Podcasts about emergent strategy shaping change

Send us a textAs things feel more chaotic in the world, there is a common sentiment that this is an important time to focus on community.  I hear a lot about community in the circles I am in, but what does it actually mean to be in community?  And how can one create or foster community wherever they are at in the process?  These are some of the questions that Chandra Cantor, a mom, yoga teacher, life coach, and passionate community builder, shares on this episode.   The conversation delves into what community means, how it manifests, and its critical role in human well-being. Chandra emphasizes the significance of being open, vulnerable, and appreciative, while also discussing practical ways to create and nurture a sense of belonging. Listeners will learn about the spiritual and practical aspects of community, including overcoming isolation, embracing diversity, resolving conflicts, and offering mutual support. The episode provides valuable action steps for anyone looking to enhance their sense of connection and build a thriving community around them.In this episode:Chandra's Background and Passion for CommunityThe Importance of CommunityCreating and Fostering CommunityKey Ingredients for a Healthy CommunityNavigating Conflict and Differences in CommunitySpiritual and Individual Aspects of CommunityPractical Steps to Build Community“Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to the people and place around you? Not after or because you do some particular thing, but simply the miracle of your life. And that the people around you, and the place(s), have contributions as well? Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?Are you actively practicing generosity and vulnerability in order to make the connections between you and others clear, open, available, durable? Generosity here means giving of what you have without strings or expectations attached. Vulnerability means showing your needs.”― Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Connect with Chandra: www.steppingintobalance.comChandra Cantor Yoga on FBpatreon.com/chandrayogaChandra Cantor on You TubeMy resources:Deep Rest MeditationNourished For Resilience Workbook Book a free Exploratory CallFind me at www.nourishednervoussystem.comand @nourishednervoussytem on Instagram

In this episode, Rose reads a portion of Adrienne Maree Brown's book Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. You can check out our growing list of songs on our podcast playlist at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RVqhqSInWEDLzY2PWncEN?si=aAcBbnFNSoy3uOhVO0gHwQ&pi=u-YCFXXYJVSGKf (Soundtrack of Black Aliveness) To get some of the books that we mention on the podcast, please check out our growing collection here: https://bookshop.org/lists/black-and-alive-a-black-coffee-theology-reading-list? https://bookshop.org/lists/black-and-alive-a-black-coffee-theology-reading-list? Please check Rose's substack out at https://agentlelanding.substack.com/ If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app.  You can also support financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out Robert's writing at: https://musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.

354. How to Make Loving Corrections with adrienne maree brown adrienne marie brown returns to discuss how to make loving corrections with the people in your life.  Discover:  -The three essential human needs—and what happens when we don't get them -How to break free from the need to be “good” and find something better -What defines a loving correction (and what doesn't) -Why acting as a protector for others reveals deep truths about your own healing journey On the guest: adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through writing, music, and podcasts, nurturing Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice. adrienne's work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation. adrienne is the author/editor of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Grievers; and Maroons. adrienne's latest book Loving Corrections is available now. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you ever feel the need to “gather” someone online? Or maybe someone in your life? It's perfectly human! But maybe we should think twice about how we go about making that correction - and how we can make it in the most loving way possible. To help you and us do that, we've got adrienne maree brown back on the pod! Following her 2020 visit to Getting Curious, adrienne is here to talk all about the ideas in her new book, Loving Corrections, and help all of us give and receive feedback better! adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public. Through her writing, which includes short- and long-form fiction, nonfiction, spells, tarot decks and poetry; her music, which includes songwriting, singing and immersive musical rituals; and her podcasts, including How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and The Emergent Strategy Podcast, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas, frameworks, networks and practices for transformation. Her work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation, her path of teaching somatics, her love of Octavia E Butler and visionary fiction, and her work as a doula. She is the author/editor of several published texts including “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change,” “Changing Worlds” (2017), “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good” (2019), and “Grievers” (2021) and “Maroons” (2023), the first two novellas of her speculative fiction trilogy. Her newest book, “Loving Corrections,” will be published in August 2024. After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC. She has been featured in all types of media, from “We Can Do Hard Things” with Glennon Doyle and “On Being with Krista Tippett,” to New York Magazine's The Cut, atmos, Vulture, Shondaland, Lifekit, BBC, Bon Apétit, and many others -- including of course on our show back in 2020. Her new book: Loving Corrections, is out now. Related materials:  "The Four Parts of Accountability & How To Give A Genuine Apology" by Mia Mingus You can follow adrienne on Instagram @adriennemareebrown and on adrienne's website adriennemareebrown.net. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producer is Chris McClure. Our editor & engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com& Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with adrienne maree brown which originally aired in April 2019.adrienne maree brown begins this week's episode by asking, “If we were not ashamed of our pleasure, what would become possible? If we started to understand that pleasure is something that everyone should have access to, what would become possible?”This week on For The Wild, we are exploring how to embody pleasure in its many forms with adrienne maree brown. Drawing upon Audre Lorde's seminal publication, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, adrienne maree brown's latest book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, reiterates how once we truly know the pleasure of being alive, suffering becomes unimaginable. Above all, pleasure resides in our body, but many of us seem to forget this through lifetimes of social conditioning, performative identities, and the multitude of ways in which capitalism and patriarchy have filtered love and desire through the lens of ownership. Yet, whether we are cognizant of this or not, our pleasure and our liberation remain inextricably bound together.adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good and co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. adrienne facilitates social justice and Black liberation through the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, the Detroit Narrative Agency and is part of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. She and her sister, Autumn Brown, co-host the How to Survive the End of the World podcast. Music by The Boom Booms, JB the First Lady, and Small Town.Support the show

