Colourism Stories

shower thoughts, ⤍| this refers to the random thoughts or ideas that you get while carrying out a routine task, such as showering, it's like some crazy revelation or an epiphany. :･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ Her mind is a complex one. Reign Lancaster is a seventeen-year-old girl who religiously goes through each day with a strategy and a daily speech. She is over society and its unrealistic beauty standards and episodes of over-sexualization and cat-calling. She is all about comfort and self-reliance, and well...Doritos. Her life is like everyone else's that falls and rises because of the pressures of the world and her goals. But she is determined not to let it get to her...but is she trying hard enough? Her world turned upside down when she meets a guy named Dylan where she breaks all her own rules. With parents like hers, she makes an extra effort to stand out and be true to herself. Is this upside-down good or bad? ➵➵➵➵➵➵ •This book is also known as We All Fall Apart. •Please be reminded of the title...lol •Word count: (over 55,000 words) Started: May|2020 Finished: October|5|2020 Teaser Sequel: April|19|2021 Highest Rankings: ⚜️101- society- Oct 11-12🏆 2020 ⚜️#1-shower thoughts- July 17-19 ⚜️#1-colourism -Feb 11🏆 2021 ⚜️restaurant # 7- June 1🏆 2021 ⚜️realistic# 3- June 10-12🏆 2021 1k- October 19/2020 2k- June 28/ 2021 3K- June 26/2022 TW⚠️: mentions depression, low self-esteem, personal struggles, abuse etc.

Dark. Unstoppable. Gone before you're ready. She sat on those university stairs like she belonged to no one and nothing, dark-eyed, unhurried, completely unbothered by the boy who couldn't stop looking at her. He was everything Karachi admired. She was everything Karachi overlooked. Zayan Ahmed had never met a girl who didn't notice him. Priya Mehra had spent her whole life being noticed for the wrong reasons. What began as late-night Nokia messages and stolen hours in old Saddar bookshops slowly became the most real thing either of them had ever felt. This is not a simple love story. Between them stands religion, family, and the impossible expectations of a world that loves its boundaries more than it loves its people. One of them always knew it couldn't last. The other loved too hard to care. A Girl Like Monsoon is a story about loving someone the world says you shouldn't and the devastating, beautiful, life-changing cost of doing it anyway. Some love stories leave you. Some leave a mark. This one did both.

A best friend can be anyone. They could be the person to help you when you're down, the person who's there to pick you up when you need support. They could be the person who'd end up saving your life. Or taking it away. So then the question is, how far would you go to find them? Even if it means putting yourself, and everything you know in danger?

She felt his warm palm on her wrist and at once she was facing him. Without warning, his lips engulfed hers, setting her on fire just like she did him. His lips were warm and soft and she revelled in it as she shut her eyes, her body instantly warming up to the kiss. She wrapped her arms around him, marvelling at how their bodies fit perfectly together. It felt so good, like her head was rotating. Nothing else mattered. Just the two of them. This was all she needed. Someone who accepted her for her. Her flaws, her beauty, herself, hook line and sinker. She withdrew reluctantly, angry she had to stop the kiss and also afraid someone had seen them. As she stared into his eager eyes, she knew she loved him but she couldn't help thinking she was doing the wrong thing. She loved him, but it wasn't fair to his girl. She could do anything, run, apologise, but she followed her heart. She drew him back and continued the kiss. A Nigerian themed story bound to leave you yearning for the next chapter.

based on racism - Jace is an outsider. He has foster parents of the black culture, but he's white. Set in 1998, racism is a heavy topic that began 100 years ago, but what is it really like to be on both sides of a racist comment? And what about other mixed cultures? Education in a school full of American-white culture, and a small percentage of African-black, Jace has never discovered a real mixed race person. Hiding down at a nursery, he comes across a lady of mixed culture but finding this person caused a heart beat to flutter. Jace learns the struggle of her life on the other side of town and battles to solve the breaking relation of diversity. Living in a town of war, he finds it hard it to keep that heart-beat, but will it all end with loving hugs or flowers on a grave? Please do not take offence by any language used throughout this story.

