Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material? We embody. We learn. We release the idea of failure, because it’s all data. But first we imagine.

my core responsibility is to be a benefit to whatever I’m engaged in. I may not always know HOW that will happen but it has to be my aim. I want peoples’ lives to have been better (even in very tiny ways) from having participated with me in this work.

remind participants that change happens at a pace relevant for the people involved—we are not ahead of or behind each other, we are in a million experiments.

Science fiction is not fluffy stuff. Afrofuturism is not just the coolest look that ever existed. The future is not an escapist place to occupy. All of it is the inevitable result of what we do today, and the more we take it in our hands, imagine it as a place of justice and pleasure, the more the future knows we want it, and that we aren’t letting

On so many levels, interdependence requires being seen, as much as possible, as your true self.

Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. I suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories. It is our right and responsibility to create a new world.

The places I’m drawn to in movement espouse a desire for transformative justice—justice practices that go all the way to the root of the problem and generate solutions and healing there, such that the conditions that create injustice are transformed.

What I have been studying by being hyper-aware inside my life is how much being interdependent is a series of small repetitive motions.

I love the other options I am hearing: “Decolonize ‘insert city’”; “Occupy within”; and “Foreclose ‘insert institution.’” It feels spacious. It feels like something you can do, no matter where you are, by authentically applying yourself to the changes you wish to see.

as the attacks grow faster and more vicious, I wonder: is this what we’re here for? To cultivate a fear-based adherence to reductive common values?