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Tings Brown, a 2D animated docufiction vlog series, was conceptualized to highlight snippets of social inequalities that drives citizens from developing countries such as Guyana into emigrating.

05/26/2020
05/24/2020

By Naomi Parris ON May 17, the world celebrated International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and efforts were once again made to raise awareness of LGBTQ rights violations with the aim of ending discrimination against this community around the world. “Coming out” is an importan...

Meet the personas played by local Guyanese in our 'Tings Brown?' feature video.
04/20/2020

Meet the personas played by local Guyanese in our 'Tings Brown?' feature video.

Meet Neketa, the creator of TINGS BROWN, a Guyanese graduate student pursuing an MFA in Communication Media Arts at Ohio...
04/20/2020

Meet Neketa, the creator of TINGS BROWN, a Guyanese graduate student pursuing an MFA in Communication Media Arts at Ohio University.

TINGS BROWN is a culmination of her studies at UG & OU and the first step in trying to figure out what social inequalities need to be addressed in order to stem Guyana’s massive brain drain.

Meet Sue, the host of TINGS BROWN who seeks out Guyanese migrants to answer the central question of, what pushed them in...
04/19/2020

Meet Sue, the host of TINGS BROWN who seeks out Guyanese migrants to answer the central question of, what pushed them into migrating?

Meet our first overseas guest, Cherry. She's a Guyanese human rights activist who fled religious and political persecuti...
04/19/2020

Meet our first overseas guest, Cherry. She's a Guyanese human rights activist who fled religious and political persecution in Guyana.

04/19/2020

What makes a Guyanese want to emigrate to America? Is it only fuh the money?

04/18/2020

Cherry, a transgender Guyanese woman is asked what she finds so attractive about America that would make her emigrate there.

04/18/2020

Snippets of some of the social inequalities that drive citizens from developing countries such as Guyana into emigrating.

04/18/2020

For many Guyanese, the phrase 'tings brown' expresses that someone is going thru a monetary crisis. The “Brown,” in the phrase refers to the Guyanese $20 bill which is the smallest paper denomination in the country.

For more Guyanese phrases check out: 101 Words That Tell You're Guyanese by Harold Bascom on Amazon.com

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MFA Thesis Abstract

Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools for effecting positive social change. A compelling story could move an audience, to make them grasp truths that might otherwise escape them. And with animation, volatile topics such as social inequality and discrimination could be, approached gently and simplified.

Tings Brown, a 2D animated docufiction vlog series, was conceptualized to highlight snippets of social inequalities that drives citizens from developing countries such as Guyana into emigrating. Guyana, the only English-speaking country in South America, has a population of under 800,000 people, and is steadily losing it human capital to brain drain – annually.

Full Disclosure is the pilot episode of the animated vlog which follows a Transgender Guyanese woman, who flees religious and political persecution in Guyana to seek asylum in the United States but then ends up in similar circumstances in her new home. She is left with the dilemma of either staying silent, speaking up or returning to Guyana.