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.
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 part 2 of her series on representing albinism in art, Natalie Devora features the conversation she had with artist and painter Teresa (Tess) Njeri Mugo. A free-wheeling chat about artistic process, authenticity in art, and feminism, Natalie delves deep into the artistic collaboration.
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.