AphroChic Magazine: Issue No. 12
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Interior Design<br />
Quiet Respite<br />
in Brooklyn<br />
Step Inside the Home of Somewhere Good's<br />
CEO, Naj Austin<br />
Naj Austin loves building community. The founder of Ethel’s Club<br />
and CEO of Somewhere Good, Naj has been working to build offline<br />
and online spaces around community and creative engagement<br />
for the past three years. Her newest venture is a social media app<br />
without likes or follows, that’s been designed to be a safe space<br />
for Black and queer communities. Located in the buzzing Brooklyn<br />
neighborhood of Crown Heights, not far from Somewhere Good’s<br />
headquarters in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Naj is also creating a good<br />
space to call home. “It's definitely an oasis from the bustling<br />
Brooklyn streets,” she says.<br />
Words by Bryan Mason and Jeanine Hays<br />
Photographs by Melanie Reiders and Sean Pressley<br />
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