Guest Malvika Sharan Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard has a conversation with guest Malvika Sharan, a senior research associate and open source community manager at The Turing Way. Malvika gives fascinating insights into the journey and rationale behind The Turing Way, which is a data science guide and community collaborative project, seeking to make data science more open, accessible, and inclusive. The Turing Way is also much more than its curated guides, serving as a space for enthusiasts to exchange ideas and contribute to the project. Richard and Malvika dig deep into the importance of effective recognition for contributions, Malvika's commitment to financial compensation within the constraints of the system, along with the persistence of volunteerism in open source work. Amid her busy year, Malvika is preparing for this chapter of The Turing Way's journey to enter an exciting 2024 and 2025 phase as they look to engage more directly with organizations that haven't yet adopted open source collaborative practices advocated by The Turing Way. Press download not to hear more! [00:01:17] Malvika explains The Turing Way as a collaborative book project on open science and data science, founded by Kristie Whittaker in 2019, which has evolved significantly with her as co-lead. Also, The Turing Way started as a book on GitHub aimed at making data science more open. [00:04:09] Richard clarifies that The Turing Way is a Jupyter book, and Malvika discusses the evolution of The Turing Way and its role in advocating for open source practices within data science projects. [00:05:55] Richard asks why there isn't a specific guide for open source, and Malvika explains that The Turing Way integrates open source principles throughout and addresses concerns about open practices in sensitive areas. [00:08:07] Richard inquires about the name, The Turing Way, an Malvika recounts its origin relating to the Alan Turing Institute and the idea of reproducibility. [00:09:26] The discussion turns to community involvement in The Turing Way. Malvika talks about different types of community events and how individuals become part of the community through collaboration and self-identification. [00:12:15] The concept of “emergent strategy” from the book by Adrienne Maree Brown is explained as an influence on the community aspect of The Turing Way. [00:13:13] Richard inquires about the sustainability of The Turing Way as an open source project and its funding and staff structure. Malvika explains that it's funded by the Alan Turing Institute and discusses the Institute's support and staff dedicated to the project, including a new project manager. [00:16:16] Richard asks how The Turing Way collects feedback and demonstrates its impact on sustainability for projects that use it. Malvika shares experiences of community members using The Turing Way to influence their organizations and mentions collaborations like The Environmental Data Science book project. [00:18:03] Malvika talks about how she launched The Turing Way Practitioners Hub to gather and share evidence. [00:19:42] Richard questions what it means to adopt The Turing Way, and Malvika clarifies that it refers to adopting the practices of open and collaborative data science. [00:20:16] They address the breadth versus depth of The Turing Way's content and the idea of creating sector-specific resources. [00:24:00] Malvika speaks about outreach through talks and workshops, and highlights the diversity of narratives within The Turing Way community, such as activism for [00:26:20] Richard notices the lack of Welsh language resources in The Turing Way and wonders why it's not included. Malvika acknowledges this as a shortcoming due to underrepresentation in the community. [00:27:19] How does The Turing Way support careers of its contributors? Malvika talks about the importance of recognition, mentioning the All Contributors Bot for immediate recognition, chairing working groups, and listing significant contributors in the book. [00:30:31] Richard asks how The Turing Way supports contributors financially. Malvika stresses the value of volunteerism for skill-building and personal growth. She also talks about The Turing Way's efforts in compensating contributors through grants and mentions the limitations of institutional funding structures. [00:33:58] Malvika tells us where you can find updates and involvement opportunities on The Turing Way, and where you can follow her online. Quotes [00:05:08] “The project itself is built on a lot of open source technology.” [00:06:00] “The Turing Way is a sneaky open source.” [00:09:48] “Sometimes it happens that you don't think you're a part of a community, but you are part of a community, it's just someone didn't tell you that you are part of the community.” [00:24:27] “I think of The Turing Way as an extension of digital commons that people should use and fare, but also maintain and support.” Spotlight [00:35:31] Richard's spotlight is the Montpelier Library in Montpelier, Ohio. [00:36:11] Malvika's spotlight is Laurah Ondari, a wonderful podcaster, and her podcast, The Science In Real Life. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) SustainOSS Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/tags/sustainoss) Open Collective-SustainOSS (Contribute) (https://opencollective.com/sustainoss) Richard Littauer Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@richlitt) Malvika Sharan X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/malvikasharan?lang=en) Malvika Sharan Website (https://malvikasharan.github.io/) The Turing Way (https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/index.html) The Turing Way start page (https://the-turing-way.start.page/) The Turing Way X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/turingway?lang=en) Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown (https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Strategy-Shaping-Change-Changing/dp/1849352607/ref=asc_df_1849352607/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312519927002&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1321696698792624233&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010767&hvtargid=pla-499608628957&psc=1&mcid=809f2bb32586374195942cf2c6e2aca4&gclid=CjwKCAiAvoqsBhB9EiwA9XTWGfN8LbnCRl97vsL9BOr4CpRodcEJm1tCxlv4gDnFpCXz1DpueMFthoCuQsQAvD_BwE) The Alan Turing Institute AI UK (https://www.turing.ac.uk/) The Environmental Data Science book-GitHub (https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/environmental-ds-book) The Turing Way Practitioners Hub (https://www.turing.ac.uk/turing-way-practitioners-hub) Emergent Strategy: Organizing for Social Justice (Forte Labs) (https://fortelabs.com/blog/emergent-strategy-organizing-for-social-justice/) All Contributors (https://allcontributors.org/) Montpelier Public Library (https://montpelierpubliclibrary.oplin.org/) Laurah Ondari LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurah-ondari-749175b6/) The Science In Real Life Podcast (https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/the-science-in-real-life-podcast/4513182) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Malvika Sharan.

Are you capable of being satisfied? Today, adrienne maree brown helps us uncover:  How to find beauty and connection in the everyday; How to stop wasting your time on things that don't feel good; Why the greatest risk of life is also where its preciousness comes from;  How, through the discipline of pleasure, we can ALL be satisfied.  About adrienne: adrienne maree brown is a pleasure activist, writer, and radical imaginist who grows healing ideas in public through writing, music, and podcasts. adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas, frameworks, networks and practices for transformation. adrienne's work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation. adrienne is the author/editor of several published texts including Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Grievers; and Maroons. After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland, and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC. TW: @adriennemaree IG: @adriennemareebrown To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There is something truly unique and complex about coal mining communities in Appalachia, and Atlas Charles has experienced this firsthand. Growing up queer, nonbinary, and autistic in the Cumberland mountains of Southwest Virginia and southwestern West Virginia, Atlas understands the coexistence of hardship and beauty. Today, Atlas uses their systems leadership skills to lead the complex work of co-creating thriving communities that balance economy and collective well-being. Their work centers equity, anti-oppression, and regeneration, while believing in and harnessing the existent wisdom a community already has. Creating new Appalachian economies means honoring other people's experiences, showing up hand in hand, and building together a web of local anti-oppressive economies. This is the work Atlas does. Their heart for the oppressed and for creating safe space for all people to be seen, heard, and thrive is palpable. This is our first Yes! We Rise Episode of 2023. Welcome! LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED Be sure to check out more information on Atlas Charles along with the work they do at Rural Support Partners and with Economic Development Greater East. Additionally they were the Board President of Partners for Stronger Communities through 2022. Read some books that were influential to Atlas' work including: We Make The Road By Walking By Myles Horton and Paulo Freire and The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed by Paulo Freire. Some other highly recommended books from Atlas include: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown, and Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. The Yes! We Rise podcast is produced by Dialogue + Design Associates, Podcasting For Creatives, with music by Drishti Beats. Follow the We Rise podcast on Facebook and Instagram. Please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast so we can continue spreading our message far and wide. Find our email list at the website: www.yeswerise.org. Thanks for listening. The Yes! We Rise podcast features solutions-seekers, change-makers, and those creating a resilient future. We share stories and strategies to inspire action to build collective resilience and community transformation. To create change, people need to feel like they belong and that they are part of a growing movement. They need to know their voice matters and that they have the inspiration, agency and ability to transform their lives and their communities. They are the key to a resilient future.     From the Navajo Nation to the mountains of Appalachia, incredible work is being done by community members and leaders. Change is often sparked by inspiration: seeing what others have done, especially in similar situations and places. People see that when someone looks like them or lives in a place like theirs, and has created real, true and lasting change, change that will allow their granddaughters and grandsons to thrive — they begin to imagine what might be possible for them.  No longer waiting for someone else to come and save them, they realize they are the ones they have been waiting for.  But what creates that spark? What creates that inspiration?  Learning through stories and examples, feeling a sense of agency and belonging, and getting fired up to kick ass creates that spark.  We Rise helps community leaders and members learn to forge a new path toward creating resilience and true transformation. One person at a time, one community at a time, one region at a time, the quilt of transformation can grow piece by piece until resilience becomes the norm instead of the exception. Together, we rise.

