Ayan Omar

Visibility of black travellers has long been a glaring issue, resulting in the birth of the Black Travel Movement, a global campaign which began in 2013 and focused on uplifting black travellers and authentically representing them. The movement is this generation’s version of The Green Book, a travel guide first published by Victor Hugo Green between 1936 to 1966 and used then as a guide for African American travellers in the era of Jim Crow and “sun down towns.” A collaborative study by the Wom

In some cases, the Fitzpatrick skin phototype, a classification system used to categorise the spectrum of skin colours, is used to develop and test skincare and makeup products. The scale was first introduced in 1975 by Thomas B Fitzpatrick, a Harvard dermatologist, and for several decades was utilised by dermatologists to determine how different skin tones respond to UV rays and how to treat skin disorders. In recent years the scale has been dismissed as hugely inaccurate and biased, with only