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Colour Me Bright Red, Emerald Green, Orange, and Pink

Colour Me Bright Red, Emerald Green, Orange, and Pink

by DISB | Aug 5, 2013 | Beauty Ideals, Colourism Stories, Discrimination

By Sudha Menon | A Dark is Beautiful Campaigner If you have grown up in a dark brown skin, like I have, you have possible heard this sentence many times in your life: ” She is dark but smart”, ” She is not dark, just dusky. And, very...
Shah Rukh Khan, Let’s Be Fair

Shah Rukh Khan, Let’s Be Fair

by DISB | Jul 31, 2013 | Advertising, Beauty Ideals, Discrimination, Petition

By Pamposh Dhar | Dark is Beautiful campaigner We are bombarded by print ads and TV commercials all day long. So much so that we hardly pay heed to them any more. But when “King Khan” himself shows up on the TV screen in our home, we sit up and take notice. He is...
Fair & Handsome, Meet Dark & Confident

Fair & Handsome, Meet Dark & Confident

by DISB | Jul 28, 2013 | Colourism Stories, Discrimination

A chat with David Livingstone Sales pitches for fairness products suggest that a man needs to lighten up to get the job, to get the girl, to get more out of life. Twenty-nine year-old David Livingstone says that’s “hideous,” and in this interview with Dark is...
In 30 Seconds You Can Say NO to UNfair Advertising

In 30 Seconds You Can Say NO to UNfair Advertising

by DISB | Jul 22, 2013 | Advocacy, Discrimination, Petition

By The Dark is Beautiful Team.  “Fair and Handsome” and Shah Rukh Khan: We don’t want ZYADA; we’ve had ENOUGH of fairness products and “unfair” advertising.  #disbcampaign #darkisbeautiful In the new “Fair and Handsome” ad, Shah Rukh Khan tosses a tube of...
Being Dark Or Black Is NOT The Matter At All

Being Dark Or Black Is NOT The Matter At All

by DISB | May 26, 2013 | Beauty Ideals, Colourism Stories, Discrimination, Melanin, Prejudice, Skin Colour Bias

By Pooja | High School Student A Book Report on The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh   Kalla was a very smart boy. He was only 11 years old but he keeps saying that he is 17 or 18  or 19 years old. People would still believe him even when he say, “I am 20 years...
Moon Flowers

Moon Flowers

by DISB | Apr 12, 2013 | Beauty Ideals, Colourism Stories, Dark Skin, Discrimination, Prejudice

Zippora Madhukar, of Zippora Madhukar Photography, has been a long time member and resource person for WOW. She compiled a photo-story last year for the Dark is Beautiful campaign that was first published in the online news blog, The Weekend Leader, under the title...
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