solange tuyishime

On Thursday, Miss Universe Canada contestant Tiffany Munro wedged a big Miu Miu mule into her mouth while trying to encourage self-awareness about body image amongst some Oshawa high-school students. The pageant, she blurted out, didn’t want its competitors to look “like some little African child with the ribs going on.” Ouch. The crowd reacted with derision and anger while pageant rival Solange Tuyishime, who fled the Rwandan genocide as a child, crumbled in anguish. What might be easy to overlook is that Miss Tuyishime appears to know exactly who is to blame for Miss Munro’s gaffe, and it’s not (primarily) Miss Munro. It’s the media environment in which she was raised.