In this episode, we learn about the racial and gender justice mission of the YWCA and how the YWCA in Madison, Wisconsin, uses their values to deliver on that mission in their community. Join me as we talk with Gery Paredes Vásquez, the Director of Racial and Gender Justice at the YWCA Madison. Gery reminds us that we must first acknowledge each other as human beings in our full complexity and then build relationships as a practice and container where growth, healing, transformation, and liberation can happen.Full Transcript Here.Learn more about the YWCA MadisonLearn more about their Summit and purchase tickets. Dates for the next summit are 28-30 September, 2022.To learn more about equity work in Madison, you can also listen to our episode: Finding Joy in Working Toward Equity - with Kristy Kumar.Books mentioned in our discussion:Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by Adrienne Maree Brown (Links to my Bookshop.org site)When Blood and Bones Cry Out: Journeys Through the Soundscape of Healing and Reflection, by John Paul Lederach & Angela Jill Lederach (Links to my Bookshop.org site) Gery Paredes Vásquez Bio:Gery Paredes Vásquez (ella, tu, she, her) is a lifelong practitioner and collaborator for intersectional justice, healing and collective liberation. She is currently the Race and Gender Equity Director at YWCA Madison, in which role she collaborates with her beloved team and a growing community of artists, advocates, organizers, educators and practitioners in the co-creation of offerings such as the Racial Justice Series Community Series, YWCA Madison's annual Racial Justice Summit, as well as intersectional race-based offerings such as the BIPOC Healing Justice and Co-Liberation Series. In her work, she also provides collaborative consulting services for equity to organizations via YWCA Madison's Creating Equitable Organizations partnership program.As many Latinx people, Gery was born to families of mixed ethnicities and races due to colonization: Indigenous Quechua, Aymara and Guarani with Spanish. This reality shapes her personal journey of learning, unlearning and healing as well as continues to inspire her work for intersectional justice and collective liberation every day.

Hey friend, it's time to reclaim your most valuable asset.Most of us spend our time on autopilot. Some of us have been ashamed feeling like we're always behind or doing something wrong by trying to fit into the neurotypical 9-5. Yes, we exist in a world of 24/7 distraction that sustains this autopilot behavior by offering a never-ending stream of things to do. But there's more to the story. Neuro-emergent is a ripe new word for the [who] and [how] those with turbo-brains are in the world! According to Adrienne Maree Brown, in her book Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds: emergence “is fractal, adaptive, interdependent & decentralized, non-linear & iterative, resilient & transformative, justice-oriented,creating more possibilities.”Emergence “emphasizes critical connections over critical mass, building authentic relationships, listening with all the senses of the body and the mind.” I've been looking for a word that describes what I am, rather than what I divergefrom (i.e. neuro-divergent). Emergence resonates so deeply with how we naturally live with the seasons of nature and life as we continue to re-birth our states of consciousness, into full bloom: THerefore, we are Neuro-emergent.It's possible to design a different world, a world that actually works for you, uniquely. On your time.Once we understand our differences better, we can begin to design around them. The concept of TIME is a key starting place and working higher, not harder by getting into flow.Listen up!

Show description Welcome to Dreaming in Color, a show that provides a platform for BIPOC social change leaders to candidly share how their lived experiences (personal and professional) have prepared them to lead their work and drive the impact we all seek.  In this episode, our guest is Ashindi Maxton. She is a Co-founder and former Executive Director of the Donors of Color Network, an organization that offers a philanthropic and political home for high-net-worth donors of color committed to building power for and across communities of color. From racial equity and voting rights to climate justice and income inequality, Ashindi has had her finger on the pulse of where and importantly how we need to do and be better. Join in as we speak with Ashindi on bringing community and confidence to her work, leaning into healing and collective efforts, and demanding accountability and action. Jump straight into: (00:21) - Introducing Ashindi Maxton: Co-Founder of the Donors of Color Network and a truly brilliant mind. (01:47) - Ashindi pulls inspiration from a poem by Eve Ewing, Buddhism, and the Twitterverse. (06:32) - The ability to heal: Takeaways from Ashindi's early path in politics. (10:19) - “I know how this reality trickles down”: Experiences and principles that have driven Ashindi's career. (16:28) - ”Walk into the place like you own it”: On community, a sense of belonging in the social sector and the effectiveness of the Climate Justice Funders Pledge. (23:24) - A battle of imagination: Family stories and dystopian fictions that bring lessons on how to achieve victories for social justice.  (32:46) - New suns and surviving the end of the world. Episode resources Connect with Ashindi Maxton through https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashindi-maxton-970a5b24/ (LinkedIn) and https://www.instagram.com/ashindi/?hl=en (Instagram) Learn more about https://www.donorsofcolor.org/our-team/ (Donors of Color Network) including the https://climate.donorsofcolor.org/ (Climate Justice Funders Pledge) Check out https://www.octaviabutler.com/work (some of the written works) by Octavia E. Butler Read https://eveewing.com/electricarches (Electric Arches) by Eve L. Ewing Read https://www.amazon.com/Peace-Every-Step-Mindfulness-Everyday/dp/0553351397 (Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life) by Thich Nhat Hanh Read https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Inequalities-Children-Americas-Schools/dp/0770435688 (Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools) by Jonathan Kozol Read https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html (Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Words) by Adrienne Maree Brown and listen to the podcast https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/ (How to Survive the End of the World) hosted by Adrienne and her sister Autumn Brown Learn more about https://colorofchange.org/ (Color of Change) Thank you for listening to Dreaming in Color ahttps://www.bridgespan.org/ ( Bridgespan) supportedhttps://www.studiopodsf.com/ ( StudioPod) production. Nicole Genova is the Show Coordinator and Teresa Buchanan is the Show Producer. The production team from The Bridgespan Group includes Cora Daniels, Michael Borger, Christina Pistorius, and Britt Savage. Additional music and editing provided byhttps://nodalab.com/ ( nodalab).

