this this this i’m a dancer and i remember watching a ballet documentary when i was younger and seeing that michaela deprince’s mother would take hours to dye all of the parts of her costumes that had “flesh tone” mesh to match her skin color since flesh tone almost always white https://twitter.com/ashwrites/status/1266088796921245703

this thread does a really great job of showing how even the most mundane of products (most of which are very necessary, such as band-aids) are catered towards white people and how products marketed as “skin toned” are pretty much always white

i just saw someone else in the replies to the thread talking about michaela deprince and the “flesh tone” dance pieces... it’s so upsetting how the dance industry is so implicitly (and honestly pretty explicitly) racist? now that i think about it like even when you picture