#colorism and beauty standards

[colorism-project]

Chromatic Realities: Exploring Colorism and Gendered Consumption Practices Among Indian Women 

Join Ms. Naeema Neefa Neerattiparambil for a deep dive discussion titled “Chromatic Realities: Exploring Colorism and Gendered Consumption Practices Among Indian Women” at the virtual Ronald  E. Hall Conference on Colorism taking place on August 22, 2024 and August 23, 2024. Register today:  Ronald E. Hall Conference on Colorism     Deep Dive Discussion: 3-C Session: Chromatic Realities:…

[collophora]

Do yourself a favor and go read the entire fanfic work of @fanfoolishness

(In order: Under sun and shade, Blind Side, and Breathless (patching up is one of my fav too, I just had no cool sketch idea for it)

[hoefortoes1]

I hate it when people say skin whitening treatments and fake tanning are "two sides of the same coin." The South-Asian obsession with fair skin is rooted in British colonialism. The urge to get skin whitening treatments comes from a place of self-loathing and an inferiority complex. Meanwhile, people who get fake tans just want to feel exotic.

[koipalm]

king of hearts

[fraternum-momentum]

Dark eyes are so so pretty

🕯🕯🌀🌀🌀🔮🔮🪄YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO BOBA EYES PROPAGANDA RAHHHH🌀🌀🌀🕯🕯🔮🔮🪄🪄

[idontmindifuforgetme]

literally insane fucking ask to send someone 😭 not arab but as an iranian it saddens me that we have such high rates of plastic surgery and nose jobs etc bc the world has told us that we have to look “white” to look beautiful….. i don’t…. direct hatred towards the people who get those surgeries? in weird and misogynistic ways? skill issue on anons part tbh

misogyny is absolutely born from criticizing women for being pressured to fit certain beauty standards, as opposed to critiquing the very institution that made them do that to begin with. and even if a woman chooses to get plastic surgery I’m not gonna say I “hate it” or that I “wanna throw up in my mouth about it.” what kind of attitude is that

[thebroccolination]

SO, COLORISM

I can’t imagine any lonelier feeling than being a darker-skinned actor who has to deal with not only media outlets bleaching their skin lighter in photos and videos to fit into a colorist beauty standard—but their own fans doing it, too.

It happens to so many Thai celebrities, but speaking just as a KristSingto fan, it’s so profoundly disappointing to see people claiming to love Singto who don’t love him as he is. I’ve been a fan for four years and every single time he does anything, his hashtag is flooded with photos and fanart that portray him as whiter than I am.

He’s been famous for almost a decade. Can you imagine what it’s done to him? He probably grew up hearing plenty about darker skin, explicit and subtextual, and then all of it got exponentially louder and more targeted at him specifically.

As far as I know, he’s never whitened his own skin, but there are actors who do, and I can’t imagine the pressure they’re under to make that choice.

I’ve said plenty about this on Twitter for years, but colorism is so entrenched everywhere in the world that most people just kind of shrug or agree it’s a shame and keep retweeting and engaging with those bleached photos, videos, and fanart.

I know that colorism is insidious, and it’ll take more than ignoring colorist practices to dismantle it, but withholding engagement is a very easy, almost passive way to help. Find photos that represent Singto and other darker-skinned actors as they are and engage only with them. It’ll show the bleach enthusiasts they won’t get engagement from people unless they portray these people authentically.

Because even if people don’t care how Singto feels, doctored media like that sends an implicit, poisonous message to all darker-skinned people, and that’s really what I can’t get over. Colorism, racism, most isms have no actual justification to exist—that’s what makes them wrong. And acting like they’ll go away naturally or that someone else will take care of the problem just allows them to thrive.

[i23432i]

Phrases I thought where ways to describe POCs that apparently aren't?? for some reason???:

Tall, Dark, and Handsome: genuinely thought this was about tall black men and would consistently be enraged when someone described as this would be drawn as a white guy

Almond Eyes: I thought this was a way to describe (specially Chinese) Asians, since in older Chinese art their eyes where always the shape of almonds. less filled with rage, more confused why some random white person is in place of mx. almond eyes

Button Nose: I thought this meant having a larger, rounder nose (a common trait in black communities) and genuinely would get upset when someone is giving themselves a "button nose" and then literally just making it disappear into the shadow relm

Bushy Haired: I feel this this is sort of self-explanatory, I just thought all those "bushy haired" girls in books where just black and either a) couldn't be bothered to put it into a braided style (from what I know those take fucking hours, so all power to ya girls) or b) where letting their natural hair breathe (cause, again from what I know, that's pretty important to hair health)

Tanned: I have no excuse for this one, really. I grew up in a predominantly Mexican area, and there you where either Latino or paler than paper and turn lobster red in the sun. so, therefore, tanned = latin-american of some kind

Needless to say, I did not understand why POCs where upset about lack in representation until much later in life

[nekupilled]

Why do white writers make POC characters that are beautiful and ‘exceptional’ be so because they have white features…

[melanin-melanina]

[colorism-project]

Social Media and Colorism

Join Dr. Lena Sharda for a presentation titled “Social Media and Colorism” at the virtual Ronald  E. Hall Conference on Colorism taking place on August 22, 2024 and August 23, 2024. Register today:  Ronald E. Hall Conference on Colorism     Deep Dive Discussion: 3-B Session: Social Media and Colorism Date: Friday, August 23, 2024 Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. CST Dr. Lena…

[sleepynegress]

👆🏽🫖☕

#meghanmarkle #taylorrussell #fkatwigs #zaweashton #priyankachopra

Will write more later.

[hoefortoes1]

I will start believing colorism is ending in Pakistan when facial product advertisements start casting dark-skinned actresses. I'm so sick of people pretending that changing the name of "Fair of Lovely" to "Glow and Lovely" actually made a difference.

[c6jpg]

https://www.tumblr.com/zeichannnnn/755317359918645248/they-arent-as-culturally-revolutionary-as-genshin?source=share

nah they're just colorist you don't have to blame the government for everything you know

[franollie]

i think its really weird that we somehow still haven’t figured out how to compliment one feature without tearing down others in the process. it’s really not that hard

[cosmos-tent]

DUDES DUDES WHY THE FUCK DID OUR YEARBOOK PHOTO AIRBRUSH AND WHITEWASH US WE ARE 2 WHOLE SHADES LIGHTER IN THAT BITCH AND THEY MADE OUR NOSE THINNER