Our culture has oddly conflicting views about pleasure. In this episode, author adrienne maree brown explores the importance of pleasure and how it changes your experience of the world. adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit.In this conversation we talked about:What is pleasure activismThe role of sex and drugsWhy we should say yes moreHow to be in touch with our sense of “enough”The role of gratitude The line between commitment and detachmentHow she defines authentic happinessHer self-description as “a recovering self-righteous organizer,” and why self-righteousness actually leads to powerlessnessContent Warning: Discussions of sex and drugs. Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/adrienne-maree-brown-458See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

adrienne maree brown joins Jordan to talk about the moment she learned what her style of leadership looked like, about the power of saying things aloud, and about her love of Octavia Butler and finding her way to writing fiction. MENTIONED: The League of Young Voters (or The League of Pissed-Off Voters) AK Press Left Turn Magazine's 2010 issue "Other Worlds are Possible: Visionary Fiction, Culture, and Organizing" edited by Walidah Imarisha Octavia E. Butler's archive at the Huntington Library in Pasadena adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to rate/review/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Below the Radar, host Am Johal is joined by adrienne maree brown, organizer and author of nonfiction activism explorations Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy, and more. Together, they discuss brown's history as a community organizer and facilitator, the powers of solidarity and pleasure in activism, and some of her inspirations—from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler to the beauty of nature itself. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/166adrienne-maree-brown.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/166-adrienne-maree-brown.html Photo credit: Anjali Pinto Resources: - adrienne's website – https://adriennemareebrown.net/ - adrienne's Twitter – https://twitter.com/Adriennemaree - Octavia's Brood – https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html - Pleasure Activism – https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html - Emergent Strategy – https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html - Audre Lorde's “The Uses of the Erotic” essay — https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf - Public Reading and Dialogue on Octavia Butler and the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMZbgo0XZA Bio: adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Cite this Episode: Johal, Am. “The Pleasure in Liberation – with adrienne maree brown” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, March 29, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/166-adrienne-maree-brown

What does a just climate future look like? In this bonus episode Ayana and guest adrienne maree brown discuss Imagine 2200, Fix's climate-fiction contest, which recognizes stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope. Turning towards fueling the imagination, this episode touches on stewarding a just future and the value of presence with ourselves, each other, and the movements we dedicate ourselves to. We are in a battle for our attention and for our imaginations. The winner will determine the future of the climate and of humanity. Facing this reality, and the reality of a changing climate is not easy, but despair around this can bring us closer to the earth and to each other when it is used as a learning tool. In the shift from panic to practice, visionary fiction is vital medicine, and adrienne guides us to stretch our minds to see a future beyond what the confines of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism tell us is possible. adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables, and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Music by Nia Simone and The Mysterious They. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

MPH candidate Molly Weber joins Omana today to discuss the book “Emergent Strategy” by adrienne maree brown. In this conversation, they explore the principes and elements of emergence and how to apply it to our ever changing world.

We interview adrienne maree brown, author, Octavia E. Butler scholar, podcast host, and doula, about her new novella Grievers. We also get into the connection between organizing and speculative fiction, amb's deep love of Butler and Ursula LeGuin, and the power of creativity. Don't worry, we also dish on queerness and it's transformative power in fiction and life.Learn more about amb at: adriennemareebrown.netJoin them on Twitter at: @adriennemaree and Instagram at @adriennemareebrownPick up Grievers from AK Press.adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit.

In this episode, adrienne maree brown discusses her recent book: Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation. We talk about the structure of the book, Black feminist wisdom, breathwork as a facilitation practice, the importance of setting boundaries, the need to remain open to new ideas, and moving with grief. adrienne maree brown is the author of Grievers (the first in her novella series with the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Meditation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Durham. Episode Resources & Notes Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation Grievers Adrienne maree brown on IG Credits adrienne maree brown photo by anjali pinto Created and hosted by Kim Wilson and Brian Sonenstein Edited by Ellis Maxwell Website & volunteers managed by Victoria Nam Theme music by Jared Ware Support Beyond Prisons Visit our website at beyond-prisons.com Support our show and join us on Patreon. Check out our other donation options as well. Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Play Join our mailing list for updates on new episodes, events, and more Send tips, comments, and questions to beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com Kim Wilson is available for speaking engagements and to facilitate workshops. Please contact beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com for more information Twitter: @Beyond_Prison Facebook:@beyondprisonspodcast Instagram:@beyondprisons

adrienne maree brown is a social justice facilitator and the bestselling author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds;  and We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice. She cohosts the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables podcasts. In this episode of Insights at the Edge (which first aired as part of our Walking Together series), Tami Simon speaks with adrienne about the concept of "fractal responsibility" and how the world changes as we change ourselves; engaging in "critical relationships" and finding the courage to hold ourselves accountable; cultivating 1,000 percent honesty and trust; figuring out your right work—or what adrienne calls "your most elegant next step"; pleasure activism and "reclaiming your erotic yes"; holding the grief and suffering that seem beyond our capacity; and imagining a future that works for the majority of us.

Call my girls and put 'em all on a spaceship! In this episode, Alyssa and Brendane are joined by the co-hosts of the amazing Lose Your Sister podcast, Jordan and Liberty. Together, we unpack Black feminist futurity and temporality, the end of the/this world, community, and Squid Game (no spoilers, promise!). What's the Word? Futurity. We explain what people mean by futurity, how in the Black feminist tradition futurity is created through visionary work and radical speculation, and why humans are always living in the past. What We're Reading. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. We're joined by Liberty and Jordan of the Lose Your Sister podcast to discuss age in our "apocacryptic" world and adultification of Black girls, whether Butler is "clairvoyant" or simply sees clearly, the recursivity of the past and time, and the importance of building community with more in common than shared pain. What In the World?! Together we discuss the ways we're closer to Butler's Parable world than we think: billion shellfish that cooked in the ocean, supply chain and labor shortages and the WI senate bill that will allow under-16s to work until 11pm, housing scarcity, and the anti-capitalist? parable Squid Games. Follow Lose Your Sister on Twitter and Instagram! Their podcast episodes are available on Spotify, Apple, and Google Podcasts. Check out their Learning Preserves and episode reading lists here. Liked what you heard? Donate here! Discussed this week: Parable of the Sower (Octavia E. Butler, 1993) Black Feminist Futurity: From Survival Rhetoric to Radical Speculation (Caitlin Gunn, 2019) Marking Indigeneity: The Tongan Art of Sociospatial Relations (Tēvita O. Ka'ili, 2017) Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (adrienne maree brown, 2017) Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Sharon P. Holland, 2000) Captive Maternal Love: Octavia Butler and Sci-Fi Family Values (Joy James, 2015) Wisconsin Senate approves longer work hours for teenagers (AP News, 2021) Extreme heat cooked mussels, clams and other shellfish alive on beaches in Western Canada (CNN, 2021) ZD merch available here and the syllabus for ZD 201 is here! Let us know what you thought of the episode @zorasdaughters on Instagram and @zoras_daughters on Twitter! Transcript will be available on our website here.

