In this episode, author and movement facilitator adrienne maree brown shares her desire to see our movements become welcoming sanctuaries “where we get to taste and feel this world we’re trying to co-create.” Unfortunately, this is far from the reality that many of us experience in Leftist spaces.

As adrienne explains, capitalism and other oppressive systems tend to infiltrate our movements, making us competitive, critical, and eager to punish. “It’s been breaking my heart to be inside of movements and feel how these huge systems that we’re trying to take down infiltrate our practices. We become competitive with each other, we become hypercritical of each other, we become punitive with each other.”

adrienne has 25 years of experience as a movement facilitator supporting social and environmental justice work. Vast praxis and reflection in conversation with other changemakers have grounded her deep insights about cancel & call-out culture. For more on these topics, I highly recommend adrienne’s short book We Will Not Cancel Us.

Adrienne has also written extensively about pleasure activism, emergent strategy, abolition, radical imagination, & transformative justice. She recently published a work of visionary fiction titled Maroons, the second novel in the Black Dawn trilogy set in the abandoned urban landscape of Detroit in the aftermath of a supervirus that targets Black people. You can find this trilogy and her other books on AK Press!

Check out adrienne's wonderful podcasts:
How to Survive the End of the World
Octavia’s Parables
The Emergent Strategy Podcast.

Follow adrienne on Twitter ( @adriennemaree )
and Instagram ( @adriennemareebrown )

Big thanks to Anjali Pinto who took the above photo of adrienne.

THE MAROONS COCKTAIL

A cocktail in honor of adrienne maree brown and her recent novel by the same name.

60ml Tequila Repos

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