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🌊 Brown Girl Surf at Proof Lab - the day before Mother’s Day! 🌊

Come say hi, try the goods, and shop with a local maker crafting sustainable skin and hair care solutions born from 19 years of lived experience with the sun, salt, water & wind. 🌊

Proof Lab | Saturday, May 9 | 11-3 pm
254 Shoreline Hwy
Mill Valley / Coast Miwok

Fourteen years ago, Brown Girl Surf launched with a $500 women’s business grant, a t-shirt table at Fort Mason, and a founder who wheeled herself onstage on a scooter with a ruptured Achilles to talk about Bluemind and the ocean’s effect on trauma and our wellbeing.

This month, the same organization awarded Brown Girl Surf a $10,000 grant — this time for our sustainable skin and haircare line.

Brown Girl Surf was not an easy thing to bring into the world— labor, time, personal investment, 40% retirement liquidation, more setbacks than I can count, and compensation of just $4,616 through 14 years.

This grant won’t pay me back. But it will fund half a year of maker space and help build out our website!

To our retail partners, our collaborators, and everyone who has carried this story forward — thank you. You’re part of why this is still standing.

To our Oakland friends — we’re looking for shared maker space. Small, a sink, some natural light. If you know of anything, please share. You’d be directly helping this next chapter take shape.

📸 1: BGS Debut pop up & founding community at Fort Mason Center 4/15/12
📸 2: Founder Farhana Huq about to wheel onstage 4/15/12
📸 3: Bluemind panel discussing the links between the ocean, wellness & healing trauma 4/15/12

💫 So fun celebrating International Women’s Day with taking up space with other awesome women-owned businesses! We’re here til 4!

🌊 We’re popping up at Women of the Avenue - International Women’s Day!

See you there! 🩷

Brown Girl SUrf & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY We're Popping Up at Women of the Avenue – International Women's Day! This Sunday, March 8, we're hitting the streets of Oakland to celebrate International Women's Day the best way we know how —...

Women of the Ave. Weekend 3/7 & 3/8

👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏾👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏻March 8th is International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It’s also a day to mark a call to action for accelerating gender equality.

What better way to celebrate than supporting small, local, women-owned businesses! Resurrect() will hosting pop-ups with local women-makers from 12pm - 4pm and we’ll be among them:

Saturday 3/7: Baby Cats of California and Homesewn by Kathe
Sunday 3/8: Harmony Art Shop and Brown Girl Surf

When you shop locally-owned businesses, more of that money stays in the community supporting local jobs, local vendors and services. Women-owned businesses especially tend to reinvest in their neighborhoods, schools and nonprofits.

Other participating small businesses will be hosting fun events, such as pop-ups with local makers, offering discounts or giveaways, having special tasting menus, etc...

Link in bio for more information and to see the full list of participating businesses. 👆🏾👆🏾

Attention East Bay, California followers:

🌍 Interested in taking an action to impact climate? As part of our commitment to community & loving mother earth, we’ll be co-hosting Oakland Climate Changemakers Hour of Action tomorrow!

Join us to take action on moving the needle on climate change!

Oakland Climate Changemakers Hour of Action · Luma Calling all climate-conscious denizens of the Bay Area! Come and join the Oakland chapter of Climate Changemakers for the most productive Hour of your day!…

Wild Surf Writers: Where Water Women Write ✍🏾

🌊 Opening circle begins Feb 18
🌊 Link in bio 👆🏾

🩷 We’re popping up at Kollektiv Clay Studio for Valentine’s Day!

Come check out our handmade gift sets for your Valentine, Galentine or Favorite Human, as well as a few new bath bar scents!

Kollektiv Clay Studio
3911 Piedmont Ave.
Oakland

Sunday, February 8th
12 - 3 pm

See you there…! 💘

Brown Girl Surf’s lineage has always been rooted in storytelling. Our stories began years ago with a simple blog—women sharing their lived relationship with the ocean, culture, and self.

As we continue developing our surf-inspired products rooted in sustainability, care, and love for Mother Earth, we’re also returning to our lineage with our first community programming: Wild Surf Writers, a six-week, in-person women’s writing circle.

This is a space for water women to imperfectly express their inner worlds without judgement or critique. No writing experience needed—just a pen, a notebook, an affinity for water, and a willingness to do your poorest writing.

Come write poorly with us in this curated, salon-style circle on the heels of the Annular Solar Eclipse in Aquarius.

Link for details: https://www.browngirlsurf.co/wild-surf-writers.html

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Fifteen years ago, Brown Girl Surf started with a simple storytelling blog, t-shirt shop and page.

There was no huge master plan, only a desire to create at the intersections of storytelling, art, enterprise and social impact. As our community grew, we built relationships, developed partnerships, listened, and attuned to what was emerging.

Some chapters were visible and expansive. Others were quiet, behind the scenes, or only mattered to a handful of people.

What’s stayed constant is this: care for community, love for Mother Earth, and a belief that storytelling, enterprise and social impact can all coexist.

This chapter looks different from the early ones, but it’s rooted in our same values.

If you’ve been here for years — thank you.
If you’ve just joined the journey — welcome! Looking forward to sharing the next chapter of our evolution with you! Happy New Year!

Mark your calendars!

📆 Find us at these upcoming pop-ups:

🌊 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 | 2-5 pm Stinson Beach Sip & Stroll
Live Water Surf Shop 3450 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, CA 94970
Join us for a festive afternoon featuring our new Coastal Tub Trio gift sets – upcycled misfit bath bars, biodegradable shampoo bars, artisanal dishes and more.

🌲 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 | 10am-3pm Toby’s Feed Barn 11250 CA-1, Point Reyes Station, CA
Restocking the shop + pop-up!
Find all your favorite handmade, travel-sized bath & shampoo bars.

🎨 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14 | 11am-4pm Kollektiv Clay Winter Market
Kollektiv Clay Studio 3911 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, CA
Holiday market with curated local makers right in our neighborhood!

Can’t wait to see you there!

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