This week, Sah welcomes adrienne maree brown. adrienne is the author of Grievers (the first in her novella series with the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Meditation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Durham.http://adriennemareebrown.net/https://www.akpress.org/In this episode, Sah and adrienne discuss...adrienne's spiritual philosophyCompassion and doing the workadrienne's latest book GrieversFacing mortality and grief, or “looking at your ghosts”Post-capitalism and pleasure activismCommunity, and charity vs. redistribution of resourcesand more....✨✨✨This episode is brought to you by Pildora, a brand that offers sustainable wellness, beauty, and fashion products that better our lives. As a Spiritually Sassy Show listener, Pildora is offering an exclusive 20% off your first orders using DISCOUNT CODE sah20 at Pildora.com.✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:

Help produce Basic Folk by contributing at basicfolk.com/donate!This special episode of Basic Folk features Allison Russell, Jake Blount, Kaïa Kater, and guest host Lizzie No in a roundtable conversation about Black artists in folk music. Black musicians are more visible than ever in the roots music space, but they continue to face unique challenges from tokenizing placements on festival lineups to outright racism in the press.During this hour of Basic Folk we tackled questions like “under what circumstances is it useful for Black artists to self-categorize based on identity?,” “how can we respond to bigotry without wasting our time justifying our worthiness in the roots space?,” “what advice would we offer to up-and-coming Black folk musicians?,” and “how can we bring a holistic understanding of consent to our relationships in the music industry?”Musicians talked about in this episode:Our Native DaughtersAmythyst KiahAdia VictoriaYolaMali ObomsawinValerie JuneCrys MatthewsThe SojournersThe Carolina Chocolate DropsRhiannon GiddensHubby JenkinsPo'GirlNdidi OnukwuluKyshonaNon-musicians talked about:Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing WorldsCaroline Randall WilliamsAndrea WilliamsResources:The Black OpryCountry QueerCountry Soul Songbook Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

It is important for me to pay homage to those people who have impacted my life. The Audre Lorde's, the Oprah's, the Brene Brown's. Viewing their work and seeing them be honest and free, inspired my personal journey of finding myself and my voice. So this episode is extra special because today's guest is the one and only adrienne maree brown. She is a writer, podcast host, and organizer, and we have an amazing conversation about life, acceptance, and connection. adrienne describes how growing up in a biracial home, and splitting her time between the U.S. and Germany, opened her up to learning different cultures and ways of being. She talks about the interconnectedness of human nature, and how she manages her influence on others. And, she expresses the importance of listening to your body and making choices that will benefit you. Check out her website https://adriennemareebrown.net/ to learn more! Guest Bio: adrienne maree brown is the author of Grievers (the first in her novella series with the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Meditation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of The Emergent Strategy Podcast, How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables. adrienne is rooted in Durham. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Financially Naked: Stories from The Financial Gym, our host is Bevin, a Lexington, KY-based Financial Trainer, and she is joined by Gym client Christina Cotham of Formula Fund ATX. They are going to talk about the mutual aid group Christina has started within her community to help connect families with the baby formula they need, and how she did it! “Mutual aid is when everyday people get together to meet each other's needs, with the shared understanding that the systems we live in are not meeting our needs and that we can meet them together, right now, without having to pressure power structures to do the right thing.” -What is Mutual Aid? - UGA Social Work   Resources Mentioned Austin Mutual Aid Facebook Group   Random Three Questions What is your favorite phone app?  Breathe (Google Play, Apple Store) If it was your last night on earth, what would your final meal be?Mixed feast of Asian dumplings What is a book that has inspired you? Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown   Connect with Christina & Formula Fund ATX Facebook: facebook.com/formulafundatx Instagram: @formulafund_atx Linktree: @formulafundatx E-mail: formulafundatx@gmail.com   Meet The Trainer Bevin Morgan  

In Colors of Recovery episode six, Zina interviews Erica Woodland, Founding Director of the National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network. Hear him discuss the creation & mission of NQTTCN, and explore the complex transformation treatment professionals and institutions must undergo to support and liberate LGBTQ+ patients of color. Resources: Erica Woodland is a black queer/genderqueer facilitator, consultant and healing justice practitioner born and raised in Baltimore, MD. He is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker committed to working at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation. For the past 18 years, Erica has worked as a community organizer, case manager, therapist, coach, facilitator, trainer, social worker, program director, researcher and clinical supervisor with youth, people of color and LGBTQ people across the country. He has done extensive work in prisons, jails, group homes, psychiatric facilities, schools, non-profit organizations, community-based clinics and with grassroots groups giving him a wide range of experience to draw from in his practice. Erica is the Founding Director of the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. He also has a private practice where he provides psychotherapy and clinical supervision with a focus on harm reduction, intergenerational trauma and resilience, grief, and family therapy.Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brownWhite Supremacy Culture website by Tema OkunWhite Supremacy Culture characteristics PDF by Tema OkunThank you to our episode sponsors, Shari Hampton and Ester Nicholson!Shari Hampton is an anti-racist consultant whose trainings are specific to organizations and treatment centers committed to anti-racism work. Her website is sharihampton.com.Ester Nicholson is the founder and author of Soul Recovery. She is also an anti-racism healer and a SHE RECOVERS Foundation coach. Her website is www.esternicholson.com.Have feedback? Contact us at info@naatp.org

Rachel Economy is a poet-performer, ecological educator, design-thinking strategist, and gardener. She is the owner of Index For The Next World, an online hub of story-publication, skills-education, and human-centered design consulting for those seeking to build a world that thrives. Rachel holds a master's degree in Social Innovation and Sustainability from Goddard Graduate Institute (GGI), with a concentration in Transformative Language Arts and a master's thesis exploring narrative re-design as a part of social change and ecological justice. She teaches gardening, needs-based design, systems thinking, writing & performance, permaculture, group facilitation, maker & homesteader crafts, and embodied nature connection skills to all ages, in rural and urban settings.   We talked to Rachel about early moments in gardening, and her participatory relationship with the land and plants. Rachel's way of doing design thinking and systems thinking includes thinking about a whole ecology, whether she's working with organizations or gardens: whose land are we on and what repair needs to be made with the original inhabitants; and asking and receiving permission from plants and people. She says, “Goddard let me pay attention to story and ecological systems at the same time.”   Rachel's poetry chapbook, "The Origins of Streams," was published by Finishing Line Press in January 2021. On poetry Rachel says, “Poetry is an inherently sensory form, and therefore an ecological form.” You can find that chapbook, the Index for the Next World issues, and more of Rachel's writing and work at www.indexforthenextworld.com.   Recommendations:    Books and Authors: Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good   Organizations: Queer Nature: https://www.queernature.org/

