Singer, actress, model. Grace Jones hails from Jamaica and has spent her adult life pushing boundaries and defining her own. After taking the world by storm in 1970 as an international model, she soon became known as a singer, performer, actress and fashion icon. Unique. Bold. Trendsetter. Unapologetic. Grace Jones is the embodiment of living out loud. …
Nina Simone — Black History Month
The High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone lived Black, proud, and out loud. She called her sound "Black classical music", which she created to provoke curiosity in the minds and hearts of Black people around the world. Ms. Simone wrote, played and sang passionately the struggles of Blackness and resistance during the Civil Rights Movement. …
Sojourner Truth — Black History Month
One of the pioneers of feminism, Sojourner Truth was also the first proponent of intersectional feminism. She addressed the nuance between women's issues and those of Black people over a century and a half before Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the phrase. Born enslaved c. 1797, Truth fought and won a slander case where she was accused …
¿Que Lo Que Pasa Acqui, Salma?
It has taken me a minute to fully wrap my head around and unpack this conversation. I really wanted to talk about it but I want to make sure I'm clear about my position. In my mind, this is a teaching moment for many of us in the LatinX community...I'll explain... Recently the LA Times published …
And The Queendom Expands: Reflections of a Pregnant Bey
Yesterday, I was sitting down, minding my own business while minding everyone else’s by scrolling my Facebook feed and stumbled across this post from my friend Roni. My jaw dropped. I sat frozen, only repeating, “Omg. OMG. OMG!” I wasn’t alone. Two group chats both were full of celebration for the news of the impending …
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Michelle Obama — Black History Month
With style and grace, Michelle Obama reluctantly became the first Black First Lady of the United States. A brilliant and accomplished leader and public servant in her own right, she worked diligently to end childhood obesity and to advocate for military families while raising her own young family in the White House. Michelle served as …
What’s really good, Facebook?
Earlier this week, we announced the creation of this website via a Facebook post using the photo you see above. This photo is part of an editorial by Joey Rosado. The Colored Girl: Rebirth is the brainchild of Victory Jones and Tori Elizabeth. This showcases women of every shade of brown in beautiful neutral toned clothing. …
I’m Too Much and Just Enough
This is my first post for Brown Girls Out Loud (BrGOL). Asia and I have been toiling away to deliver amazing, uplifting, and authentic content. The process has been cathartic. Right now, every place I turn, I'm seeing brown girls devalued and diminished. I see erasure and my sisters making themselves smaller. Why? We are …
Maya Angelou — Black History Month
Developing a love of truth, standing for civil rights, enjoying life itself and recording the experience, our matriarch became an inspiration. Maya Angelou’s words, spoken, on the printed page or reflected here, continue to promote self-examination, equality and friendship. Believing that “we are more alike than unalike”, Maya Angelou would be the first to say …
Brown Girls, Out Loud
"Yes, We love black women. We are black! But we are also brown and part of a much larger global community of Colored Girls. And yes, we feel that what we are doing is sorely needed, because representation matters." - Victory Jones and Tori Elizabeth When we started this project, I immediately had visions …
Brown Girls Out Loud 