Using personal anecdote about the author’s experiences as a Black woman in a predominately white music scene in Cleveland, Ohio as well as reflections of the author’s time around her extended family in rural Alabama, this paper explores ideas of belonging, the complication of space, and the act of noticing. By examining the complicated nature of these two very different spaces, the author asks questions of what it means to belong, especially when one is an “other”, what is gained or lost with belonging, and how one understands themselves in space through noticing. This piece serves to be in dialogue with different thinkers on these themes, including Sara Ahmed’s ideas around hypervisibility and the orientation of bodies, Audre Lorde’s idea of Black women being “watchers”, and Dionne Brand’s reflections on the topic of belonging in A Map to the Door of No Return. Through the examination of these experiences, the piece concludes by coming to new understandings of belonging and ponders the possibilities that can come from acknowledging the act of noticing.