“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.”