News Summary

• Growing up in India, I’d always identified as a girl.
• I am upper-caste, upper-class, Hindu, and also a Tamil woman who didn’t look like the models in the Fair & Lovely commercials.
• This was the beginning of a strange dysphoria I would experience upon immigrating to this country in 2015 for college, one that would constantly remind me of my brownness and judge my womanhood by how far I could distance myself from it.