'I was profoundly aware of how different I looked'

Emma Dabiri, broadcaster and social historian, on beauty – and her journey from alienation to self-acceptanceI was five years old when I first became aware of my otherness. I’m black Irish – my mum was born in Trinidad to Irish parents and my dad was born in Ireland to Nigerian parents who had moved there in the 1940s. Although I was born in Ireland, we lived in the US until I was five, and it was only on moving back to Dublin that I was made profoundly aware of how different I