Tan France will release his own documentary and will touch on the racism he faced while growing up in Doncaster.
has revealed he bleached his own skin at just nine-years-old.
‘I was just a child and I felt so much pressure to be lighter. The shame about my skin I experienced outside the house followed me home, and so I put on the cream.’‘It’s often within communities of colour themselves that people are discriminated against based on the darkness of their skin, and it has lifelong effects of internalised shame.’
‘I would be a hypocrite if I didn’t, but I still carry shame about it because I was old enough to understand better,’ he shared.
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