unplanned. I always thought I’d end up working at a non profit organization. While I worked at the mayor’s office, outside of my 9-5 unbeknownst to me at the time, I was creating and nurturing a brand. From curating my Instagram feed to blogging about travels and body image, it all started paying off when I realized I could also get paid to create content for some of my favorite brands. I took a year off to get my masters, with the hope of getting a better paying position. Life doesn’t always workout the way we plan and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. After getting the opportunity to model on a Wet n Wild campaign it made sense to get represented by a modeling agency. Although me being where I am is completely by chance I also can’t deny the work I’ve put into it. People tend to organically label me and those labels often come with negative assumption. Fashion is one of many ways I let the world know who I am; risk taker, confident and creative.
Where are some of the places you have traveled? Which place is your absolute favorite and why?
I’ve studied in Europe and embarked on a solo backpacking trip in south east Asia. I’ve probably been to 35 countries across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. I’ve created great memories in every single one. If I absolutely have to pick one I’d say Iceland in the spring; Dreamy landscape, the weather is perfect and I love the 22 hour daylight. If I could pick more than one, I would have to add Haiti (because it will always be home), Ivory Coast, South Africa and Thailand. These countries have great food and vibrant cultures from the clothing to the music.
How would you say having survived cancer and an amputation at age 16 has shaped you as a person?
I think surviving cancer has pushed me to aim to enjoy the little victories in life and try to live it to the fullest. I always say that if I had a do-over there’s very little that I would change. These experiences have made me the person I am today, they have definitely made me appreciate my ability to adapt.
You have become a huge advocate in the body positivity movement. Why is this movement vital not only to you but all women?
I was unaware of the movement until I joined Instagram. For the longest time it had been a movement to get plus size women (mostly white) to accept their bodies but I’ve slowly watched it include other women (thankfully). I often use the term self-love, but to me it is meant to celebrate and elevate bodies that have been marginalized for so long; plus size, hairy, queer, trans, diverse skin shade and disabled. I think self perception has a strong link with self esteem therefore it affects so many aspects of our lives.
You have not let your disability get in the way of a very able, full, and colorful life. What does the word “disability” mean to you? After posting on our Insta-stories we had a few girls reach out who also wear prosthetics and are struggling to embrace and show them off the way you do. What’s one important message you have for these girls?
Disability is essentially an impairment, often times it affects us because our environment is not designed with us in mind. Having a disability has allowed me to find a new community and look at our world through a different lens, one that constantly pushes me to think of ways of making opportunities and spaces accessible. As an amputee, there isn’t one way of embracing yourself, for me it meant showing off my prosthetic leg but I understand that our society is not very accepting. To other girls who wear prosthetics I say do what makes you feel comfortable and work on loving yourself at your own pace.
As a blogger you’ve had a large following on Instagram for some time now, and are now signed with an agency as a model. You travel the world speaking at conferences like Create & Cultivate. What has all this attention and fame been like for you?! The good and bad.
Yes I’m currently represented by JAG Models. I’m always amazed by the messages from all over the world, especially from people whose stories are similar to mine. And always honored to get invited to speak at conferences and events, rubbing elbows with women who have inspired and continue to inspire me. From the likes and comments it’s easy to see the positive but it can be frightening and lonely. Once you’re considered a public figure, your picture can be shared on any platform where the comment sections are not always positive. Often times people equate popularity with “doing well” or “she’s made it” but my life is still very much like a roller coaster; I have great days, depressing ones, worries about not budgeting well and an almost non existent dating life.
What’s in store for the future of Mama Caxx?! Tell us all your wildest dreams :)
I’lll be on yet another exciting panel at South by South West (so follow me on Instagram for a chance to see me talk). I shot an amazing campaign for Tommy Hilfiger and that will be out in the Spring. Since I never imagined I’d be a full time blogger, model and speaker, It’s hard to allow myself to dream but some things on my list are:
- to help provide prosthetic limbs to children
- be featured in Vogue print magazine(I like the tangible stuff)
- and finally setting up a fund to provide scholarships for students with disabilities to study abroad
What does being a Dazey Lady mean to you?
Being confident, pursuing my dream, helping my community but most importantly encourage other young women to do the same.
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Degrees and intensity vary with age and better when young. Pre verbal trauma is not easily accessed by regular memory and much resides in the subconscious. Verbal conscious memory adds to the awareness of betrayal. Traumatic defeat occurs and remains with both verbal and Pre verbal. therefore, Circumcision related violent behavior is expressed from being a loss Returned.
