am a Jamaican Canadian who never took no for an answer. I am a woman. I am a Black woman. I am my mother’s child. I love my family, chosen and given. I never pass up an opportunity for a prank. I am all these things, and so much more, before what is happening with my skin. I started developing vitiligo—an autoimmune condition in which the body’s immune system attacks the melanin-producing cells in skin and hair, causing de-pigmented patches—when I was four. It
