Trigger warning - this podcast contains depictions of both physical and emotional torture and pain. Listener discretion is advised.
Somebody asked me recently, what I thought might be different about my life, had I been born in a different skin in less brown skin? And my immediate response was, how could I possibly know? We none of us really know, do we, what the other person experiences. But the thought of not experiencing this life, as someone with brown skin has never really occurred to me, has never really been something that I have tried to inhabit. It would never be something that I could ever walk through, you know, what would a day be like? What would a week be like? I have no idea. What I did think, though, was that there have been some peak experiences. And by peak, I mean bad peak, not good peak. There have been some peak experiences that have really, as the kids say, grind my gears. And one of those is the felt sense that somehow I could cope with things more easily than my peers. And perhaps that I could withstand more emotional pain than my peers, or at least that there was somehow societally an expectation that I could…
Read Linda Villarosa’s article - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-differences-doctors.html
Connect with Angie on her website - www.angelabrowne.co.uk
A full transcript of this episode is available at https://being-luminary.simplecast.com/episodes/the-myth-of-thick-skin
This podcast was written and presented by Angie Browne. Original music was by Martin Austwick. The series is edited and produced by Big Tent Media and Emily Crosby Media.
