Skin Lightening [Ft. Rena Dipti]

Rena Dipti, writer, director, producer and host of The Sisterhood of the MummyImperfect Podcast joined us this week to talk about the multi million pound industry that is skin lightening.

We talked about Bollywood's obsession with fair skin, brown people's complex with the sun, the UK based problem in comparison to India and the pressure placed on women to look lighter.

Shaadi.com also recently removed the tone filter on their website however it further enforced the problems set within Asian culture.

Joel reflected on the skin tone based issues within the music industry particularly within Dancehall surrounding Vybz Kartel.

Rena talked on a need of more accurate representation in film and wedding magazines for example as to what it is to be a brown person as opposed to European models being casted in place of actual Asians.

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