Why I say no to lasik
Lasik surgeries can have devastating and life-altering results. Despite what doctors tell us, complications from lasik surgeries are not “minor” when they affect someone’s mental/emotional happiness and quality of life.
How I improved my eyesight naturally by using weaker glasses (Part 1)
Follow my journal entries as I try to improve my myopia by using progressively weaker glasses.
Rappler: The tyranny of tisay beauty (in Tagalog, tisay means a white-skinned woman)
A Rappler article that asks how to teach a Filipino daughter to survive in a country where brown skin is less desired than white skin.
SBS News Video: African-Australians are bleaching their skin
In Australia, a 22-year old Black woman describes how skin whitening creams are widely used by girls as young as 14 in her Melbourne community. She says African mothers encourage their daughters to use such creams “to become more beautiful”.