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The Pigment Nation is a project started to bring together people of various ethnicities and skin tones and celebrate our differences, create conversations around the good and bad experiences in life and find solutions to the problem of inequality.

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As part of our exploration into the perspectives o

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As a brown person, the phrase ‘𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳’ annoys me.⁣
There’s something about being put in a box. Why!! Also, maybe because it sounds too similar to ‘person of interest’ which is a negative thing.⁣
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If you have to, call me ‘𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫’.⁣
The colour of my skin (no matter what is it), is my identity. It defines how I look on the outside, and adds colour to the world. I should not have to feel like i am a suspect because of it.⁣
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When I walk into a store, stand in the security check line at the airport, hang out at the park, stand at the bus stop, shop for cosmetics or do anything at all - the same things that you do, stop looking at me that way!⁣
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Thought:⁣
Would the opposite of ‘person with colour’ be ‘person without colour’? 😆⁣
Is that an appropriate term to use for someone who doesn’t appreciate a world where people of many skin tones exist equally? So many questions!⁣
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How would you describe yourself and want others to describe you?⁣
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#⁣colourism #darkisbeautiful #thepigmentnation #shalomiext #colorism #skincolourdoesntmatter #skincolourbias #skincolourbias #personwithcolour

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