Ecstatic Release: Music from Mali, Senegal, and Beyond
This sonic journey starts with casually joyful songs from West Africa and builds to a climax with experimental electronic music from William Onyeabor, Francis Bebey and others.
Our Content
Explore our complimentary weekly mindfulness series. If you can't see it, you can't be it. Reimagine your destiny with our guided meditations and affirmations.
Our eBook
Self-care as a traditionally marginalized person is a powerful act of revolution. This is the definitive guide to reclaiming your limitless potential.
Our Community
We use our platform to create an uplifting global community. When one of us wins, we all win. Reclaim your place in history by joining our tribe.
Music as Therapy
Music connects us all by bringing us to the same emotional landscape. It transcends culture and language, uplifts, and inspires. In "Music as Therapy" we champion existing and emerging artists through our playlist series Synesthésie Sounds.
Food as Medicine
Food is more than what's on your plate. From food politics and social injustice, to how to prepare delicious and nutritious meals for you and your family, in "Food as Medicine" we discuss where your food comes from and how to use it to best serve your goals.
Is Veganism a "White" Thing?
The clean eating, green beauty, and holistic health movements seem to be, at a glance, predominantly promoted by and marketed to upper/middle class Caucasians. This view does people of color a...
"Clean Eating", Race, and Class
Clean Eating. Green Beauty. Holistic Healthcare. These two-word combinations are largely positive. Yet for people of color, it's easy to feel excluded from these types of movements.
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access
Food deserts are a very real and occasionally overlooked phenomenon with a complicated history of structural racism and inequality. Author and Professor Ashanté M. Reese analyzes the problems and solutions...
Beauty as Birthright
Here we discuss products and methods that help nourish your skin and body, accentuate your natural beauty, and inspire a sense of play. Beauty is more than skin deep. How you feel about how you look effects you more than you may think. We help you feel confident, nurtured, and gorgeous without ever sacrificing quality.
The Beauty Bible for Women of Color
The ability to walk into any salon, spa, or store for beauty products is a quiet privilege that most people of European descent are completely unaware of. Yet this silent message...
The Black Girl's Natural Skincare Guide
We've simplify your natural skincare regime into 3 easy steps and highlight clean beauty products that you can comfortably embrace as a women of color.
Clean Beauty for Women of Color
Here we highligh beauty brands designed for WOC that are free from harmful ingredients, toxic chemicals, and actually good for your skin.
Pleasure as Power
We believe your connection with the sensual is just as important as your physical health. Therefore, we encourage our community not only to educate themselves about their reproductive rights, but to also incorporate practices into their lives that nourish and nurture their passions and pleasure.
Meet Underthing: Lingerie Celebrating Women of Color
The lingerie of today is for YOU. We discuss the new company Underthing which celebrates the sexuality of women of color.
Orgasm Blocking Thoughts (and what to do about them)
How to deal with negative thoughts that arise during sex to avoid getting pulled into a cycle of shame and avoidance.
The Erotic as Power: Why Audre Lorde's Essay Still Resonates Today
We discuss the work of black feminist Audre Lorde entitled "Uses of the Erotic" and how this concept is still, if not more, relevant today.
Wearable Art Silk Headwraps
Decadence Silk Headwrap
$125.00
The Decadence design was made with digital 3D technology to create a luxurious diamond-shaped motif. It features a regal gold and cerulean palette inspired by the Palace of Versailles. This wearable...
Opulence Silk Headwrap
$125.00
A lighter take on Decadence, Opulence was made with digital 3D technology to create a luxurious diamond-shaped motif. It features a delicate Cornflower palette inspired by traditional porcelain chinaware. This wearable...
True Colors Silk Headwraps
Scarlet Silk Headwrap
$125.00
The Scarlet Headwrap is part of our True Colors collection and features our luxurious silk fabric in a striking true red. A standout accessory on its own, it also pairs seamlessly with our...
Tangerine Dream Silk Headwrap
$125.00
The Tangerine Dream Headwrap is part of our True Colors collection and features our luxurious silk fabric in bright mango. A standout accessory on its own, it also pairs seamlessly with our matching...
Lemonade Silk Headwrap
$125.00
The Lemonade Headwrap is part of our True Colors collection and features a sunshine soaked lemon hue in luxurious silk fabric. A standout accessory on its own, it also pairs seamlessly with our...
Emerald City Silk Headwrap
$125.00
The Emerald City Headwrap is part of our True Colors collection and features our luxurious silk fabric in a deep emerald. A standout accessory on its own, it also pairs seamlessly with our...
Cobalt Silk Headwrap
$125.00
The Colbalt Headwrap is part of our True Colors collection and features a stunning royal blue in luxurious silk fabric. A standout accessory on its own, it also pairs seamlessly with our...
Purple Reign Silk Headwrap
$125.00
The Purple Reign Headwrap is part of our True Colors collection and features our luxurious silk fabric in a regal violet. A standout accessory on its own, it also pairs seamlessly with our...
Our Mindfulness Series
Nourish yourself with our 10-minute meditations designed specifically for women of color.
Fear Less
Reflections, plus a 10-minute guided practice to connect to our inner strength and power.
What We Believe
This 10-minute guided meditation focuses on limiting self-beliefs and how they can completely immobilize us if we’re not careful.
Things Fall Apart
Reflections, and a 10-minute guided meditation to be used at any time, but especially when things become a bit difficult.
Radical Self-Care
As people who have suffered systematic abuse throughout history, showing ourselves compassion can be a revolutionary way to reclaim our space.
To further our message of mental, spiritual, and physical health, we release our meditations weekly with the intent of strengthening and building a global community of game changers.
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Listen to Our MeditationsGet the Guide
Self-care is an often mocked buzzword these days, but that shouldn’t detract from its true importance and value. It is truly revolutionary to take care of yourself as a historically marginalized person. The very act defies a systemic abuse at its core.
Our new eBook "Align. Grow. Thrive." is filled with holistic guidance and pragmatic steps to reclaim your full potential.
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Slow Fashion
We believe fashion should never be cheap, disposable, anonymous, or made in poor conditions.That's why we take a holistic approach to the design and production of our goods. Through this holistic approach, we can maintain a commitment to sustainable and ethical production and manufacturing processes.
Each of our products are made to order each time you purchase from us. This allows us to avoid waste created by overstock and cut down on the unnecessary use of fossil fuels to ship our products from a distributor, to a warehouse, and finally over to you.We believe our customers care about the environment as much as we do and respect the 3 to 6 week window it requires to print, cut, sew, and ship our products.
Each of our pieces are designed by an artist in collaboration with Maison Synesthésie. The artist receives residuals in perpetuity and is given an outlet to expand on a global scale. Every time you purchase from us, you supports a community of deserving artist as well.
Our Manifesto
We believe in a future where the historically marginalized are the rule and not the exception.
We believe we can stand in the glory of the achievements of our ancestors while shaping a new world.
We believe black and brown bodies, women, allies and members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and those with disabilities are not marketing tools or ad campaign fodder but real, breathing people and a symbol of strength and resilience.
We believe our existence; our survival through all we have suffered is a revolutionary statement.
We believe each time we choose to buy into brands that support us a whole we speak loudly with our money.
We believe fashion can be used as a tool; as a marker to say we also belong in traditionally privileged spaces.
We believe clothes do so much more than cover our bodies. By choosing garments that have a message and make a statement, we further our vision of ourselves in this great, wide world.
Ashé