As a sixteen-year-old, first-generation Indian boy, I have been using skin whitening products for ten years. And until a year ago, I did not know that it wasn’t okay. I write this essay under a pseudonym because I am
I. My shoes. I didn’t realize how far my Mary Janes had taken me until they started to split at their soles. The once glossy-black toe box turned lusterless, the buckle bent upwards, and my frilly white socks that