I had such a great conversation with my friend, Hera Nalam. She is an interdisciplinary artist based in Canada. This means she writes music, sings and dance, and acts in theatre in film. We talk about her own journey of decolonization and what it's like to navigate Filipino representation in a mostly-white media industry. If there's one common denominator in all my private and podcast conversations about decolonizing, it's about how white beauty is upheld in mainstream media. This has influenced our desires to attain and adhere to white beauty. The lack of BIPOC representation meant that we have always felt our skin and beauty as inferior. This is why the an episode about representation is really important.