Strictly Business #45: Tan Brown

September 30th, 2025

Strictly Business #45: Tan Brown

Tan Brown shares how music became a tool for reflection, expression, and navigating the world. She touches on creativity, identity, and the realities of working as a femme person of color in the industry. 🎧📓

Meet Tan and other artists in our BIWOC* Rising space—individuals building culture on their own terms. We’re grateful to Tan for sharing her journey with us, both in person and now here with our online community!

‘Strictly Business’ is our monthly Instagram series where BIWoC and TINBIPOC introduce themselves, their work, and their journeys. Stay tuned for the next edition. 🌐

Strictly Business #30: Thị Minh Huyền Nguyễn

Mai 31, 2023

Huyền (she/her) is an interdisciplinary writer, artist-scholar, designer in training, 6 x marathoner and the founder of Joy Run Collective. She works between fashion art, culture and sports with the focus to empower BIPOC communties.

Strictly Business #44: Beliban zu Stolberg

März 4, 2025

Writing as a craft, a job, and a way to connect—Beliban zu Stolberg shares her journey through prose, screenwriting, and the realities of working in the arts. A conversation on storytelling, struggles, and why culture matters. 🎬📖✨

This is also a glimpse into who you’ll meet in our BIWOC* Rising space—powerful creatives like Beliban, shaping culture and pushing boundaries. Thank you, Beliban, for enriching our physical space and now also sharing your experiences and insights with our online community!

‚Strictly Business‘ is our monthly series on Instagram, where BIW*oC and TIN*BIPOC introduce themselves, their business/project, and their personal journey. Stay tuned for the next one! 🫂

Strictly Business #11: Monia Fettah

Mai 27, 2021

This month, we’d like to introduce you to Monia Fettah from Amouny Berlin – a store in Friedrichshain where you can find handcrafted Moroccan fashion and treasures.

INTERSECTIONAL WORK & SOCIAL CLUB

BIWOC* Rising is the first intersectional work & social club in Berlin and Germany. This safer space is exclusively for women, trans, inter and non-binary people who identify as Black, indigenous or of Colour! Through training programs, empowerment workshops, and a work-desk in the heart of Berlin-Kreuzberg, BIWOC* Rising is creating a new working culture – a working culture that transcends the white, homogenous, capitalist one that has been a core driver of gentrification and marginalization in Berlin.