Challenging Isms

By Victoria Serrano

My project challenges beauty-ism and colorism by questioning the audience's perceived image of what beauty is. The media create the false notion that beauty is only attainable by those who fit a limited number of physical traits, as well as those who have lighter shades of skin, something completely out of people's control.

This type of thinking harms those who don't fit the idea of what mainstream beauty is, as well as misinform those who are easily susceptible to what the media tell us. Beauty has no definition, and I want to challenge individuals to question this and question the media's influence on what we deem attractive or “beautiful."

I intend for the audience to take a look at themselves, what they have been taught and how they have been influenced, and question if their love for their significant other would change if, hypothetically, their spouse were to be of characteristics that don't fit society's standards of beauty.

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Victoria Serrano is a first-year student, majoring in Psychology.