YOU MAY NOT LIKE THIS

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THE TROUBLE WITH DIVERSITY

THE TROUBLE WITH DIVERSITY

It didn't go far enough.

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VERONICA NADINE GLEESON
May 16, 2025
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Hello.

I am white.

White to the outer edge of Celtic-Scandi blue. Translucent, pretty much. I am, in fact, so physically fair that as a kid I was bullied for not being brown enough. The cultural bandwidth of my Australian upbringing was so narrow there was one colour it was acceptable to be.

See below:

Big Caramel wasn’t just a disgusting milk flavour …

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