BROWNTOURAGE

New music video out by Sister Mantos!

Remember that no matter what happens in the inauguration, that Browntourage is committed to assist with the persistence of brown and intersectional communities in these times!! TINTED, our new column on Rookie Mag, will seek options, share wisdom, research the yuck things, and light the sweet things. Holla if you need! [ CLICK THRU]

Centering the marginalized with our curated section of the Additivist Cookbook titled, Subalternate Realities. We got our fav artists from various diaspora to consider how additive methodologies of 3d printing, weaving, community could factor into a decolonial future. The full works can be viewed in the very center of the The 3D Additivist Cookbook!*  [free downloadable 3Dpdf of really extraordinary works and thoughts]

OUR STATEMENT: Design does not exist in a vacuum. A designer conceptualizes solutions for a specific time, place, and, most importantly, lifestyle. Subalternate Realities focuses on post- colonial, non-western, queer, and/or feminist frameworks of additivist production. With the goal of centering marginalized lifestyles, Browntourage prompted artists from radical backgrounds to take on the role of industrial designer and imagine how a specific communities outside of the mainstream would function within a specific speculative future. Each artist designed an artifact that the community would use in said future. Presented through archival media from the future world itself, the final works featured in Subalternate Realities raise a wide array of issues regarding accessibility, sustainability, pleasure, and biopolitics. By tapping into the subaltern consciousness to layer new realities, we hope to manifest a ‘history from below’ where #additivism engages the critical imagination.

[ DOWNLOAD THE 3D ADDITIVIST COOKBOOK ]

huge recommend: Smoke that Travels

Fuck Me or Destroy Me - Aisha Mirza ft. Harnaam Kaur (Music Video as Doc)

Catching up on life and reentering society and coming across this gem in our Facebook inbox!

First off, this title aka the classic drama of the types of attention received when living diaspora life in a visibly brown body, like basically exotified fetishism or fear. 

Second off, Aisha’s song is really really nice and powerful in its mix of small details and absolute conviction. We think its very accessible and poetic to take a musical twist on traditional short doc form and I think it worked out well. 

Here’s more on their intentions (quoted from Nylon):

In more recent years, Mirza’s work has honed in on the specific experience of being black or brown and queer/trans, and the complicated relationships with body hair that come with these identities. Mirza is “really interested in the mental health impacts of body hair norms, what it means to be hated for such an abundant part of your body”.

... “[Harnaam] can work so hard to reject and restructure societal oppression, and yet still be defined by her otherness. How her extraordinary personhood is built on something that never should have been extraordinary.”