Centering, Uplifting & Celebrating Brown Girls
Brown Girls are born into the world expected to give care. In some cases we are taught to mother before we are ever mothered ourselves. Sometimes we mother ourselves. Strong Brown Girls are seen as warriors before they are seen as human, before we walk or talk, we are fierce, pretty things. We are pushed …
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 …
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1000 Years of Solitude This quote has stayed with me through quite a few decades of my life. It has obliged …
I grew up poor. Like, really poor. "I shared clothes with my siblings, had one pair of shoes to last all school year, scrubbed my clothes by hand in the bath tub" poor. My mother was disabled and my father, often in between jobs. We were without a lot of things that my friends and …
Brown Girls Out Loud 