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america’s circumcision is an adopted habit of socialized violence through Cultural Imperialism. the consequence is Cycles of Violence and Betrayal.4 These cycles reside in a sense of Betrayal causing a Transference of Aggression onto other persons in other acts of Betrayal. Besides the average person, The Transference of aggression is expressed socially between one group and nation against another. Transference is a deliberate choice and the substitute object is the genitals.
Transference is the deliberate displacement of one’s conflicting conflicts, Dependencies, And aggressions onto a substitute object.
Original FBI’s Criminal Profilers who led the attitudinal Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia know circumcision is a factor in some serial killings and partly responsible for America’s generalized asocial violence.
it’s inferred Robert Ressler, In an off the record comment when interviewed by Mothering Magazine’s web editor, Related even though the FBI realizes circumcision is a factor in violence. He explained they do not mentioned this because they would looked into raving lunatics and lose their jobs. Robert Ressler coined the term Serial Killer. Many have no clue, roughly the same as the parents who are Conned into the ritual. The Con is the jail Approach used to lure victims.
In norway, just one country that records the circumcision status of rapists, 2% of people are circumcised and commit more than 80% of their rapes. plus, Since 1991 pretty much all wars involved one circumcised country with some conflicts between both factions being circumcised. this includes all USA conflicts since Vietnam.
No other statistical records are kept regarding the and social percentile circumcision status of serial killers or rapists. and also, Over 50% of rapes in Sweden are perpetrated by the minority of men who remain in circumcising cultures. Circumcision status may factor highly in the USA’s highest of all other country’s incarceration rate to amount.
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In 1971 he was faced with another gangster and shot him dead. At this trial the psychiatrists who testified agreed he was a paranoid schizophrenic due to his Vietnam trauma and found simple due to insanity. He was incarcerated in Attica until 1975 for not returning from a week end furlough from his Psychiatric facility.
When released he became a mob hit man and wasn’t convicted in any trial. He was eventually arrested for passing a fake $100 dollar bill and pleaded guilty. He gotten a six year term and Judge Lawrence Pierce told him: "mr. Featherstone, The war in Vietnam has concluded, But Featherstone was still being circumcised.
Eventually Mickey Featherstone is discovered guilty of a murder he did not commit. Figuring he was set up by the mob he worked for he turned informant and went into Witness shielding.
Featherstone’s signature bank in some of his killings was Dismemberment. He along with his partners would cut them apart in a bath tub and dispose the remains. this has been somewhat common in their gang warfare.
Mickey Featherstone’s legacy of crime is because of his circumcision as an asocial Sacrificed Returned.
Phillip Markoff appeared 1986. His natural father is Jewish and mother Catholic. He had been circumcised. His parents separated and mother remarried. She and her husband occasionally attended Catholic Mass especially after the children grew.
If Phillip attended Catholic Catechism classes or other forms of religious instruction he would have learned the Christian Testament’s verses regarding circumcision. If he wondered, The Catholic nuns would in all likelihood responded with simply: because God was. kids are not taught by the American Catholic clergy any more that circumcision is a sacrifice at birth. Instead they merely emphasize the Crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus to christians is the Last Sacrifice. But big event lost to many males.
Markoff was a good student and a second year Sophomore in school of medicine. First Freshman year medical students take Gross Anatomy where they dissect protected human bodies. possibilities did he see? What did he uncover out? What did he comment on? What did he keep to himself?
As with a good number of, Markoff used Transference of aggression on women. using the using Craig’s List to meet victims. At first he entirely a violent robbery. But the naming of his second victim that he killed, Julissa Brisman, Was the stressor that drove him over the edge with loss of control. His third victim live through. Violence usually never decreases further indicating circumcision was the Stressor. Was circumcision named or discussed before he killed her?
The circumcision connection was apart made. The Jewish community was quick to retort. Their test was though his father was Jewish and his mother was not Jewish, Markoff weren’t Jewish. it’s because to be Jewish the mother must be Jewish. Thus they felt culturally exonerated and self glorification cared for in their Munchausen behavior. But Markoff was still circumcised.5
Finally after 3 previous attempts Markoff professional suicide in his jail cell and never went to trial. specialists debate why. Some say it was the final expression of selfishness in Narcissism and not about his x fianc whose pictures were all over the wall. and after that, In his blood he wrote her name as well as her affectionate nickname.
Not one psychologist equates this as embarrassment the same as why many women do not report their rape. some time he came to see himself as a deformed man. He could not handle it anymore with the information his future would surely have been.
Philip Markoff’s spree Craig’s List crimes are attributable to his circumcision as an asocial Sacrifice Returned.
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