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#Colourism
pat younge
tcmbigcheese
Can we pause on this @RochelleHumes Candice Braitwaite #colourism row and look at the big picture. Colourism is an issue in society but lets not START by tearing each other
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Nuzhat S. Siddiqi
guldaar
It's great that Unilever etc are doing away with fairness creams, but there's a catch. A thread: Commercial fairness creams have always been targeted towards middle, lower middle & lower
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Ameil J. Joseph (he/him)
ajesusjoseph
BIPOC was a strategic essentialism. It was used to address the issue of white claims of racism within the term 'racialized' as well as to disaggregate & put out front
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Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
CharlieBCuff
THREAD: The mixed race black convo comes up every few years and having spent a lot of time thinking about it my thoughts are as follows Underpinning this we HAVE
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chaotic vet student
_shzd
This girl is deffo not “asianfishing” but we should keep the term. E.g fox eye lifts are a thing but Asians experience racism for their eye shape. Plus the white
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Mobeen Hussain
amhuss27
Thread. Unilever evolves skin care portfolio to embrace a more inclusive vision of beauty, ending references to ‘whitening’, ‘lightening’ or ‘fairness’. https://www.unilever.com/news/press-releases/2020/unilever-evolves-skin-car
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Lala 🍒
lolagazellle
Why dark-skinned black girls like me aren't getting married | Life and style | The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/08/dark-skinned-black-girls-dont-get-married People love to argue with stats but essentially if
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SITHALE✍🏿
SithaleKgaogelo
THE HISTORY OF COLOURISM AND ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL AFTERMATH.[LONG THREAD] Conversations about past events such as apartheid and slavery seems irrelevant in this present time. I mean we cannot change the
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Estée Blu♍️🔮
EsteeBlu
So in September 2019, I decided to do a Masters degree in Music Business Management. My third degree after my BA & PGCE . I spent October 2019-August 2020 focusing
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Ruchika T - That Mask Looks Great On You!
rtulshyan
I’m annoyed working women feminists are not supposed to talk about their “love” lives because the biggest impact on my career is the decision I made 9 years ago. I
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Janine Francois
itsJaninebtw
*LONG THREAD* Really interesting to see people talk about mixed-raceness /colourism w/o any historical analysis that situates why some DSBW feel the way they do. Is this not generational? Class
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hardc0reSouma
“Pretty privilege” is this lazy analysis of colourism, featurism, transphobia, fatphobia, etc that dull people perpetuate as some sort of cursed gift there are people 10x more mesmerising and beautiful
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zovy
itszovy
I think the problem with this whole ‘should mixed people identify as black’ conversation is that it’s focused on the wrong thing. (A thread) The majority of the time the
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uglyluhan
It's unfortunate though somewhat inevitable that many Malaysians only hear about Dayang Senandong through controversy. It is a real folk tale, but not a particularly famous onehttps://twitter.com/ComicsByVieN/status/1273916451733123072
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(㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ) ◜✧。*゚ toki sad but it's okay
tokirokimoki
tw// racism, beauty standards etc.a thread of how white colonialism affected southern asian countries' beauty standards: started because of this tweet by @/telanonwills DISCLAIMER: the knowledge i present to you
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A Black Woman 🇿🇦 🇿🇦
SneKhumaloSA
Pearl Thusi and her ilk are deliberately being obtuse on the colourism issue and the ignorance is annoying.Pearl refuses to acknowledge her lightskin privilege and I dont blame people for
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