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Pleasure Activism – adrienne maree brown

And that’s never felt like enough room, because I’m a spirit, [ laughs ] you know? I’m this massive energy like all humans are. So, so much of the work for me, of radical imagination is: what does it look like to imagine beyond the constructs? What does it look like to imagine a future where we all get to be there, not causing harm to each other, a... See more

adrienne maree brown • adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project

I became especially interested in thinking about my relationships to corrections and accountability—how I held myself and others accountable—through my facilitation work. Even among those of us who long for justice and liberation, I noticed an emerging trend within our movements that looked and felt like policing each other, disposing of each other

adrienne maree brown • Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy Series Book 12)

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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Ultimately, pleasure activism is us learning to make justice and liberation the most pleasurable experiences we can have on this planet.

adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)

We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series Book 3)

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We won’t end the systemic patterns of harm by isolating and picking off individuals, just as we can’t limit the communicative power of mycelium by plucking a single mushroom from the dirt. We need to flood the entire system with life-affirming principles and practices, to clear the channels between us of the toxicity of supremacy, to heal from the

adrienne maree brown • We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series Book 3)

This book is about inviting people to solid ground and inviting people to be in deeper integrity with their own values and the impacts of their actions, speech, and lives.

adrienne maree brown • Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy Series Book 12)

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 you