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This is Tanvi. \u201cThe first time I really became conscious of my skin color as being different from certain other people\u2019s was when I was a little kid in Russia, my family was there for a couple of years for my dad\u2019s work, and I remember drawing princesses like little girls do, and I was using a brown crayon to color mine in, and these other little Russian girls that I was going to school with were baffled by it. They asked me, \u201cwhy are you coloring your princess\u2019 skin?\u201d and I said \u201cbecause she\u2019s brown, and they said, \u201coh we just leave ours white.\u201d It was then for the first time, Tanvi took note of the variations we all have in skin color. When Tanvi moved back to North India, she would often hear comments about her dark skin color and sometimes a few backhanded compliments such as, \u201cYou\u2019re a South Indian, so you\u2019re dark, but you\u2019re still pretty.\u201d She had several distant relatives recommend that she not go outside and consider ways to lighten her skin. She said, \u201cPart of my armor against this pressure to be lighter skin was that my identity wasn\u2019t tied to being pretty or feminine. I was very much a tomboy growing up, and so it didn\u2019t matter if people didn\u2019t think I was pretty, because I didn\u2019t think I needed to be. I was totally secure, not caring about the way I look. That gave me a lot of trouble accepting my femininity as I grew older. I don\u2019t think it was entirely a good thing.\u201d Looking back she says, she wishes she could tell her younger self, \u201cit\u2019s ok to embrace your femininity, think of yourself as a girl, think of yourself as pretty. People are going to tell you that you aren\u2019t, because of the color of your skin, but you don\u2019t need to disassociate yourself from your femininity to deal with that. You can embrace it and reject what they\u2019re saying.\u201d Tanvi recognized that such notions of tying lighter skin to femininity might not go away, and so she decided to \u201ctranscend them than try to change them.\u201d Thank you, Tanvi, for sharing your story with us!<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

This is Tanvi. \u201cThe first time I really became conscious of my skin color as being different from certain other people\u2019s was when I was…<\/p>\n

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