I have a cold. My eyes are hot and my head feels like it’s going to explode. Still, I decided to use my precious coherent minutes searching for a picture of a brown female, suffering from the cold.
I searched:
- Brown girl sneeze
- Brown girl with cold
- Indian girl with cold
- Mexican girl with cold
- Indian girl with flu
- Mexican girl with flu
- Brown girl with flu
- Brown girl with tissue pile
- Indian girl with tissue pile
- Mexican girl with tissue pile
- A thousand other variations
In fairness, I did find a picture of an incredibly light-skinned Mexican girl with a flu mask, and an incredibly light-skinned Indian girl with a thermometer, but I just wanted a little representation of what I look like right now… and I’m pretty brown.
Benjamin Moore paint puts me in a cross between Maple Sugar and Tumeric.
In case you were curious, there are plenty of pictures of sick pumpkins, lizards, and everything else imaginable.
Of course, maybe I’m just too fuzzy to search appropriately. In fact, I’m so fuzzy that the original point of this post is lost on me, so I’ll wrap up with a little public service announcement.
Just in case the internet really is frightfully devoid of people who look like me–sitting in a pile of cough drop wrappers, bottles of water, and tissues– please know that maple-sugar-brown skin does not prevent the cold.
And now you know.
So, what exciting things in your life have I missed while being unable to read more than a few posts a day? What are your miracle cures for getting over the common cold?
Triple strength garlic, horseradish etc http://www.naturesown.com.au/triple-strength-garlic-c-horseradish-fenugreek-marshmallow/, take care Robert
My mom swears by Natures Own product and that lady is rarely wrong
so I’ll check this out. 
Even though garlic, horseradish, fenugreek, and marshmallow sound like the least likely combination in the world, haha! 
Thank you, Robert!
Hope you are feeling better. Sorry for your picture finding troubles, too. I always feel bad for darker skin athletes who have to wear bright beige-looking band aids. It’s kinda similar to your story, but maybe not really? Just saying we should all be equally represented. Xo
Exactly! I don’t mind wearing the bright beige bandaids, but I dislike that they’re called “skin colored”, haha… if that’s skin-color, what am I?
I’m not feeling a lot better, but at least that fuzziness has faded and I can think straight and read for longer than 10 minutes at a time. I was going crazy without my daily dose of reading!
hilarious. hope you feel better!
I promise to put up a picture of me when I have a cold the next time. And I have a cold almost all the time thanks to dust allergies, a weak(ish) immune system and a city called “Bombay”. I’m caramel corn brown. HOPE THAT HELPS. Also, hope you feel better of course!
Hope you are feeling better!
Your skin color description sounds delicious, though! Hope, soon there will be bandaids in all colors.
Personally a dose of paracetemol in tea with lemon plus a healthy shot of brandy (if this is allowed) and soon I don’t care who I am or how sick I am. In fact, deliciously sick. Haven’t had a cold for ages – since I became a vegetarian I’ve generally been a lot healthier.
When I did my post on Sickness should be banned at work, I couldn’t find any pictures of white women as sick either. I guess real sick people aren’t very popular.
“Women with flu” or “woman with cold” or such variations bring up some white women. Of course, I don’t know what colored hair or general weight or eye color you were looking for!
I keep thinking I should have just snapped a picture of myself, but being sick is not something I want to commemorate, haha. 
“girl with flu” returns an awful lot of sick white faces, a scattering of brown ones and a good fraction of apparent models pretending to be sick.
I was dismayed when I went looking for an image of a female firefighter… a real one, not the type you’d invite to a bachelor party. Trying to find an image of a (real) female construction worker… same problem.
Maybe it’s not true. Maybe you can’t find anything on the ‘web….
You definitely can’t find anything on the web. There’s a lot of missing pieces… but we’ll get there one day!
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What is the colour of your skin? LOL