'Colourism is an issue': What the first Melanesian beauty queen thinks about Pacific beauty pageants today

Sistas, Let's Talk
05/11/2021 6 min
'Colourism is an issue': What the first Melanesian beauty queen thinks about Pacific beauty pageants today

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Mere Nailatikau was the first Melanesian women to win a Pacific beauty pageant in 2009. She tells Sistas Let's Talk why pageants today should not be the only way women receive a platform for change.

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