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Welcome to Skinquiries S2 · Skinquiries

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  Speaker 1: Skin is deeply personal, which is a strange thing to
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  Speaker 1: say about something that everyone can see. Before people know
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  Speaker 1: our story or even our name, our skin becomes part
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  Speaker 1: of their first impression of us. It ships how we
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  Speaker 1: get dressed, how we sleep, how we work, go to school, date,
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  Speaker 1: take photos, attend parties, and sometimes it dictates whether we
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  Speaker 1: even want to leave the house.
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  Speaker 2: It just felt like I was a shell of a
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  Speaker 2: person and I just wanted to hide.
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  Speaker 1: So when it starts flaring, itching, or doing something completely unpredictable,
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  Speaker 1: the day can start to feel like a series of negotiations,
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  Speaker 1: all centered around that pesky little question, how can I
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  Speaker 1: make myself less visible?
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  Speaker 2: My outfits are dependent on my skin condition about long legs,
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  Speaker 2: and unfortunately these long legs are covered in eczema, so
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  Speaker 2: usually I'm going to aim for pants.
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  Speaker 1: We have spent enough time hiding the parts of this
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  Speaker 1: experience that are already so hard to carry on our own,
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  Speaker 1: So on this show, we're giving it space. I'm Dylan
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  Speaker 1: Maren and this is Skin Quarries, the podcast about what
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  Speaker 1: it means to live in our skin. This season, we
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  Speaker 1: are talking to people living with skin conditions about the
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  Speaker 1: questions that don't always get asked, like, what does it
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  Speaker 1: feel like when your body becomes unpredictable?
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  Speaker 2: I lost the ability to grow hair, I could not
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  Speaker 2: recognize myself in the mirror.
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  Speaker 3: I've never felt as horrible as trying to put a
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  Speaker 3: child with open wounds and a bathtub of salt. When
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  Speaker 3: people tell you that it's like the miracle cure.
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  Speaker 1: How do you hold on to your joy when your
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  Speaker 1: skin keeps interrupting the plan?
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  Speaker 3: It destroys your heart to see your child non stop rubbing, itching, scratching.
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  Speaker 1: And what changes when you finally meet people who get it.
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  Speaker 2: I went up to a handful of black girls in
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  Speaker 2: the room, and I was like, can I take a
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  Speaker 2: photo of our hands? Because I just have never seen
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  Speaker 2: people's hands who look like mine, you know, And I
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  Speaker 2: was just so excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: Skin can be funny, frustrating, vulnerable, confusing, exhausting, and so dramatic,
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  Speaker 1: but it can also connect us to our bodies and
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  Speaker 1: to each other.
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  Speaker 3: It was the hardest thing, and I just I didn't
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  Speaker 3: want anybody to have to go through that. That's why
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  Speaker 3: I started the Exema Company.
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  Speaker 2: The Black Girls with Exzema community like supports me and
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  Speaker 2: poors into me just as much as I pour into them.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about it. This is skin Querries, dropping
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  Speaker 1: every other week starting July twenty third. Follow and subscribe
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  Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.