The Brown Bike Girl

THIS WEEK, LAST CHANCE: You can still see the co-produced HIGH VIS film fest celebrating stories of BIPOC people on bikes thru the end of this week! Pay-what-you-can for admission and also help future filmmakers of color. Go to FilmedByBike.org to enjoy by Friyay!

Get ready! Get set. Get spooky with this adult trick or treat ride for you by me, my ride trainees, and our pals at @bikecoopnyc. Costumes encouraged. Mask & helmet req,d.... Best costume prizes from our friends at @nachosbikes! -- A kind reminder that people and cultures are not costumes. Costumes appropriating or antagonizing people races, gender or sacred identities will not be welcome or tolerated.

# bikenyc, the #Bedstuy independent neighbors are back at organizing rides! Mark your calendars for 10/10 and 10/17. Plus this important #ghostbike ride led by Riders4Rights demonstrating the inequity in the distribution of #bikelanes btwn white and POC neiighborhoods!

What are you doing this weekend #bikenyc? Bedstuy group ride trainees are back to leading independent rides for the fall! This Sat, 10/10 ride to BK Bridge Park w Don. 10/17 come back for a leisure ride around the Stuy w Jeffrey.

Did you love it? I hope you at least liked it. There was so much diveristy of stories and styles and adventures in last nights HIGH VIZ celebration of BIPOC cycling stories. I hope I served you well as co-producer and picked films that sparked something in your heart or mind. If you missed it, the fest ticket link is still up and available for your viewing thru 10/31. Please watch. Viewing parties are totes encouraged. (Please encourge individual donations too.) And ...PLEASE TAG A BIPOC CYCLIST OR FILMMAKER TO MAKE THEM AWARE OF THE FILMMAKER GRANT OPPORTUNITY for new or experienced video storytellers to get money for equipment, fees, and receive an advisor! LINK IN BIO Thank yous upon thank you to our collective of guests from all the affiliated HIGH VIZ programming. Give them and their work a follow: @gato_mitchell_films @cleeeopatra @chocolatespokes @brownhopeorg Love to my @filmedbybike team as well. That was indeed PHENOMENAL!

Not gonna lie Im excited. You love bikes? Be here. And maybe get inspired to submit next year. Available online through 10/31

The @FilmedByBike free virtual happy hour is live now with Black bike activists in #bikePDX (Portland OR) and Milwaukee, WI! -- Black Liberation Ride organizer and cofounder of Black Lens project! https://youtu.be/FBLXpKd--mQ #bipoc #FilmFestival #movementmakers

Tmw 10/3! My first ever film fest streams! Bringing Black, Indigenous, & POC bike stories for joy, appreciation & inspiration! Its a late showing (bc Portland time), BUT ur ticket allows you to stream any time for a month! Go to filmedbybike.org https://vimeo.com/460662489

Tag your boro pres, CB ,+ councilmember if you want #BigFixDay in your #bikenyc borough. It's my #nycbikemayor oath to support more cycling access, but funding support is needed to make it happen! #bigfixdayBX...QNS...SI...in 2021? Let's get it!... https://www.streetfilms.org/100-bikes-upgraded-with-care-at

Faces of the HIGH VIS (that stands for high visibility) BIPOC film fest coming to ur internet enabled device at 10/3. Co-produced by yours truly. Lets celebrate great stories from the Black and brown experience! Get your tickets via my bio. Suggested donation $20 supports racial justice projects in Portland and a new filmmakers grant for #BIPOC cyclists and visionaries.... #representationmatters #thebrownbikegirl

Happy hump day! Look at all this brown biking goodness thats going to be part of the High Vis film festival of BIPoC shorts this Saturday 10/3. And this isnt even all of them! Please go to my bio, get a ticket to watch this @thebrownbikegirl @filmedbybike collab for greater representation with me 9PM. Suggested donation $20 if you can or whatever you can. >> Go to filmedbybike.org ... Thanks for @machinesforfreedom & @peopleforbikes for sponsoring so that profit from Saturdays program can go to the new filmmaker of color grant! #thebrownbikegirl #blackcinema #filmmaker #pocfilmmakers #representationmatters #blackcyclist

It's my birthday week! And I would love if my worldwide family of brown bikers and supporters would join me Saturday night to stream the" HIGH VIS" BIPOC bike film program I've co-produced with Filmed by Bike! The 90 minute program is nothing but back-to-back Black and brown epicness, fun, truth, and comedy taking place on two wheels. You may have already seen the logo floating around my social media. Please check out the trailer, then purchase pay-what-you can ticket at ...filmedbybike.org. The profit from your donations go to Brown Hope and the new BIPOC filmmakers grant! You can watch live the fest live and participate in international chat via Youtube on 10/3. Or if you're in a late time zone, save you link to access later. Either way let's chill, relax, and be inspired! https://vimeo.com/460662489

New ducklings! Congratulations to the newest cohort of graduate group ride leaders. Brought to you by @citibike! Shawn @shawnrevfit is leading for the BXs 149 St BID. Khy @__therealkhy__ is leading for @jobspluseh in East Harlem. And Stanley @yvng_fesser is leading for @elpuentepresente in BK.

#BigFixDayBK free pop-up bike repair, the 1st public philanthropy event of #nycbikemayor Courtney Williams (The Brown Bike Girl) was a huge success -- Have you seen the recap video? The People's Bike Mayor organized teams of professional mechanics, and a squad of volunteers to fixed almost 150 bikes (143 to be exact) and saved East New York, Brownsville, Canarsie, East Flatbush (and a few uptown visitors ;) ) over $3000 in parts and service repairs! The Brown Bike Girl was... motivated to help neighbors in the BK Boro zip codes most severely impacted by COVID infection and highest rates of death recognize & regain access to their bikes as a means of socially distant bike transportation. Most of the areas in the former "two fare zones" are only accessible by crowded buses. Giving free bike repair to overcome finacial hurdles to bike repair in crisis IS the type of transportation, health, and economic equity we need. The Brown Bike Girl hopes to rotate the event to at least two more boroughs in 2021. --- Thanks and acknowledge to the community of supporters who made this possible: - Liv Cycling, Purelements An Evolution in Dance, OrangeYouGlad Design, and countless community members for financial support. - Mechanics: NYC Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op, Haven Cycles, Bike Rescue, Eddie C's Bike Institute, and Neutral Race Support of Philly,PA - Ridiculuously delicious food: The Migrant Kitchen, Eugenia & Pablo https://vimeo.com/459944018