<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Arnaud,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I've just remembered a documentary related to your post that is very much worth watching.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a link:</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXG38QxXY-s">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXG38QxXY-s</a><br><br><br></div><div>Andreas</div><div><br></div><div><br>--- On <b>Mon, 19/9/11, Arnaud HERVE <i><arnaudherve@x-mail.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Arnaud HERVE <arnaudherve@x-mail.net><br>Subject: [Gendergap] Black skins<br>To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org><br>Date: Monday, 19 September, 2011, 13:06<br><br><div class="plainMail">On 17/09/2011 22:40, Emily Monroe
wrote:<br>> I remember accessing Wikipedia several times throughout my teenaged <br>> years; we cannot expect all of our readers to be an adult with a <br>> better understanding of anatomy.<br><br>Just a quick note here : I've been talking to a dermatologist and she <br>tells me one of the main issues is black women taking all sorts of meds <br>to lighten their skin.<br><br>It is often detrimental to health, and also it leads to considerable <br>money loss in impoverished families, and unnecessary sorrow.<br><br>I just thought Wikipedia should be aware of that. Here (fr) <br>dermatologist are recruiting black women in the medical sector to lead <br>campaigns against that.<br><br>I guess one of the ways would be to show dark black women pictures more <br>often, not just light brown.<br><br>Arnaud<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gendergap mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org"
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