Artist Nelson ZêPequéno founded @blackmenwithgardens, an Instagram community that amplifies the voices and stories of Black men who garden and care for and enjoy plants.
Courtney Warwick amplifies people of color and fashion in the plant community. You may know her from her ‘I Rap to My Plants’ merch or photo series ‘Sneakers and Plants.’First and foremost, visibility. With visibility, opportunities become available. Five years ago, the majority of sponsorship dollars were going to a minority of content creators who all essentially looked the same, followed the same template and were part of the same groups.
I know it impacts the way people see us. I’m 31 years old, so I kind of remember the early ’90s, and things were still kind of segregated. The way people talked was still f— up, the way people abused each other was still f— up. A lot of things that were allowable back then were on their way out by the early 2000s.
I’ve had old white ladies write me on Instagram and be like “Hey, because of your Instagram page, I’m more likely to think the Black guy walking behind me is on his way to a plant shop and not thinking about robbing me.”
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