@BrownPeopleCamping is a social media initiative that utilizes personal narratives and digital storytelling to promote greater diversity in our public lands and outdoors community. 

 
It has been a year since COVID-19 shutdown the world. Everybody lost something indescribable. Those who had little were deprived of even more. Families torn apart: from birthdays to funerals, from hospital visits to holidays, everything faded into so
My greatest fear as a little girl was that I didn’t belong in any of the places where I found myself. My fear now as a grown woman is that I don’t deserve all the places I find myself. Places of power and beauty and service. Places with a
In service of God and country we make our way to the streets. Not with guns and body armor but with hand-painted protest signs and weaponized hope. How little the world thinks of our sacrifices, like we didn’t stand up for duty, like we didn&rs
#Sponsored: I stumbled into the outdoors as an immigrant kid and didn’t have a reason to question why no one out there looked like me, where as at school my classroom chairs were filled with kids of varied skin colors & hair textures. I was
You’ve been trying to make it your whole life. Grinding it out at the expense of your aching hands and feet and heart. Minutes turned into days into years. I should have, I could have, I need to, I have to. So many wrong turns and missed exits.
As a patriot, the first great betrayal of my life was the national lie about Iraqi WMDs – a lie that sent a generation into perpetual war and killed hundreds of thousands around the world, all while allowing poverty and injustice to run rampant
#Sponsored: One of my favorite things about exploring the outdoors is finding new ways of exploring it… well, new to me.  . Growing up as an immigrant child in the United States, I was a sponge for learning all about my new “America
There isn’t a woman in this world who hasn’t been betrayed by her own idealism. Not a woman in this world who took a step forward expecting solid earth beneath her feet and instead met instability in the shape of a trembling egos. Not a w
When you go through the trauma of racism as a child it changes you permanently. You feel unwelcome in a place for the first time not because you misbehaved but because of who you are— ugly because of where you’re from and the color of you
Those who fear feminism stand to lose the most by its success. . Those who oppose me stand to gain the most from my silence. . . 📍Ancestral land of the Algonquin, #Assateague, Nanticoke, Choptank, and other #Native tribes and communities . . Will
Leaves fall and feed the floor. From that earth rise trees that feed the world. Simply because it’s all we’ve ever know— from our first breath to our last, from our ancestors to our offspring, from inhale to exhale — makes it
#Sponsored: It’s time for a family meeting ya’ll. We need to get serious about acknowledging and dismantling extremism in the outdoors community. Go summit that mountain, go through-hike that multi-state trail, go feel pain and push your
 
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America’s National Parks Face Existential Crisis Over Race

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Nature Fix: Ambreen Tariq is trying to make the great outdoors welcoming to all, one photo at a time.

"When you go to places you believe you don't belong is when you see the profound."