


Emma Murengo
Lensed by Anne Sophie Guillet
“I’m Emmanuelle, 27, from Brussels, Belgium. Both of my parents are from Burundi but I’ve lived most of my life here in Brussels. As a black trans woman, I am in the intersectionality of three minorities. While growing up, I could first witness this kind of issue through the eyes of my elder sisters. As we lived in Africa, we grew up with imposed European beauty standards. As I saw them playing with their blond and blue eyed dolls, the process of interlacing the wrong idea of beauty apparel often along with self-hate (the feeling of not having the “right” hair, the “good” skin or body type. “