Nasra Rashiid is a 26 year old Somali woman who was born in Nairobi and raised in a small town in Sweden called Karlskrona. She has always been interested in illustration and decided to pursue a career in Visual Communication as a result. She studied graphic design with a focus on sustainability and global issues. Nasra is now a newly graduated graphic designer based in Stockholm who has a passion for animation and uplifting the black woman's voice.
the film
‘Shady Business’ is a visual communication project that aims to provide a space for conversations and discussions on colourism within the Somali context. For many generation our elders have been led to follow a status quo of "the lighter the skin, the better".
Through the intergenerational perspectives of individuals affected by past and current manifestations of colourism, this project will hopefully add to the support and advice we would have needed from our elders but couldn’t receive due to the oppressive systems of racism, white supremacy, patriarchy and colonialism, put in place by an external autocrat; the white man.
Our parents are bearing decades of trauma that they themselves don’t understand because of it being so normalised. We’re the generation that can demand change for ourselves and set new tones for coming generations.
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