A powerful voice for albinism awareness, race advocacy, and LGBTQ+ rights.
I am Natalie Devora, writer, speaker, teacher, and advocate dedicated to raising awareness about albinism, racial identity, and minority rights. My journey, shaped by my experiences as a Black woman with albinism, has driven me to write, educate, and fight for visibility, inclusion, and justice.
In this, Natalie writes about the experience and the decision to give a reading from her memoir, the critically acclaimed ‘Black Girl, White Skin,’ to an unexpected audience: family that she will meet for the first time. Natalie recounts her process and the emotions she had to navigate to prepare for this reading, which happens soon.
Natalie writes about her shopping experience in Nairobi: the dress that she wore featured along with the painting “Becoming Oneself,” that received a lot of compliments, and also a couple more dresses she picked up while shopping from one of her favorite boutiques, Nguo Affordable.
In the concluding instalment of Natalie Devora’s series on representation of albinism in art, Natalie traces her own journey, the greatest of them all: becoming oneself.
In this journal entry, Natalie Devora writes about the experience of giving a reading from her memoir, Black Girl White Skin, at a family reunion for the first time. A powerful look at how authenticity and vulnerability allows us all to finally be seen.