NEVER CHANGE YOUR IDENTITY TO FIT IN OR PLEASE ANYONE - a podcast by Women in the Gap

PwS Quote: "If others have done it, you can do it too" by Sheila Glavee

Tanvi's Quote: "No pain no Gain"

Host: SHEILA GLAVEE
Guest: TANVI JEPH


Excited to host another child prodigy, Tanvi Jeph. Tanvi is a 13 year old writer and poet. She shared with us her writing and poetry journey. Most of her poems are on both local and international platforms and has recieved recognition as the editors choice.

Tanvi also shared with us how she has faced discrimination and sidelined for being dark-skinned. How she has been rejected for her skin colour but never gave up on her dreams. She shared how her friends tried to influence her to bleach her skin just so she can fit in but she never did.

Do you know that she has many poems BUT the poem that caught the editors eye, became the editors choice and is on most local and international platforms is the one she wrote about herself? Listen to all the juicy bits.

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TANVI'S POEM

I am a bit darker than the rest
But I believe I am the best,

No one likes my skin colour
Just because it's a bit duller,

People ask me to apply whitening creams
I am not fit in this world it seems,

People love to alter your looks
You can get altered for getting in their good books,

My colour is given by my Dad
So why shall I be sad,

People don’t accept me the way I am
I think this whole beauty thing is a sham,

They won’t understand the meaning of Pretty
Because they focus on things which are Petty,

I don’t care if I were as black as coal
As I have accepted myself from my heart and soul

by Tanvi Jeph


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