adrienne maree brown - queer, Black feminist activist and author of We Will Not Cancel Us, Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategies, Holding Change, and more

adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us, Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. Her new book, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, comes out in April. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts.

“adrienne maree brown urges us to go deep, sink down, struggle, and swim as we find language, spirit, ourselves, and each other in this time of chaos. I cannot say how grateful I am for this work of poetry and love that makes sense of my/our everyday state of confusion and shows us how we might live abolition—not as an absolute state but as a dynamic motion forward and together.” - Mimi Kim, California State University, Long Beach

In this episode, we discuss her writing process, and:

• The most valuable thing there is
• Applying Buddhist principles to her editing process
• What the next moves are when you feel blocked. 
• And more

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This Week’s Writing Prompt

Write a story in which you are being called out or cancelled. Write how you would handle it, how you would want to be treated, how you would want your community to hold you accountable if you had actually done anything harmful or wrong, and what you would hope to be the outcome on the other side of it.

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• Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This Until We Free Us
• Trans activist Indya Moore

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