“My Family Is From The Caribbean And We Do Colorism So Well”: 11 Moments From “Light Girls” That Had Us Talking

Do Lighter Women Deal With More Sexual Abuse?

I’m not sure how something like this can be measured, but multiple women in the documentary who were sexually abused said that as the lighter sibling, they were often the ones picked out and molested out of all the children in their home. TV personality Onyxx Monopoly said, “A lot of light skinned girls raised in families, especially if it’s an African American family, the lighter girl gets most of the sexual abuse. In my sleep I was being touched on. In the streets I was being touched on, and it made me feel like a blow-up doll.”

Another woman, activist and actress Brook Bello, took things a step further and said that after running away because of molestation in her home, she was taken in by a couple who eventually beat her and got her involved in sex trafficking:

“In the arena of human trafficking…there is definitely a choice between dark skin and light skin. For me, that was the first time I realized that it’s not really great to be this if the stigma is that I’m going to make this guy I don’t even know this money. I lost my virginity that way.”