Season 1 wraps with the industry G.O.A.T Dr. Ronald Hall, Professor with the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. Tune into to hear more the term he coined -- the bleaching syndrome, skin tone and masculinity and how this all lad

The Whoopi Goldberg Effect

Mar 9th, 2021 31m 5s

This week I connect with Dr. Midge Wilson, from Chicago's DePaul University. Dr. Wilson takes us through her journey on studying the topic of colorism from the lens of beauty standards, the limitations she's faced as a white woman in this field

A Dark Horse in Low Light

Feb 23rd, 2021 43m 1s

This week's guest is Dr. Lorna Roth, a Distinguished Professor Emerita, Communication Studies (that is a big deal y'all) from Concordia University. Dr. Roth takes us on her path to becoming a celebrated researcher in the skin tone landscape. He

The 400 Million Dollar Indian Market

Feb 9th, 2021 38m 17s

This episode features Dr. Neha Mishra, an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean in Jindal Global Law School in India. She takes us through the ways we've internalized skin tone discrimination as a regular norm through the two stratas of shadei

The sun, our enemy?

Jan 26th, 2021 38m 50s

In this episode, I talk with author, journalist and professor Kamal Al-Solaylee about his book, Brown. We discuss the courage and years it can take to write about our own experiences, the pigmentocracy, and what being brown means in the world

Unfair & Lovely

Dec 30th, 2020 34m 12s

The first episode of The Shadeism Series features V. T. Nayani (9'knee, she/her), a Toronto based Tamil filmmaker, artist, and producer. This episode explores her ground breaking documentarian work on shadeism and skin tone discrimination. We

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