Brown Girls

Brown Girls is an American comedy web series created by Fatimah Asghar and Sam Bailey.

[1] Two women of color, Leila and Patricia, a queer Pakistani-American writer and an African-American musician respectively, lean on each other to get through the difficulties of their mid-twenties.

Episode One – The series opens with Leila getting a call from her Aunty Bushra, who berates her for forgetting to say Eid Mubarak, and asks her if she is having sex which she denies even though Miranda is naked in her bed.

Episode Two – Patricia tells her booty-call, Jason, to leave her house as she does not want him to spend the night after they have had sex.

Patricia calls her mother and initially says she quit her job because it was too stifling but later reveals that she was fired.

Patricia tells Leila that she hasn’t sang publicly in a year and that everyone she knows in the music industry is a connection she made through Brendon.

Scripting began in the fall of 2015, and Bailey joined the project after a public reading in early 2016.

Founder of Open TV Aymar Jean Christian added the project to the web platform's slate.

[6] The show was praised by The Atlantic for having a novel vision of femininity in its representation of matriarchal families, as well as in its centring of women of colour.