1. Skin. Writing with Color has received several...
Aug 27, 2014 · I've read one too many books in which authors compare dark skin to chocolate, brown sugar, honey, caramel…And these are very specific word ...
Skin. Writing with Color has received several asks on this topic. Everything from “how do I describe my character’s skin tone without being offensive?” and “what’s the problem with comparing my...

2. writer has adjusted to having darker skin
5 days ago · If you have darker skin it might be more of a “true darkening of the skin usually more brown in nature” says Evan Goldstein DO anal surgeon and ...
If you have darker skin it might be more of a “true darkening of the skin usually more brown in nature” says Evan Goldstein DO anal surgeon and founder and CEO of Bespoke Surgical a New …
3. How to Write About Character Skin Color in Your Novel - Dabble
Jan 6, 2023 · Using food to describe darker skin tones is a form of colorism, which refers to the preference or discrimination towards people with lighter ...
That’s great—our fiction should reflect the world as it is and that means including people of various ethnic backgrounds and skin tones. But the history of writing about people of color is kind of… awful and it’s important to remember that you can’t just throw in a BIPOC character without giving some serious thought to how you represent and describe that character.

4. Color film was built for white people. Here's what it did to dark skin. - Vox
Sep 18, 2015 · In an essay for Buzzfeed, writer and photographer Syreeta McFadden described growing up with film that couldn't record her actual appearance:.
The biased film was fixed in the 1990s, so why do so many photos still distort darker skin?

5. Taking and Editing Photos of People with Dark Skin
Tips from a San Francisco event photographer on how to photograph and edit people with dark skin and dark hair. Treat them with care and respect.

6. Let's Talk about Skin Tone - Michelle Rascon
Feb 28, 2023 · Let's talk about skin tone in fiction stories and how you can better utilize it to do less harm and give characters better descriptions.
[This post has been adapted from a Twitter thread initially published on October 28, 2020.] Let’s talk about skin tone. The point of this post is to educate, not blame or ridicule. The purpos…

7. Diversity of Skin Images in Medical Texts: Recommendations for ... - NCBI
Jun 11, 2021 · A 2018 study of general medicine texts found that under 5% of images included dark skin tones. ... This has been seen in primary medical ...
Foundational academic medical texts facilitate foundational understanding of disease recognition in medical students. Significant underrepresentation of darker skin tones and overrepresentation of lighter skin tones in dermatologic texts, general medical ...

8. The "Bad Is Black" Effect - Scientific American
Jan 17, 2017 · In other words, regardless of race, dark skin was associated with evil in the minds of people who saw a link between darkness and badness.
Research finds darker skin is associated with perceptions of evil

9. The Difference Between Racism and Colorism - Time
Oct 6, 2016 · Skin color matters because we are a visual species and we respond to one another based on the way we physically present.
‘Colorism' is deeply ingrained in the fabric of this nation

10. [PDF] The Biology of Skin Color - HHMI BioInteractive
Our modern human ancestors in Africa likely had dark skin, which is produced by an abundance of the pigment eumelanin in skin cells. In the high-UV environment ...
11. [PDF] Human Skin Color: Evidence for Selection — Educator Materials
Based on this information, write a hypothesis ... very little variation in MC1R alleles; almost everyone has the allele associated with the darker skin trait.
12. Study finds gender and skin-type bias in commercial artificial-intelligence ...
Feb 11, 2018 · For darker-skinned women, however, the error rates ballooned — to more than 20 percent in one case and more than 34 percent in the other two.
A new paper from the MIT Media Lab's Joy Buolamwini shows that three commercial facial-analysis programs demonstrate gender and skin-type biases, and suggests a new, more accurate method for evaluating the performance of such machine-learning systems.

13. DARKER SKIN TONES SET | Dr. Barbara Sturm
I began my Sturm journey with the Darker Skin Tones travel set and immediately knew that I had found a winner. None of the products are harsh, and my skin is ...
Formulated to address the specific dermatological needs of darker skin tones by reducing visible signs of irritation and hyperpigmentation. Shop now.

14. The Ancient Origins of Both Light and Dark Skin - The Atlantic
Oct 12, 2017 · But most of the variants that Tishkoff's team identified, for both light and dark skin, have an ancient African origin. They likely arose in ...
A study of diverse people from Africa shows that the genetic story of our skin is more complicated than previously thought.

15. Why Skin Colours Differ - Department of Physics - UiO
Mar 15, 2011 · Evolution has given us shades of skin colour from black to white, optimally adapted for us according to where we live on Earth. Where the sun is ...
Why do some people have dark skin while others have light-coloured skin? The answer lies in the skin's need for protection against solar radiation and the body's need for vitamin D.
