Tag: skin colour

Living in South Africa, racism is at the centre of our history and day to day experiences. We hope that currently, the colour of our skin won’t affect how we are treated but, it’s in all our faces, constantly, even in spaces where your merit should be enough but here, we are again, being white and being wrong is sneezed at but being black and being wrong is punishable by ‘death’.

For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and anti-racist thinkers and activists.