It’s truly powerful when lighter-skinned Afro-Latina or brown-skinned women step up to defend dark-skinned women in spaces where colorism and racism thrive. Colorism has deep roots — even within communities of color — and it thrives on division. For a lighter-skinned woman to actively reject that bias and call out harmful speech is an act of solidarity that challenges the very systems that keep colorism alive. It’s more than just defending an individual; it’s a rejection of a long history of int