'Brown Girls' follows Leila (Nabila Hossain), a South Asian-American writer just now owning her queerness and her best friend Patricia (Sonia Denis), a sex-positive black-American musician who is struggling to commit to anything: job, art and relationships. Leila is the character based on Fatimah's real life.
The series is filmed exclusively in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood for a multitude of reasons: logistics for the crew, most of the cast lives in Pilsen, and it's a beautiful neighborhood where there are intersections of different races and artists of color.
Watch all seven episode of the Brown Girls web series on browngirlswebseries.com.