My Hair Is Appealing to Me
Chantrice Thomas, Gretna, LA Being an American woman with brown skin, I have had my ups and downs with people their opinions about the texture...
Trapped Brown Girl with Red Blood
Michele George, Author, Columbus, OH. The struggle of being born in a brown body is heavy. Society treats ‘us’ as though we choose to have...
Yes, those boys are my brothers.
Julia Guerra, Austin, TX. My brothers are very important figures in my life. They were born to a white mom and a white dad. They...
I am the “Indian Looking” girl
Manvir Toor, Sanger, CA. I attended a concert last Sunday, and a woman tried to get infront of me in the line to buy T-shirts....
I don’t speak Spanish, just Russian
Michelle Del Pin, Brooklyn, NY. I can’t even tell you how many times people have come up to me and started speaking Spanish. Sometimes it...
Intelligent despite assumptions, Yes I can!
Brianna Jenkins, Fauquier LFCC, VA People were often confused by my large vocabulary especially when I was younger. It was almost like a brown skin...
Brown dad. I never felt white.
Terri Kimmel, Corpus Christi, TX My dad had jet black hair and tawny olive skin. His mother was Sicilian and his father had an English...
The one with the brown skin.
Jeremy Martin, Cincinnati, OH. My 7-year-old daughter about the only African American girl on her cheer team. How do we move past skin color as...
My Mother Hated My Dark Skin
Mike Elliott Alexandria, VA My mother was brown. Her skin a shade so perfect until the day she died she was “Puddin” to her family...
Brown skin isn’t a measure of my intelligence
Octavia, Dallas, TX. I have been to over forty six job interviews since I moved to Dallas. There is a look that white people give...
My brown skin is beautiful okay?
Vanessa Guzman, Corona, CA. I am a Mexican women who has brown skin and all my life I was always self conscious about it because...
You’re cool for a brown chick.
Shawdee Naimy, Redwood City, CA. Growing up in Tennessee was interesting.
Brown skin, speaks spanish, ethnically white
Marie Recine, Mountain View, CA. When I’m with Latinos, people think I’m Mexican. When I’m with whites, people think I’m white or mixed. When I’m...
I’m just American, not African American.
Lottie MSF, St. Louis, MO. Born in LA, raised in Compton, became an adult in Bay Area, relocated to MO. Loved by entrepreneur/homemaker grandparents. Raised...
