Skincoloured

Aug 05, 2008 08:54

Gacked from minisinoo who, in turn, got it from ninamonkey



Skin Coloured is intended to be a collaborative, visual exploration of what it is to be non-white in a white culture. Make-up, plasters and tights - even when they’re marked “flesh-coloured" - are not the colour of skin that isn’t white. And whilst white women may have trouble matching these items to their skin, for women who don’t class themselves as white, this inconvenience is symptomatic of a wider problem.
To help illustrate this problem, therefore, Skin Coloured is looking for submissions. Send us photographs that illustrate the inadequacy of provisions for non-white people, and we’ll post them on the blog, and hopefully both those submitting, and those who’re here to learn, will gain something from it.
Further information can be found here. Please help us by reposting this.

This project makes me want to take a good look at the grocery shelves. Granted, I think most things I've seen tend to write "light" instead of "normal" skin colour. I remember way back in elementary school, one of my classmates who was of East African descent, commenting on the inappropriateness of the the "flesh" coloured pencil-crayon. Am very glad things have changed at least in my neck of the woods.

I think.

friends, grab-bag, digital world

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