WRITTEN BY JOEWACKLE
“I
dropped out of school almost every year, and al-
most every year, I enrolled in another. My mates
made schooling unbearable for me because of my
skin condition. I hate to call it a condition because that
translates to something being wrong with it, but that de-
fined me. This is who I am. I was born this way and to me,
this is the only skin I have known. Apart from my mates
teasing me, it was really difficult to see what was written
on the board. There was that, and there was the living in
constant fear every day of my life because I can’t wake
up one morning and feel like not wearing my skin today.
My skin was part of me. It is who I am. I could go on an
endless rant about the number of time I have been treat-
ed like a criminal because of my skin in public spaces ” –
Anonymous.
10 | Colossium . October 2018