Basically why I decided to do this🧚🏿‍♀️

❝i see the pain they bare, where is the hope they long for does anybody out there care?❞

Why do humans have different skin colours? Why are some people darker, some lighter, and why does such a visible difference exist in the first place? The answer begins long before modern societies, borders, religions, or racial categories. It begins in Africa, with the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens. As humans migrated across the world, they encountered different environments and different levels of ultraviolet radiation. Over countless generations, natural selection, genetics, migration, population history, and other factors helped shape the diversity of human pigmentation we see today. But somewhere along the way, a biological difference became something more. Skin colour became connected to identity, race, social status, beauty, discrimination, and ideas of superiority and inferiority. But was that hierarchy ever written into human biology? This book explores the science behind human skin colour, the evolutionary journey of our species, the genetics of human diversity, and the historical processes that transformed biological differences into social categories. It also asks a deeper question: If our differences are part of the same evolutionary story, why should one human being ever be considered worth more than another? Our skin colours may tell different stories about our ancestors. But they do not determine our worth. Biological variation came first. Human hierarchy came later.

Colourism: Discrimination based on skin color, also known as colorism or shadeism, is a form of prejudice or discriminationin which people are treated differently based on the social meanings attached to skin color. This article talks about colourism in the community and focuses on Africa. The meed to bleach your skin and the want to be accepted. Originally from: TheFeministPaper. Credit to: Jendella Benson, Ng'endo Mukii and TheFeministPaper (Instagram) , Black Girls Being.

When Aïda Völlenhoven and Aden van den Heever meet each other again, after twelve long years, old wounds will resurface. But what kept the once inseparable duo apart for so long? Most importantly will the distance between them be eliminated? Join me and find out.

වර්ණ වෙනස් වුණත්, මනුෂ්‍යත්වය එකමයි. අප්‍රිකාවේ උණුසුම් හිරු යටින් ඇරඹුණු අපේ දිගු ගමනේ, කාලයත් පරිසරයත් සමඟ අපේ සමේ වර්ණ වෙනස් වුණා. අපි ඒ වෙනස්කම් දැක්කා. ඒවාට නම් දුන්නා. සීමා හැදුවා. සමහර විට ඒ සීමා අතර මිනිසුන් උසස් කළා, තවත් මිනිසුන් පහත් කළා. නමුත් සමේ වර්ණයට උසස්කමක් තිබුණේ නැහැ. එය හුදෙක් අපේ පරිණාමයේ මතකයක්. අපි වෙනස් වර්ණවලින් පෙනුණත්, අපේ මුතුන් මිත්තන්ගේ ගමන අපි හැමෝවම එකම කතාවකට බැඳ තබනවා. මේ අපේ වර්ණවල කතාවයි. මේ අපේ ඉතිහාසයේ කතාවයි. මේ අපේ මනුෂ්‍යත්වයේ කතාවයි. THE COLOURS OF HUMANITY 🌍

We urge you to send your stories, to share your experiences of colourism/shadism and body shaming. Let's educate those who don't know that these forms of discrimination still happen. Here at TheseLayers, we use your stories to stitch perfectly, imperfect layers. Cover illustration by Stephanie Deangelis.

Mayra Ricardo is the hottest girl at Shawnee High School. She seems to have a charm that attracts all the boys to her except Jose, who she has been crushing on for a long time. When Mayra's cousin, Isis, starts to live with them and attend the same school as Mayra, her presence awakens the hidden feelings in Jose and causes a stir in their family. Find out what happens in this battle for love, family and bond.

Stories from you to the world. Covers illustration by Stephanie Deangelis.

"She is a mystery, She is a beauty, Who fuels envy, She is love, She is a blessing from above, She is a Black Woman" ~Truth Nostalgia (A Black Woman)

This is an attempt at a contemporary, UK based adaptation of Nina Simone's Four Women and a comment upon privilege and marginalisation. The story follows four British women of colour, four non white women across seven weeks that will prove to be fairly pivotal in their journeys of self discovery and ultimately a lesson in how we are so much easier to rule when we are divided.