Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar is a poetry and prose zine about the complexities of young brown girl-womanhood. In just 3,000 words, Brown Sugar explores ideas of exoticism, racial fetishization, inner community violence, eating disorders, toxic masculinity, gayness, beauty, and tough-girl politics. Brown Sugar is a teenage girl manifesto, a fast paced and eloquent tantrum. Born from experiences of the author’s own life, Brown Sugar aims to describe the lives of South Asian girls with as much ferocity as possible.

this 40 page zine is about brown nipples, eating disorders, skateboarding, punk rock, murder, fine arts, strap ons, flat earthers, bitches and aunties and god.

manifesto/prose/poetry/essays by Ananya Pandya
page count: 40 pages
color: black & white
size: 8.5 X 5.5