A webinar on 4 December will focus on “Decolonizing beauty: mission, gender, racism, and health in the skin-whitening pandemic
From the World Council of Churches:
A conversation, offered via a panel discussion, will explore the roots of pressuring women from racialized communities to meet the standards of beauty defined by whiteness and white supremacism, and the effects of such pressure to their health, in church and society.
The skin whitening industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that is growing on the back of the huge business it is doing in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, and the Pacific. This industry intentionally targets African, Asian, and Indigenous descent women—women who naturally have higher amounts of melanin. According to a study by CNN, the Asia-Pacific region appears to be the most lucrative for this industry.
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