MC1R Project by Michelle Marshall | tumblr
Documenting the incidence of the MC1R gene mutation, responsible for red hair and freckles, amongst black/mixed raced individuals.
"i want to stir the perception that most of us have of a ‘ginger’ person as a white caucasian individual potentially of Celtic descent. (…) Mother Nature follows its own course, embracing society’s plurality and, in the process, shaking up our perceptions about origins, ethnicity and identity."
OMG they look like meeeee
FYI: To anyone who head canons Tris, Aly or Alanna as black and/or mixed raced.