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Black Feminism & Womanism
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe edited by Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande
The Essential Gathered View: A Collection by North American Indian Women (Note: This fits well here thematically, bridging Black and Indigenous feminism)
Black Literature & Exper
... See moreWhen we don’t believe in an unbreakable connection, the isolation of the wilderness is too daunting so we stay in our factions and echo chambers.
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
I have been a student of facilitation since my late teens, learning how to make it easier for people to be with each other.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
“To grow to adulthood as a social species, including humans, is not to become autonomous and solitary, it’s to become the one on whom others can depend. Whether we know it or not, our brain and biology have been shaped to favor this outcome.”
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Our culture tells us we are autonomous. Actually, we are each an integral part of multiple systems. The challenge is to reflect critically on our reality, learn to see the patterns, and recognize how context driven people are, that is, how much people are shaped by the expectations of their social milieu.
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
And Star Wars (the force); William Gibson (Idoru); China Mieville (dream shit); Nalo Hopkinson (sensual breathtaking magic); the Zapatistas (many worlds exist); the Black Panthers (meet the biological needs of a community as a mode of organizing); Black feminist artists Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
In an organization with a high capacity to adapt, people share responsibility for the larger organization’s future in addition to their identification with specific roles and functions.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
One major emerging lesson: We have to create futures in which everyone doesn’t have to be the same kind of person. That’s the problem with most utopias for me: they are presented as mono value, a new greener more local monoculture where everyone gardens and plays the lute and no one travels… And I don’t want to go there!45