Being a Queer Female Founder w/ Natalie White
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Who is Natalie White and how did she start Moolah Kicks?
Hey, y'all. Welcome back to Made It Out. Today, I'm here with the owner and founder of Moolah Kicks, Natalie White. Thank you for having me. Of course. Thanks for being here. I'm excited. You're such a fun energy.
Oh, good. You're like, let's go. Oh, yeah. Hopefully, it's going through on the tape, too, for everyone at home. She brought hats, basketballs. We're like outfitted here. And I would have brought shoes for the wall had I known that this was, you know, we had this much of a setup here. Shelf space. Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, I want to get into everything. There's so much to cover. But I want to start with, like, who are you? Where do you come from? What's your upbringing? Start there.
Amazing. So my name's Natalie. I'm the founder of Moolah Kicks, as you said. I'm from New York City originally, so it was really nice to come in to record this. I grew up playing basketball my entire life here. I played on some of the top AAU teams in the country. New Heights, Team Prince, Exodus. I went to Fieldston High School in the Bronx. Played varsity there. I went to Boston College where I studied finance and art. I played club ball. I managed the team. And I started Moolah Kicks during my senior year there at BC.
Wow.
Okay. Can we talk about your queer journey a little bit? Sure.
What does that look like?
I think I really came into my own when I was in college, when I was a freshman in college. I lived in an all-girls dorm at VC, and the girl in the room directly next to me, Halloween night, never forget, we're just getting ready. Halloween night is so good. Halloween night. I had thought about it in the past, but I wasn't that aware of it. Okay. And then Halloween night, she kissed me when we were getting ready, and it like, holy shit, it just changed my world. Wow. Wow. Did it freak you out? I was floored. I was floored. I thought about that for months. The next day, I told all my friends, oh my God, she kissed me. I can't stop thinking about it. Oh my God, oh my God. And then in baby gay fashion of me, I Snapchat.
Okay, guys, this is different. This is 2016. You're a freshman at BC. I Snapchat message her months later saying, why did you kiss me? Okay. Crazy story to open up with. But then I was like, wait, wait, I didn't mean that. And I like ran over. I'm much better in person than I am online. I went right on, like knocked on her door and like we ironed that out. And what did she say? Like, was she out? What was going on? She was very out and by. Okay. And yeah, like I knocked on her door and we hooked up. And that was like amazing. Yeah. Okay, but how did you, like, were your parents okay with this? Were you freaked out? Yeah.
How did Natalie discover and come to terms with her queer identity in college?
How did you feel? I told, I just, I'm very open. So, like, immediately I told all my high school friends, right? I told all my high school friends, told all my college friends. And I remember telling my high school friends. I went to a very liberal high school, Fieldston. I told, I called them and I was like, you're never going to guess what happened. Like, I kissed this woman and I have, like, a fat crush on her. And I'm gay. And they were like, yeah, you've been gay since middle school. And I was like, wait, what do you mean? And they were like, oh, well, you used to have a crush on Annie. Remember that? And I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that. And they're like, yeah. And then this person was like, oh, yeah.
Did you forget her trauma block? No, I think I, like, fully forgot. Oh, my God. And then I—because I, like, had a long-term boyfriend in high school for a couple years. And, like, no, I did— I think I just... When you're growing up sometimes, as so silly as it sounds, you, like, don't realize that that makes you gay. So, like, I openly had crushes on so many women and, like, didn't put together that I was gay somehow until... I had that kiss my freshman year.
Because, like, you don't have the languaging and you don't have the representation to be like, oh, two girls kiss. Lesbian.
Yeah. But I was just, I was always very open about it. Like, with my friends and with my family, like, I was very open about it.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Natalie White and how did she start Moolah Kicks?
0:00–3:03
2
How did Natalie discover and come to terms with her queer identity in college?
3:03–17:31
3
How has the women's basketball landscape changed since 2016 and why does it matter?
17:31–29:39
4
Why did Natalie found a women-first basketball shoe brand and what problem does it solve?
29:39–41:53