Black Girl Magic Fact: Kisha ‘KB’ Bowles
Kisha ‘KB’ Bowles met Selina ‘Pennie’ Brown playing kickball, and joined her on the black cowboy party circuit before becoming a founding member of the Cowgirls of Color. Her late mother loved the Bill Pickett Rodeo, and went every year. Bowles finally joined her, and recalls seeing just a few women compete. “I remember thinking I would love to do that one day. I never told anyone,” she says.
Four years later, Bowles made her rodeo debut. “Isn’t that something?” she says in awe. “When I ride, it’s like my mom’s with me. Her spirit is alive and well.” On Mother’s Day, Bowles bought her second horse and named her Tissy in honor of her mum. “Tissy reminds me of myself. She can be calm or really hyper. She is teaching me patience.”
Bowles connects the mastery of riding with the mastery of self. “When I first started, I was considered the weakest rider and almost didn’t make the team,”she reveals. “It didn’t happen naturally. I had to work, but as time went on, I went from the bottom to the top. I am providing hope and inspiration for little brown girls that look like me.”
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