The Shape of Belonging – Part 1

Tiny Tales with Big Truths

The Shape of Belonging - Part 1

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What does belonging feel like before we have the language to explain it?

In this first part of The Shape of Belonging, Becky Siame begins with a childhood memory: a five-year-old girl standing in a school choir, visibly different, joyfully expressive, and already learning what it means to take up space in a room that has not quite made sense of her yet.

Through story, reflection, and spoken-word performance, this episode opens the doorway into identity, adoption, race, voice, and the quiet scripts that begin shaping us long before we know they are there.

This is not just a story about childhood. It is a story about the body’s first questions:

Where do I belong?
Who sees me?
What happens when my presence disrupts the shape of the room?