Chelsea Murphy

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Encouraging a more inclusive and equitable outdoor community while celebrating and representing Black motherhood in the midst of a dominant culture. Join me here.

Shifting outdoor culture. Inspiring joy + liberation.

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Here to help you find your way outside 🌿
🏕️ Black motherhood in the outdoors
🍄‍🟫 30 minutes OUTSIDE everyday
📍 PNW 💌: shecolorsnature@gmail

Day 28 of #MyBlackOutdoorJoy 🥳 We made it all the Day 28 of #MyBlackOutdoorJoy 🥳

We made it all the way to the end, centering JOY, amplifying Black-led organizations and people in the outdoor industry! If you believe everything in this post - hype US up in the comments!!! WE OUT HERE. 

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH Y’ALL 🫶🏾

OUR BLACK OUTDOOR JOY MATTERS 🙌🏾

Be kind to one another. Amplify each other’s work. Let’s build the outdoor industry we want to see. 

#SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors #BlackPeopleOutdoors #BlackHistoryMonth
Day 27 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy 2 days left of Black Day 27 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy

2 days left of Black History Month 🤯 BUT in this little corner of the world we celebrate Black Outdoor Joy and center Black voices and experiences 365 days a year. 🤎👏🏾✊🏾

✊🏾 All February long I have been posting for Black History Month because our joy in these spaces is an act of resistance. This platform is suppressing my outdoor joy. With over 100k followers not one of these videos has seen even 10% of you 🥺 

🫶🏾 Please help by choosing your favorite video from the series and sharing it to your stories today!! 

🫶🏾 OR, Leave a comment on this post if you see it: What’s your favorite color, and where can you find it in nature??

My Black Outdoor Joy made possible by people throughout Black History! See you back tomorrow! 👋🏾

📹 “she was a fairy” @hafapaige 😘

#SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors #BlackOutdoors #SheWasAFairy
Did you spot the bunny tracks? 🐇 My first and fav Did you spot the bunny tracks? 🐇

My first and favorites from @campsnapcamera and the oldest National Park in the country. 📸🦬🌲🌨️

Activating the winter loving human in me while snowmobiling through @yellowstonenps with @alaskaair last month with my husband! 🤎

Which photo is your favorite? 

I love how these screen free digital camera’s encourage less time on my phone and more time in the moment! I also love how the film comes out naturally looking like it’s from the early 2000’s - those really were the good ole days! 🫶🏾 

Since this trip, I’ve been encouraged to start checking off more National Parks as we travel. Thanks for coming along for the journey, y’all are the best! 👋🏾

#CampSnap #CampSnapCamera #BlackOutdoors #SheColorsNature DiversifyNationalParks
Day 26 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy I don’t have an end Day 26 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy 

I don’t have an endless amount of photos of myself outside as a kid but I know it’s always where I’ve felt the most whole. I’m doing this FOR HER, and all the little brown kids who don’t see themselves in outdoor spaces because of lack of representation 🫶🏾

REPRESENTATION MATTERS 🗣️🗣️🗣️

✊🏾 All February long I have been posting for Black History Month because it’s important. This platform is suppressing my outdoor joy. With over 100k followers not one of these videos has seen even 10% of you 🥺 

🫶🏾 Please help by choosing your favorite video from the series and sharing it to your stories today!! 

🫶🏾 OR, Leave a comment on this post if you see it: Where was your favorite place to camp as a kid?? 

My Black Outdoor Joy made possible by people throughout Black History! See you back tomorrow!

#SheColorsNature #BlackHistoryMonth #Representation #BlackOutdoors
Day 25 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy Yes, we navigated a Day 25 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy 

Yes, we navigated all the way down through the trees! Thanks for glissading with us 👋🏾 A local friend taught me how to do this once and I never looked back and was sure to teach my kids! This is an outdoor memory they go back to every winter! We had gotten 3 feet of snow overnight a few years back and it was the winter that made me fall in love with the cold weather and the joy of winter activities. The outdoors is where I mother best 🫶🏾

Glissading defined 🛷 a climbing technique mostly used in mountaineering and alpine climbing where a climber starts a controlled slide down a snow and/or ice slope to speed up their descent. Glissading is ideally done later in the day when the snow is softer. Most glissading is done in a seated position, with the legs bent. SO FUN!!

4 days left in the best month of all time!!

👉🏾 Take a moment and go check out all of the other posts in this #BlackHistoryMonth series! See you back tomorrow for more Black JOY outside! 👋🏾🪵🌳

#SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors #BlackOutdoors | Black People Outside | Glissading
Day 24 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy Motherhood 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿 Ou Day 24 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy 

Motherhood 🫱🏾‍🫲🏿 Outdoors. This combination has saved me over and over again. If I had to start motherhood all over again, finding JOY in the outdoors alongside my kids would be the one thing I wouldn’t change. My kids have always been an integral part of my “Why do you go outside everyday?”. I want my mixed race kids to have a sense of belonging in the outdoors. The girls are both so little here, I love reliving these videos, brings me so much joy and takes me right back to this day. 

I do this because my ancestors could not, and I can only do this because of what they did for me to be here ✊🏾

Find some time today to spend in nature. It is our birthright. See you back tomorrow for more Black joy in the outdoors 👋🏾🏔️🫶🏾

#SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors #BlackMomsHike #BlackOutdoors | Black History Month
Day 23 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy Got out for a mornin Day 23 // #MyBlackOutdoorJoy

Got out for a morning walk remembering #AhmuadArbery. 2.23 miles for the date he was murdered for simply running while Black. If you have the capacity - take some time to walk, jog or run for Ahmaud Arbery because he will never be able to again. Say his name. I would also highly recommend reading @alisonmdesir book called “Running While Black” and joining her events she puts on if you are looking for community!! 

Today we remember Ahmaud ✊🏾 @ahmaudarberyfoundation 

This is a series for #BlackHistoryMonth to center and celebrate my Black joy in the outdoors. Sharing little moments in nature that brought me peace and joy so others can understand the importance of getting outside too!

👋🏾 Follow along and share this series! See you back tomorrow for more BLACK joy outside! 

#SheColorsNature #DiversifyOutdoors | RunningWhileBlack | BlackOutdoors | BlackOutside
Day 22 // JOY ON PAUSE TODAY 🚨 SEE BELOW ⤵️ Post Day 22 // JOY ON PAUSE TODAY 🚨

SEE BELOW ⤵️

Posting joyful content around the outdoors this month is proving to be difficult because in the past year alone there have been 4 Black people found lynched in the South - yet local police are quick to say there is no foul play and claim they have all un-alived themselves. Call your US representatives and demand further investigations into these murders!!! @5calls is the app I use to be directly connected to the representatives in my area, your voice is needed! SAY THEIR NAMES ⤵️

Torrence Medley

Earl Smith

Demartravion (Trey) Reed

and the latest #KyleBassinga

Black people should be safe in the outdoors. We should be free to hike, play and exist in the backcountry without this ever present notion of danger in regards to being brutalized or lynched. It’s 2026 so it feels far fetched for some, but I would be remiss to scroll past this news in my feed and continue speaking about my personal joy in the outdoors without highlighting the pain of others. No news outlets are speaking out about this uptick of Black deaths in the same manor - spread the word. Share their stories!!! Read, learn and recognize that historically police mishandle these cases all the time. Corrupt police departments from the south are ancestors of slave catchers. 

Call and demand further investigation into these 4 deaths, we want the truth!! ✊🏾😩

#AManWasLynchedYesterday #AManWasLynched #MyBlackOutdoorJoy #BlackHistoryMonth
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