Explores how racial categorizations and colorism have shaped the performers’ lives, opportunities, privileges, and prejudices. The performances will reflect ways in which colonial histories, scientific classifications, and social structures have upheld the imagined superiority of light skin and have oppressed those with darker skin tones. Pinto first developedColorism as an art exhibit at the University of Michigan, questioning psychosocial and biological ideas about skin color, and the treatment of people based on their skin tones. Pinto joined onstage his colleagues Yen Azzaro, Prof. Daicia Price and Sreyashi Dey, all of whom were featured in the original Colorism exhibit, telling expanded versions of their own personal stories of colorism on stage. The performers’ stories investigated such questions as, How does colorism manifest in our lives? What can we do to eliminate interpersonal and structural colorism?