News & Articles - Features
Dr Amina Mire
A Euro Vision of Beauty?
Monday 02 November 2009
Since women of colour began using skin whitening products in response to racial oppression in eighteenth century America, unlike legal slavery, the trade has grown not died. Worse still is that what was once used to mask women of African origin desperate to pass in a white society that often deemed their natural skin ugly and unacceptable, it now provides a Venetian mask for all women of colour. A recent Middle Eastern advertisement for Fair and Lovely Skin Cream features a young woman who is trying to gain work as a television presenter. When things weren't going to plan she had a revelation, '...the obstacle to obtaining my dream job was my skin'. The ad ends with the words, ‘Fair and Lovely... For total fairness'.
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Katrina Voss
Races, Faces, Sex and Science
Monday 26 October 2009
Science writer and former broadcast meteorologist Katrina Voss looks at why we don’t all look the same.
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Martha Yankey
Desperately Seeking Beauty
Monday 26 October 2009
Journalist Martha Yankey explores the painful history that’s left many women of colour hating the way they look.
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Help and Support
Monday 26 October 2009
Have you been affected by what you have seen in Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth?
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Bleach, Nip, Tuck: The White Beauty Myth
Sunday 25 October 2009