Who do you trust? Are universities trustworthy? Professors? What about students? Philosopher Tony Laden (UIC Chicago) is writing a book about democracy. He sees higher ed as a way to think about trust networks and broader questions about how we talk to each other. Episode transcript Citations (and further reading!): Binder, Amy J., and Kate Wood. Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 2014. Brown, Adrienne M, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2017. Jack, Anthony Abraham. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Laden, Anthony. "Teaching, Indoctrination and Trust." (forthcoming in Academic Ethics Today, ed. by Steven Cahn (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022). Lao-tzu and Stephen Mitchell. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1994. Nguyen, C. Thi (forthcoming). "Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude." Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Westover, Tara, Educated: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2018. Special thanks to Grace Welsh, Carrie Peredo, and Natnael Shiferaw for reading the student excerpts. This episode was produced by Carrie Welsh, with help from Natnael Shiferaw, Harry Brighouse, and Tony Laden. Recorded January 2021. Music is "Eye on Me" by Ketsa and "Cascades" by Podington Bear.

Ohio RCRC Faith Organizers Kelley Fox and Terry Williams explore the roots of thriving community through Restorative & Transformative Justice by engaging the emergent strategy work of adrienne maree brown. They explain why building a healthy, faithful, justice-centered world without repeating harmful patterns of the past is no easy feat, and also why it's absolutely what must be done by those who seek true liberation. Links to discussed content:  Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds & We Will Not Cancel Us, And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown Livestream video of the first Restorative & Transformative Justice Book Club session Toledo City Council introduces legislation to protect patients at abortion clinics TAKE ACTION: Support Toledo Abortion Patients RSVP for the Restorative Justice Book Club (March 30th, April 27th, May 25th at 3pm-4pm EST)  Music by Korbin Jones

This week on The Final Straw, we feature a conversation between our occasional host, Scott, and adrienne maree brown. For the hour, Scott and adrienne speak about “We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice”, her latest booklet available through AK Press, as well as sci-fi, abolition, harm, accountability and healing. adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. More of their work can be found at adriennemareebrown.net Transcription PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) If you like Scott's interview style, check out their interviews with Kristian Williams on Oscar Wilde and Eli Meyerhoff on higher education and recuperation. Also, to hear an interview with Walidah Imarisha, who co-authored "Octavia's Brood" with adrienne. Transcription and Support So much heartfelt thanks to the folks continuing to send us donations or pick up our merch. We're almost at our goal of sustainability, but still not quite there, but the one-time donations have definitely cushioned that need. If you've got extra dough, check out our Donate/Merch page. As an update on the transcription side of things, we're still rolling forward, comrades have gotten each episode so far this year out and we've imported the text into our blog posts and imported links into our podcast after the fact about a week after the audio release! Also kind soul has done the immense work of making zines and downloadable pdf's of almost all of our already transcribed interviews up until last week! Those posts are updated and linked up to the text and you can find more by checking out the zine category on our site.

My guest this episode is Jamarah Amani. Jamarah is a community midwife who believes in the power of birth and the right of every birthing person to the care and services they need. Jamarah's lived mission is to do her part to build a movement for Birth Justice locally in South FL, nationally in the US, and globally. A community organizer from the age of sixteen, Jamarah has worked with several organizations across the United States, the Caribbean and in Africa on various public health issues, including HIV prevention, maternal and infant mortality, access to emergency contraception and access to midwifery care. She's  currently the director of Southern Birth Justice Network, a non-profit organization working to demand dignity for pregnant and parenting people and to make midwifery and doula care accessible to marginalized communities. Jamarah is also the co-founder of National Black Midwives Alliance and was the 2019 recipient of the Trailblazer Award from the City of Miami.Our conversation centers around Birth justice, racial maternal disparities, the power of alignment, and doing life (and birth) on your own terms. Mentioned in this episode:Statistics on black maternal health Black women are three to four times more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women.Black women are more likely to experience preventable maternal death compared with white women.Black women's heightened risk of pregnancy-related death spans income and education levels.Kira Dixon Johnson, 4Kira4MomsBlack Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains WhySouthern Birth Justice NetworkDonate to Southern Birth Justice Network via PayPalBlack Midwives AllianceLegacy Power Voice: Movements in Black Midwifery (documentary film)How to Survive the End of the World podcast Emergent Strategy : Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brownThe Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee TaylorParable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerTomi Adeyemi Crafts Fantastic Worlds with WordsYour Attention Please - A Hulu PodcastBlack Stories Presents: Your Attention Please

What is your story in the system? This week's #earthconversepodcast conversation is with B. Lorraine Smith - writer, creator and sustainability consultant. She is also a knitter “more of a spinner”, and a weaver – and a long-distance runner. And she brings this into her work and thinking. She is also a bridge, a source finder, kaleidoscope viewer, signal listener, gap filler, fluff finder, idea sharer, questioner and ‘random not-always invited guest' amongst other things. We don't do a linear 'relationship with nature' conversation (for that you can access the episode extras) but she weaves it in her journey. Moreover we explore what is emerging in nature awareness and being on the ‘fertile edges'. Important questions driving her are: 'how much is the problem me? and how can I contribute to solving it? And this leads to supply chains, industrial processes and transparency in corporates and “if I ever want to know an answer to a question, I will ask a farmer”. We also talk of her understanding and exploration of human potential through her own experience of running. What happens when that exponential mindset filters into their drinking fountain? And she relates this to bigger issues such as urbanization and transport planning “what would it look like to be in the city and have those feelings? And we explore the metaphor and art of spinning in systemic change: turning ‘fluff' into something with integrity that is ‘ready to contribute to a structure'. And we finish with compost! “my worms have told me so much about how life works” EPISODE EXTRAS: For a linear bio and a wonderful creative journey (trees, string and running), access Lorraine Smith's presentation (Nov 2020) https://youtu.be/-bTGlqCs4dk To access Lorraine's website, including her bio etc https://www.blorrainesmith.com In particular, her posting ‘The Future is Fluffy' she mentioned (19/9/2019) https://www.blorrainesmith.com/single-post/the-future-is-fluffy Lorraine's Conversation with the St. Lawrence river (Oct 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyhTUleU8AU Harland, Maddy (2017) Fertile Edges: Regenerating Land, Culture and Hope https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/fertile-edges/ Here is the link to the Truth and Reconciliation report: http://www.trc.ca/about-us/trc-findings.html and the info on the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/ We didn't talk explicitly about this but Lorraine recommends: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2107) by Adrienne Maree Brown. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29633913-emergent-strategy Other podcast's: People and Planet (May 2020), Love-Based vs Fear-Based Decision Making in Businesses and Sustainability, https://anchor.fm/people-and-planet/episodes/Love-Based-vs-Fear-Based-Decision-Making-in-Businesses-and-Sustainability--with-B--Lorraine-Smith-ebivn5/a-a1n75ds Nori (October 2018), Lorraine Smith, Reversing Climate Change https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vdJjWIUwFOlrvTIj1VCPo NEW HERE? ABOUT EARTH CONVERSE AND I Hi, I am Penelope Mavor, podcast host and founder of Earth Converse a nature-based leadership collaborative helping leaders have the conversations they need to: with themselves, each other and the earth. Please get in touch for executive coaching and leadership development programmes. https://linktr.ee/EarthConverse Email: info@earthconverse.com And the wind, the trees...

