turning our gaze to the women who pass us by

meet deneita watson

Postal worker DeNeita Watson is most likely to be spotted on the road — her daily 9-mile walking route through Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, to be exact. After growing up with a single mother in South Carolina and having not one, but two children straight out of high school, she moved to New York over ten years ago to take advantage of her familial support system in the city and leave behind memories of a destructive relationship. In this conversation, DeNeita talks to us about early motherhood, the physical ramifications of her job, and how her fashion sense has evolved over the years.

“When I moved up here, it took me a while to be in a relationship with anybody. I wanted to get to know myself a little bit more — I went through a lot with my two older kids' father. Mentally, physically, emotionally. You don't want to put yourself in another situation like that. And you're already broken, so you don't want to put that hurt on someone else before fully having healed.”

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