Who We Are
Dearverse Media Productions is an independent cultural media company founded by Bambina Dear. We create, publish, preserve, and amplify diverse stories across publishing, digital archiving, women's media, and graphic storytelling. Everything we build centers cultural truth and creative freedom.
Meet Our Solar System
Dearversity L.A.B.s
Dearversity L.A.B.s — Living Archive Bastions — is our most ambitious project. We are building an independent library — privately owned, publicly accessible, and free from government interference — dedicated to preserving banned books, historical records, and information certain institutions would rather suppress. Our digital archive is currently under construction — working to house collections across African diaspora history, queer literature, indigenous knowledge, and creative works that defy easy categorization.
Because no voice should ever be hidden from the people. And no story should ever be erased from history.
When the world tries to take away diversity, we give you Dearversity.
#DearversityInEveryStory
LipRun
LipRun is our women's culture publication — and we are not here to be polite about it. We cover sex, culture, and politics the way it should always have been covered: with confidence, without apology, and with the kind of honesty that only comes from people who have stopped pretending the world isn't on fire.
We are by women, for women — and we mean that broadly. Our editorial scope is global, our voices are diverse, and our topics range from reproductive rights and sexology to finance, feminism, dating, and the political systems that shape all of it. We celebrate women. We hold them accountable. We say the thing out loud.
LipRun lives across Substack, TikTok, Instagram, and wherever unfiltered conversations are happening. Our community — the Loose Lips, the Lip Runners, and the Lip Smackers — show up every week ready to talk about what everyone else is tiptoeing around. Two sips in. Saying it with their whole chest.
LipRun — Because lips speak volumes.
WTF is Bambina?!
WTF is Bambina?! is our founder's love letter to the world and proof that you don't need a trust fund, a team, or a perfectly laid plan to show up for your own life. Bambina Dear — author, Blerd, AfrоLatina, and solo nomad — picked up her savings, her dreams, and her overstuffed baggage, and decided to find out what happens when you bet on yourself with everything you have.
WTFIB is a travel vlog and ezine series documenting Bambina's journey country by country — the beauty, the budget breakdowns, the cultural discoveries, the awkward Spanish, and the honest reality of building a media company from cafés and hostels across the world. Each issue is a dispatch from wherever she is, written for the women who want to go somewhere and haven't left yet, and for the ones already on their way.
She is not a tourist. She is a student of the world. Putting Dearversity in every story - starting with her own.
Dearverse Publishing
Dearverse Publishing is the literary home of Dearverse Media Productions. We publish works that speak to the soul and spark the imagination across two distinct imprints. Starlily is our first imprint — focused on telling stories of healing, personal growth, and self-discovery. Cosmic Petals is our worldbuilding imprint — covering all things Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery and more.
Our debut catalog includes Dear Wallflower, Bambina Dear's heartfelt poetry collection, and Patricia Poindexter's A Mother's Journey.
As we work toward restructuring and expanding our publishing division, we are proud to extend our expertise to the wider community of independent authors through professional manuscript editing services. Whether your manuscript needs surface-level polish or a complete rebuild, our editing services are a natural extension of what we have always done — championing stories and helping them reach their full potential. These services are here to stay.
Get In Touch
For editorial services, use the form on our Publishing & Editorial Services page. For assistance with online orders, click the contact button below. For everything else — partnerships, press, referrals, or general inquiries — reach us at info@dearversemedia.com.