Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. In the story, Cassie forms an odd friendship with her stalker ( Olly Alexander), and tries to support her younger brother Reuben as their father ( Neil Morrissey) fails to cope with the death of their mother.
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Formerly a daydreaming party girl with a number of mental problems, Cassie has put many of her problems behind her, and waitresses at a café in London after having spent several years travelling around America with her then-boyfriend Sid Jenkins (Cassie's on and off boyfriend from the first two series who traveled to America to find her at the end of the second series). "Skins Pure" focuses on the character of Cassie Ainsworth ( Hannah Murray), a main character in the show's first two series. While in its first six series Skins was a teen drama focusing on the life of Bristolian teenagers, "Skins Pure" like previous episode " Fire" is a filmically and tonally distinct drama revisiting one of the show's characters as they adjust to adulthood. Airing in two parts in 2013, "Skins Pure" was the second of three feature-length episodes of a specially commissioned seventh series to bring the series to a close. " Skins Pure" is a feature-length episode of the E4 television series Skins.
And that makes me feel really, really proud.3rd and 4th episodes of the 7th series of Skins " Skins Pure" They thank me and tell me that I inspire them. And not just from dark-skinned women but from all women struggling because of insecurity. Now that you're modeling, what kind of comments do you get about your skin? They called me "darkie" and "god of the night."
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I wanted to try it at the time because I felt a little embarrassed being dark, but my sister told me not to, because she said my skin was unique and beautiful. Once my cousins in Senegal asked me, "Why do you want to be that dark?" and told me to try skin-lightening creams. They don't know that being dark is something they don't need to change.ĭid you face any pressure to change your skin color? It's something that they need more education about. Yet some people in Senegal use skin-lightening products.Įveryone there wants to be light. In my family, only my brother has a similar skin color. Have you met anyone else with your skin tone? When I was younger I didn't have any inspiration to like the skin I was in. I was scared because I didn't know what I was getting into.īut almost everybody was telling me, why not? So I did it because I wanted to inspire girls. I wasn't interested because I wanted to get my education first. When I was in high school in Paris, some photographers wanted my photos and asked if I was interested in modeling. He suspected that Diop was from Senegal the moment he saw her picture. That's typical in countries close the equator, where the dark pigment melanin protects against UV damage from the sun's rays. From his research, he's found that people from Senegal and the islands of Micronesia have some of the darkest skin tones in the world. Marc Shriver, a professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, has measured skin pigmentation around the world. "Little black girls need to see that just by being themselves they are equal," says Victory Jones, who is one of the group's founders and now Diop's manager.Īnd while her skin tone is unusual in the world of modeling, it's not in Senegal. In August, she posed in a photo campaign with black women of all shades for The Colored Girl, a group that challenges society's beauty standards.ĭiop's pride in her skin has inspired hundreds of thousands of women to follow her on Instagram, where she posts photos of herself using the hashtags #melaninpoppin and #blackgirlmagic.įor The Colored Girl, that's the big-picture message. It's what shot her to the social media stratosphere recently. Goats and Soda Egypt's All-Woman Roller Derby Team Is Skating Past Stereotypes
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