Centering, Uplifting & Celebrating Brown Girls
Your book takes a disappointing turn Your childhood (music + books = everything) The Reading Rainbow Your favorite book becomes a movie Bookstore run "You have too many books," Me: Summers be like Me: "Reading any good books?" Them: "I don't read" Me: Searching for a quiet place to read Why didn't you use a "Spoiler …
I know that many of you clicked over in a rage. You are ready to accuse me of my own display of sexism and racism. You are ready to accuse me of click baiting you like a troll. No matter, I'm glad you are here, we need to talk. We have some hard truths to face …
Continue reading "White Men are a Hazard: It is critical we admit it – Part I"
This summer Brown Girls Out Loud is hosting a Summer Reading, Book Club for Patrons only! Our first book was chosen by our subscribers: Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God. A novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, wrote four novels and more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. …
If there's a book that you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison Books, writing or reading them can be therapeutic. Whether transporting you to another place and time or guiding you towards healing, words are powerful. Books are affirmations of the human spirit and …
The art of preserving family history has probably existed for as long as humans have had language. In general communication, I can imagine the first people passing down ways to find food, how to make tools and how to stay safe laced with stories about the people who taught them; their kin. It was passed down …
Author: Sherronda J. Brown Black and Brown women and femmes centering ourselves in our own lives in a world that constantly asks us to center everyone else is not only a form of resistance, but also a form of self-care. A part of that self-care means dating how we want to date – if we …
Life, for a lot of people, can be a series of unfortunate events. It's seemingly, a stacked deck or roll of the dice. Where we are born, to whom, when, in what skin; These things determine a lot about our journey from birth to death. For example, trans-gender women have a life expectancy of 35 …
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. -Zora Neale Hurston Her words are a warm glow of truth near some far off dark and vulnerable place inside myself. I am exposed. I have been in hiding. The world can be so damn ugly and unsafe. It is easy to forget, the one thing …
Let's cut all the bullshit from the narrative that has become "self care." Self care, as it's currently being sold, is a buzz word heard so often, from capitalists marketing, "an experience," that it has lost almost all its meaning in the practical world. In our podcast, A and I briefly discuss, "the face of …
Continue reading "Brown Girls, Self Care, and Total Well-being"
A "self care checklist" looks different for each of us. This is because women of color, depending on how her identities intersect, face unique challenges in the world. Sikivu Hutchinson, author and educator, tells us, "Black women experience intimate partner and domestic violence at a rate of 35% higher than do white women." The mental, emotional, physical, …
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