{"id":59761,"date":"2020-06-22T01:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59761"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T14:19:33","slug":"comfortable-in-my-own-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59761","title":{"rendered":"Comfortable in My Own Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/magazine\/january-2020\/comfortable-my-own-skin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Comfortable in My Own Skin<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sojourners<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2020<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jarofdollheads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Maika Llaneza<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New Orleans, Louisiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/magazine\/january-2020\/comfortable-my-own-skin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large_rectangle_crop\/public\/magazine\/untitled-1.png?itok=JlypvP9g\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>My theology says brown skin is beautiful, but my Pinterest page said otherwise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MY EXPERIENCE BEING color-shamed began when I was 5 years old and still living in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philippines<\/a>. My mom and aunts often told me that I could be mistaken for \u201cthe maid\u2019s daughter,\u201d due to my darker brown skin. Even at a young age, I understood it was intended as an insult.<\/p>\n<p>As I grew up, billboards, films, television shows, and magazines bombarded me with images of white Americans and Filipinas with white facial features. Mestiza Filipina models and actresses\u2014celebrities admired by young girls like me\u2014advertised skin-whitening products.<\/p>\n<p>Color-shaming by other Filipinas continued after I moved to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States<\/a> at age 7. My mom, <em>titas<\/em> (aunts or older women), and <em>lolas<\/em> (grandmothers or elderly women) told me to \u201cstay away from the sun\u201d and \u201ctry not to get so dark.\u201d They told me I would look even prettier if I had lighter skin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/magazine\/january-2020\/comfortable-my-own-skin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comfortable in My Own Skin Sojourners January 2020 Maika Llaneza New Orleans, Louisiana My theology says brown skin is beautiful, but my Pinterest page said otherwise. MY EXPERIENCE BEING color-shamed began when I was 5 years old and still living in the Philippines. My mom and aunts often told me that I could be mistaken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,8,20],"tags":[240,30904,30903,13338],"class_list":["post-59761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-colorism","tag-maika-llaneza","tag-maika-llaneza-beardsley","tag-sojourners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59764,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59761\/revisions\/59764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}