Public health prioritizes survival, but often overlooks how people live in their bodies. This piece examines how skin health for women of color is dismissed as “cosmetic,” revealing deeper structural blind spots around embodiment, dignity, and preventive care.

It is not in spite of her Judaism, but because of it, that Dari feels compelled to speak out. Her time in Jerusalem and the West Bank allowed her to witness firsthand the ongoing struggle for self-determination and to stand in solidarity with communities facing the same state-sanctioned violence, oppression, and displacement her ancestors endured.