Centering, Uplifting & Celebrating Brown Girls
When we started planning this series, I thought it was a great idea. As women of color, the world is hard on us in varying ways and we need to remember to be kind to each other. But more importantly, we have to remember to be kind for ourselves. We have incredible worth, with so …
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation - Audre Lorde I started a new job this week and I’ve run myself ragged. I’ve come home with an achy body from all of the extra walking, stair climbing and standing. Compounded by the effects of overstimulation from being in a new environment, around …
I love my mom. My mom loves me. I believe that my mother has always loved me. I do not believe that my mother has always loved herself as much as she should have. I believe that affected the capacity of how she was able to love me. My mother, by divine magic and fierce …
Last December, I was squished between the fallout of that damn election and the stress of planning for the holidays. I was unsure of where my activism was headed, burnt out from work and not handling life well in general. I know music heals. Music is the way we express our feelings, our happiness, our …
Everyone has their favorite entertainment to escape into when the real world gets to be too real. Whether it's your favorite thing is a song/album, book, movie franchise, or television series, it is the "mindless" entertainment we turn to when we need to escape. Our favorite things keeps us inspired and using our imaginations. For those …
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Author: Sherronda J. Brown My lovely sisterfriends asked me to write about films that bring me comfort in one way or another. You will quickly learn from this list that I mostly find comfort in the bizarre and the ominous, rather than the warm and fuzzy. I am undoubtedly revealing a lot about my own …
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Don't wait for permission to do something creative. Ava DuVernay We don't need anyone's permission to indulge in the creative. Brown girls don't have a lot of room for this because our very existence is often judged so harshly. There seems to be such a strict criteria for Black and Brown kids to follow. A box they …
Our Podcast is here! It's our very first one and we are such newbies at this. It's a good start though and we are so proud to have accomplished so much. In this episode we talk about Self care and why it's so important for us. We also discuss our progress here at Brown Girls …
Ms. Emeline Jones looks a cook to prepare a famous dinner every inch of her and they are a good many of those. - An Old Fashioned Cook This week we talked about food as self-care. The process of feeding ourselves can nourish more than just our physical bodies. Feeding ourselves, especially with dishes passed down …
Growing up, it was etched into my mind that food = love. And while I wish I had learned the lesson that food = fuel and that love = love, I can't help but slide back into memories of watching cooking shows with my dad or helping him in the kitchen. He told me that …
Brown Girls Out Loud 