adrienne maree brown is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. To connect with amb become a member to her site- http://adriennemareebrown.net/membersh.../membership-levels/ Payment Links: cash app: $adriennemareedough venmo: adrienne-brown-25 paypal.me/adriennemaree Follow Adrienne on social media at: https://twitter.com/Adriennemaree https://www.instagram.com/adriennemareebrown/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-full-set-podcast/support

Today we are sharing one of the best shows from the archives!  Leslie interviews adrienne maree brown, August 2019: Sacred Sexuality with Leslie Blackburn 10-11 a.m. on Body Mind Spirit Radio. Leslie helps you connect with your sacred sexuality, and welcomes calls during the show. Join her for monthly topics that help you bring peace to you, your body, and your relationships. Bring your curiosity! www.LeslieBlackburn.com adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer, and doula living in Detroit. brown has been facilitating professionally for over fifteen years and has worked with hundreds of organizations at all levels of scale including informal collectives, foundations, national networks and more. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World podcast. Support adrienne by becoming a member of her blog or a donor of Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute. Leslie is sharing monthly podcasts & videocasts freely, if you like what you hear become a patron and support her to bring more creative juice into the world - see details and join for rewards and exclusive content: www.patreon.com/LeslieBlackburn

When I checked in with myself and listened to our community and the pulse of the world right now, what felt right this week was not to publish a new podcast episode, but to point your attention to one of our favorites from the past that features a black woman whose work is devoted to black liberation. In the summer of 2018 I savored every word of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown. (She's since published Pleasure Activism, which became a NY Times bestseller and is also incredibly powerful.) Adrienne dances the intersection between spirituality and social justice work in a way that feels really necessary right now. If you've noticed spiritual leaders (especially white ones) jumping directly to unity and oneness without first acknowledging the 400 years of oppression that needs repair, and it doesn't sit well with you, listen in. If you're feeling immobilized by the reality of the profound limitations of society and our history around race and what it means for you and your people, and you're grappling with how it could possibly be at all connected to spirituality, listen in. Adrienne's words, laughter, and ideas are medicine. In this episode that first came out January 1, 2019, but is no less relevant today, you'll hear: • How Adrienne practices time bending (and how feeling good is part of it) • How she finally answered her calling to be a Doula despite being freaked out by blood • Who she writes for (and who she does not) • How to organize your life around the “YES!” • How to join your spirituality and social justice work together • How to know when to coast and why working hard all the time isn't the way to go • And so much more! Press play and listen to her brilliance (and prepare to laugh!) Thank you for being here in this community. Over the last week it's become ever more clear to me that not all communities are places where people feel safe to be themselves and, even more so, affirmed for all of who they are. While I will never get it perfect and I will continue to be humble and ready to fumble (quoting Erika Hines), you have my commitment that you matter to me and you are welcome here. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for continuing to show up. I'll continue to do the same. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at http://www.katenorthrup.com/podcast.

AN AWESOME WAVE is the collaborative communion of artists/holistic health coaches Marval A Rex and Megan Joy May, who both bring some dreamy and determined double Pisces magic to listeners. We cover and synthesize a wide range of contemporary and ancient topics + healing modalities from the perspective of strengthening our relationship to ourselves, others, and to Spirit, or as Marval likes to call it: DUS, or the Divine Universal System-- where there is infinite energy for empowering and transforming a world that is often clouded in pain and darkness. Each episode is an energizing prayer for better knowledge and intimacy of our bodies, our minds, and our spirits. In this first episode, we dive into Trauma-based Non Violent Communication, as informed by the current astrology of May 2020. Thank you for listening and subscribing! XO M&M Pertinent links from Episode 1 below: Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html The perfect book for learning more about engaged social networks that address intersectional social justice work, community building, looking to the natural world for solutions to current social problems, sci-fi/visionary world co-creation. Adrienne Maree Brown http://adriennemareebrown.net/ adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer, and doula living in Detroit. Meenadchi (Decolonzing Non-Violent Communication) https://www.traumainformednvc.com/ Trauma-informed Bay-Area mediator, artist, and writer working with NVC. Handbook https://cocopress.womenscenterforcreativework.com/Decolonizing-Non-Violent-Communication Easy to follow and apply workbook for Non-Violent Communication with a trauma-informed, decolonized, somatics based lens. Includes worksheets, writing prompts, and activities to do with self and others. Very accessible and well worth the money. The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy by Deb Dana https://www.amazon.com/Polyvagal-Theory-Therapy-Engaging-Regulation/dp/B07QMXBMXD This book is written for the mental health clinician with the patient's understanding in mind. I think it is a useful book for anyone interested in better understanding their nervous system.

“It's not about rearranging the chairs on the deck of the, of the Titanic, uh—because in fact, capitalism is the Titanic. And no matter how you rearrange those chairs, it's going to go down, right? It is doing so as we, as we talk, we've seen this, we have these crises, we've run into the icebergs that play the game of that metaphor. So maybe a little bit of imbalance is what we, what we require. I want to defend a certain kind of, of metaphysical extremism as it were.”—big mike Listen: iTunes, Spotify, Mixcloud | Transcript In this episode: 00:00 How have conceptions of a fixed human ‘nature' limited humans' conception of what's politically possible? How does the history of thinking about human nature reveal how unstable a concept it really is? Why is it so ideologically powerful to make a contingent political system aligned with human nature, be it ordained by biology or God? 14:02 Should we be questioning the existence of human nature? Does that open up certain possibilities for us? 19:38 When we think about utopia, is it an end goal, or a process—the good place which is attainable, or the ‘no-place' which, by definition, never is? What does this subtle difference have to do with how capitalism is foreclosing our sense of time? 33:04 How do we deal with the distance between what may in fact be possible and what appears possible to us based on the facts we have now? What do we do with epistemic systems, like evolutionary biology, that appear to limit what is possible for humans? How do we deal with the brute fact of utopia when it fails? How malleable is reality, really? Further Reading: [on the impossible negotiations of political possibility] adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds & Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

