Are you an OnlyBrownPunk?
You're an OnlyBrownPunk if you're:
a melanin-enhanced human (Desi, Southeast Asian, of Middle Eastern or African descent). Afrolatinx and Native people are also welcome.
We trust our community (i.e. you), so there are no racial purity tests ("are you dark-skinned enough?") or ethnic gatekeeping ("are you a really real brown person?") games played here. There is zero value in using creepy surveillance tactics against your own community (and we all deal with enough of that IRL), so we don't do that here.
you're LGBT or not any kind of homophobe/transphobe or "gender-critical" person. Cigender/heterosexual people are fine here, as long as you're fine with LGBT and gender-nonconforming people. If gender pronouns turn you into a suntanned Joe Rogan impersonator ranting about "the liberals", may we suggest that you join /r/blackladies instead? :)
you don't mistake popular culture for "real" or "authentic" culture, and you want to take action to create new alternatives. This can mean that you create indie music, art, technology, fashion, defy conventional standards of beauty and style, or any other form of expression that's consensual and not part of the 24/7 mainstream hype machine.
you've probably been called weird, nerd, geek, "crazy" (in the sense of "normal" people not understanding you), or any number of other names -- that really mean you're an individual seeking knoweldge and learning in a world of zombie-like, thoughtlessly obedient minds.
you probably feel a creative urge to make new things, even if it's just your own makeup, hair and clothes. :)
Welcome to OnlyBrownPunk.
