Yasmine Akram: “I don't need to earn my…

Isabella Silvers

Jan 10, 2022

The actress on reckoning with her heritage and achieving her dream of whiteness

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Coming from a very mixed background I can identify with this

My mix is ;British born Scottish Jamaican (lived in Jamaica when I was younger), and my daughter is what I am and half Pakistani

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Loved this! Could really relate to it.

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