0:08 – Fund Drive Special: Pleasure Activism adrienne maree brown is a social justice facilitator focused on black liberation, a doula/healer, and a pleasure activist. She's the author of the critically acclaimed Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, and her latest book is Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. In conversation with Cat Brooks. Yours for a pledge of $100 to KPFA, or get both books, (Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy) for a pledge of $250. 1:08 – Fund Drive Special: Janis Joplin: Her Life and Music Holly George-Warren is a two-time Grammy nominee and the award-winning author of sixteen books and two biographies. Her new biography is Janis: Her Life and Music. Yours for a pledge of $150 to KPFA, or get the 5 CD Collection, Box of Pearls – The Janis Joplin Collection for a pledge of $350, or both for $450. The post The politics of healing, happiness and ‘pleasure activism' with adrienne maree brown; Plus: Janis Joplin, her life and music remembered appeared first on KPFA.

What do our superpowers teach us about our longings? How do we create spaces for young people to fully step into their voices and power? In this special episode, we're THRILLED to be joined by our favorite sci fi & Afrofuturism visionaries, Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown! Join our juicy conversation about love, parenthood, imagination, youth, magic, and longing as we explore the new scifi show “Raising Dion. Tell us what you think @thebigwepodcast and hello@thebigwepodcast.com and visit http://thebigwepodcast.com for full show notes. adrienne maree brown is author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, Octavia Butler scholar, pleasure activist, healer, singer/speaker (including wedding singer!), founder of the Emergent Strategy Institute, and a doula living in Detroit. Autumn Brown is a mother (of dragons!), organizer, theologian, sci-fi writer, artist, and facilitator. She is a Worker-Owner at the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance (AORTA), a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy through political education, training, and planning. How to Survive the End of the World is adrienne maree & Autumn Brown's podcast where they "learn from the apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity."

Leslie with this months guest: Adrienne Maree Brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. brown has been facilitating professionally for over fifteen years and has worked with hundreds of organizations at all levels of scale including informal collectives, foundations, national networks and more. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World podcast.

adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, and is the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. brown has been facilitating professionally for over fifteen years, and has worked with hundreds of organizations at all levels of scale including informal collectives, foundations, national networks and more. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World podcast. Jillian Bessett: The voice in the intro and outro belong to songwriter Jillian Bessett. Jillian Bessett is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose evocative lyrics and welcoming stage presence have endeared her to audiences throughout the southwest music scene. Jillian is currently writing music and gigging with her new favorite instrument the Boss RC-505 Looping Station. Mentioned in the Episode: Beyoncé Lizzo A Little Juju Podcast: “OK, So Beyonce is a Witch." Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic”

For this first episode of 2019, we're so happy to be bringing you the author of Kate's favorite book she read all of last year! Andrienne Maree Brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, as well as the upcoming book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, and after some delays and scheduling mishaps, she was well worth the wait. Adrienne is a writer, a sci-fi Octavia Butler Scholar, an organizational healer and a pleasure activist. She's also a facilitator, a life, love, relationship and work coach, a network weaver, speaker, singer and doula. In this episode, Adrienne talks about her popular book and why it resonates so much with people, her experiences as a doula, time expansion and a whole lot more. Adrienne has tapped into a truth that has lived in all of our bodies and all of nature for so long, and how she articulate this is so fascinating. It was our honor to start this new year of podcasts by interviewing Adrienne Maree Brown. Do you want 2019 to be a year of tremendous growth, support, and miracles for you and your business? Are you an established entrepreneur who identifies as female with a track-record of consistent customers, clear offerings, and consistent revenue? We're excited to announce that Kate has created a high-level paid mastermind that you could be the perfect fit for! For more details and how to apply visit https://origincollective.com/incubator/.  Would you, or a company you know, be a good fit to sponsor The Kate & Mike Show? If so, let's talk! You can email mike@mikejwatts.com regarding current sponsorship opportunities. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at http://www.katenorthrup.com/podcast. 

Rose chats with Alia Shanti of Shanti Gumbo on the journey and creation of their new Tarot deck and system, Dream Awake Tarot. Listen in as they share their experiences of how they came to the Tarot; as well as encouraging others to contribute to the creation of this deck. They are creating music as well as the cards to go hand in hand for the users to gain their own esoteric connections.You can connect with Alia via Instagram, YouTube, and her website: https://dreamawaketarot.faith/ Suggested work to see if The Dream Awake Tarot is for you: Dream Awake Alchemist Unit One: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zj6jhtbxcdHrjrczCHNbuJ1JqGiAAOJj/view The Kickstarter opens October 2, 2018. Alia was inspired by these works:James Wanless:https://james-wanless.com/Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Strategy-Shaping-Change-Changing/dp/1849352607

This Monday February 19th on KPFA Radio's Women's Magazine, Viveka Jagadeseen talks to author and activist Adrienne Maree Brown about how we can organize a resilient mass movement capable of creating fundamental social change in today's political climate with an  understanding of social change inspired by the resilience and adaptive nature of biological systems, that is non hierarchical and non harming.  Adrienne Maree Brown, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.  Brown is the Co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, and author most recently of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds a book described as a “resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us” and expands  our radical imagination.    The post Adrienne Maree Brown – visionary social change appeared first on KPFA.

Adrienne Maree Brown is the author of a book I recommend so often I might as well put it in my email signature: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. She's a Detroit-based writer, activist, facilitator, poet, and avid sci-fi fan. In this episode, we nerd out; We talk about what birds can teach us about social movements, the value of personal pleasure, why Beyoncé is absolutely everything, and how to survive the end of the world. Hope you love listening to this episode as much as I loved making it.

This month marks one year since the election of Donald Trump. The Laura Flanders Show released a special report at that time in which we asked our guests to reflect on social change. How it happens, how it doesn't, what they planned to do the day after the election to keep resistance movements alive and what they do to support their own spirits. One year later those questions matter more than ever, and our guests this week have their own take. Our studio guest is Reverend Jacqui Lewis of Middle Collegiate Church, she was a contributor to the 2017 collection Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump. Then Adrienne Maree Brown, whom we caught up with in Detroit. She's the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds.  Music featured: “Love On High' by Juan Hoerni ft. Terry Dexter, the title track of Hoerni's sophomore album and Look Ahead' by Honey Dijon, Tim K, and Sam Sparro from Honey's debut album “The Best of Both Worlds”

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds is a radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help book designed to shape the futures we want to live. As brown argues, change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Page and Monica sat down with Hannah Baptiste to chat about adrienne maree brown's newest book.