Centering, Uplifting & Celebrating Brown Girls
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 …
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela We've featured his words here before and I am almost certain we'll use them again in the future. Nelson Mandela is beloved. This week he is inspiring us to hope. We know that given the current state of the union, hope isn't overflowing. We …
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 …
Brown Girls Out Loud 