The media loves to portray people like me—people experiencing psychotic breaks and those with severe mental illness as violent and predatory. As people who should be locked away.
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Are you a white hiker interested in creating inclusive outdoor spaces in your community? Get comfortable with examining white culture—naming and potentially deconstructing what you’ve always considered to be normal, or the standard.
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As I have worked through decolonizing my own relationship with nature, I have learned that our obsession with summits is obsolete. In fact—it is problematic.
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Tired of buying outdoor goods that compromise your values? Brown Girls Climb is taking action!
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The summers get pretty hot here in the Southwest. So what’s a climber to do when heat makes it harder for your hands to hold on and easier for your feet to slip? Sunburns and zapped energy are also part of the struggle. But you don’t have to stay indoors all summer. Here are a few tricks that I use to keep me climbing throughout the summer in the high desert heat!!
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Recently, skateboarding feels like one of the only ways I can think of to refill my cup. I still climb—the sport I’ve been doing for seven years, but there’s something special about learning something new
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Loving the outdoors isn’t “acting white,” it’s rejecting white supremacy and the belief that the outdoors belongs to white people. You belong there too. So here are 10 ways to prepare for your first backpacking trip this summer. Backpacking is for everyone. Just never forget, you are on Native land.
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My parents adopted the American Dream and encouraged assimilation as a way to survive and succeed in the United States. This meant growing up without raíces—roots to home.
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An immigrant’s perspective on how to make the outdoors feel safer and more accessible.
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What I wish my white outdoorsy friends understood about race
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In my experience as a Black woman, I feel significantly safer in the backcountry than I have ever felt in any populated area. I have had far more instances of feeling threatened by predatory humans than by predatory animals.
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The first time I dislocated my shoulder was in college. Little did I know then, I have a connective tissue disorder which makes it easy for me to dislocate joints. Once I started climbing, I began to dislocate both shoulders regularly and was forced to learn how to put my shoulders back in place. One day, I stumbled upon an exercise that changed my life and I haven’t dislocated a shoulder in years.
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Kisha Jarrett is one of a handful of Black women who are thru-hiking trails across the U.S. This summer she'll be heading out on the 1,200-mile Pacific Northwest Trail. One of the things she’ll be carrying with her is an autoimmune disorder that affects 1 in 250 African American women.
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For those of us who grew up as the ‘token’ Black, Indigenous or Person of Color (BIPOC), sometimes it’s hard to admit that being ‘the only one’ is our comfort zone—we’ve never really known anything else. Let’s discuss!
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Annapolis Rock in Myersville, MD is a hike I will probably never do again—more on that later. Here are a few reasons why YOU should check it out.
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In 2019, we first interviewed Afro-Latina surfer Dominique Miller, a standout performer on the APP and WSL, about the joys and challenges of being a self-taught, dark-skinned woman of color in the surfing industry. Since then she has announced a Billabong sponsorship and grown her social media following to over 100k followers.
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We know purchasing expensive outdoor gear has been at the very bottom of your to-do list, so, here’s a guide to help you acquire gear on the cheap, from one broke person to another.
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It’s been just two weeks since the March 16, 2021 Atlanta shootings, where eight people were killed—six of whom were Asian women, four of whom shared my Korean heritage
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Join us for six different conversations about colorism at home and in the outdoor community.
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Pistol squats are one of my favorite exercises. I’ve always found them to be fun, but they are also a great exercise that translates well to climbing. Get ready! I’m going to share four exercises that will help you develop your pistol squat!
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