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S10, Ep1 How to Fail: Jameela Jamil

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Distinguishing From Your Culture

I didn't really see many South Asians. I think Ashwarya arrived briefly. She was in bride and prejudice. But outside of that, no, not on the runways,. Not on the covers of magazines and definitely not as protagonists in films. Those were all I saw. And we were only allowed on mainstream television if we were ridiculing our own culture. It made me feel as though I should either align myself to whiteness or blackness or just anything. This is why I still despair at how ableist our industry is. How must people with visible disabilities feel when they look out across the fashion pages of this industry and on screen and almost never see themselves represented unless they are

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