#shadism

It's very common. Unilever isn't alone. All these stuff subtly are affecting our psychology and making us racists even for our own people. If this stuff and this mentality aren't assessed and countered, crimes against humanity will continue to happen. If not physical but at least mental.

“These are all dark-skinned actors playing Africans, and I feel like it would have just been off to see me as a bi-racial American with a Nigerian accent just pretending that I’m the same color as everyone else in the movie,” Stenberg said. “That was really challenging, to make that decision, but I have no regrets. I recognize 100 percent that there are spaces that I should not take up and when I do take up a space it’s because I’ve thought really, really critically about it and I’ve consulted people I really trust and it feels right.”

sharanguru: “Karupee” “Yaen ivala karruthutta?” “Because I fucking can and I look like chocolate.” Which is the response I should have given Tamil Aunties every time I came back from vacation. I was truly always afraid of getting “too dark” or “too roasted” when I went out in the sun or went on vacation. I was afraid my family or relatives/friends were going to make me feel like I was less because the sun blessed me with more melanin. However there was always one person that made me appreciate my skin more and made me love getting darker. Thank you to my cousin and self love inspo @thurka. Thank you for always standing up to shadeism and explaining to me that being dark skin is just as beautiful as being lightskin. Thank you for telling me that it’s okay if some parts are darker than other parts of my body. Thank you for tanning and getting so excited over getting 6 shades darker when we would go on vacation. Thank you for being my number one advocate for my own skin that I didn’t believe in. If it wasn’t for your self love, I wouldn’t have mine today ❤ P.S thank you to my love @tristannu for making me feel like fine chocolate as always 😘😘😘 📸 @tristanuu

no shade to lighter skinned people (no pun intended either) but we don’t need more european features. we don’t need more aishwaryas. what we need is all shades of brown skin, dark brown eyes, plump limps, hooked noses, thick eyebrows. for dark-skinned indians to feel beautiful, to finally look at a model and think, “yes, she makes me feel beautiful.”