I Am Who I Say I Am
I Am Who I Say I Am
![Brown Sugar Beauty: Renouncing Internalized Colorism](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea310bd222d7f2447a8f795/1597430689018-347DRBZOG25CDJNALSAM/pexels-pixabay-162786.jpg)
Brown Sugar Beauty: Renouncing Internalized Colorism
I think, for the majority of my childhood, I wanted to be white.
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The Matter With My Skin
The thing about Vietnam is that with colonialism by both China and France, and it’s proximity to South-East Asia, Vietnamese people are extremely diverse in physical appearances.
![Colorism: An Adoptee Perspective](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea310bd222d7f2447a8f795/1597430281069-OQ8NS3NJ2T5PF9TWBTCP/pexels-abby-chung-1106468.jpg)
Colorism: An Adoptee Perspective
In the fall term of my junior year in college, I studied abroad through a language-intensive program in Nanjing, China.
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We Just All Want To Fit In, Right?
From the moment we were born into this world, there were a set of rules we had to follow. Those rules decided how we should act, speak, and behave.