Brown Girls Food Club is a space for women of color to build community around good food, all while supporting local minority owned businesses.
At the start of Ramadan in 2019, Ayesha Erkin found herself alone at sunset, preparing to break her fast. While she had a few good friends in Austin that she could have invited over for dinner, Erkin says most of them were white, and would not have understood how much it meant to share that meal together.
Over the last few years, what started as a series of lively dinners at small apartments in Austin has quickly grown to meet-ups at BIPOC and immigrant owned restaurants in Dallas, New York, London and Istanbul. The group, now called, is a global network of thousands of women of color who are making connections while discovering local food.
Around once a month, Erkin helps plan a meet-up in a different city after doing extensive research. She takes a lot of different things into consideration when selecting a restaurant for a meet-up, including the story behind the food and how much the restaurant could benefit from a little bit of exposure. In Dallas, she’s held meet-ups at Eddie’s Euromart and Kenzo Sushi.
“We’re all different ethnicities. So it was just a way to create a space for BIPOC women in Austin, because I felt like that wasn’t necessarily there,” she said, “If you identify as a minority, and if you identify as a woman, then you’re welcome here.” “It’s not about if you’re from a different country, or belong to a different religion. We all have similar experiences,” she said.
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