If You Were Darker, You’d Be Pretty Too explores the dynamics of colorism and it’s effects on African-American women.
This series is a direct response to the double-edged compliment “you are pretty, for a Black girl”. Sometimes it takes seeing women who look like you being accepted and praised for being nothing less than who they are, especially by a world that you didn’t think it is capable of seeing your kind of beauty. It is important to stay true to yourself and your beliefs. Do not be the endorser of privilege society places on female beauty especially in our current political climate. If You Were Darker, You’d Be Pretty Too emerges as a study of the present social conditions and aspires to flip them on their heads. Unapologetically.
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