In this episode of The Melanated Files (MFiles) we introduce Christine Barnes, a Canadian Business English teacher and consultant living in Japan. Christine shares her experience with fat phobia in Japan as well as her experience living in Japan as a black woman for the past nine and a half years. Watch to hear her story.
You can find Christine on Instagram here: @therenascent
The Melanated Files or the MFiles is a Black Experience in Japan's series that highlights black people living in Japan. It focuses on sharing the story of the individual; who they are; what they do; what they are passionate about; and what their experience has been so far, as a black person living in Japan.
Melanated is a word that is regularly used in the black community. It means “full of melanin.” Files is in reference to the collection of stories of black people in Japan that will be shared in this series.
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