Weighing Privilege Against the Tanning Bed
When tanning becomes a form of racial tourism
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7 min readJun 20, 2019
The first rule of tanning is to pretend you didn’t spend hours tanning.
Earlier this year, a senior Trump administration official told The New York Times that the president’s famous tan was owed to “good genes” — not, as former aides have claimed, a result of hours spent begoggled in a…
