Majority of my life I have struggled with accepting the attribute “dark skinned.” The sneaky connotation that lingers in those syllables have always felt like an attack. Like it spit my blackness back at it me and othered me in a race that is already othered. I have sat with myself and asked, “what’s triggering me here?” Is it the implicit racism in the words that often follow that descriptor or am I distancing myself from my darker hue because I internalizing the colorism I despise so much? Maybe it’s a mixture of the two.
Dodge, is a collection of gifs that play with the double entantra of dodging darkness and seeking light. The quiet adoration for light skin satiated by the power of my darkroom tools. Acknowledging my failure to block out the inevitable colorist ideals that have been steadily imprinted and passed down generation after generation.
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