adrienne maree brown emergent strategy shaping change changing worlds

HonorsĪdrienne was awarded the Auburn Institute’s Spiritual Resilience Fellowship in its inaugural year, 2019-2020. Butler Tarot Deck (AK Press, 2021) along with 16 Black oracles and artists weaving Butler’s fictional wisdoms into the ancient knowledge of the tarot. Her upcoming projects include Maroons (book 2 of the Grievers trilogy, Fall 2022) and To Feel A Thing: A Ritual for Emergence (a musical ritual co-commissioned by OSF-Ashland and St Louis Rep Theater). She is also the co-editor of the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements with Walidah Imarisha, published by AK Press in 2015. Books & ProjectsĪdrienne is the author of Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry, The Journal of Radical Permission with Sonya Renee Taylor, (Berrett Koehler, 2022), Grievers (the first novella in her fiction trilogy for the Black Dawn imprint at AK Press), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, the NY Times Bestseller Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, the radical self/planet help book Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds published by AK Press in 2017. After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC. She is the author/editor of several published texts including Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017), Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (2019), Grievers (2021) and Maroons (2023) the first two novellas of her speculative fiction trilogy.

Her work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation, her path of teaching somatics, her love of Octavia E Butler and visionary fiction, and her work as a doula. Through her writing, which includes short- and long-form fiction, nonfiction, spells, tarot decks and poetry her music, which includes songwriting, singing and an upcoming immersive musical ritual and her podcasts, including How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables and The Emergent Strategy Podcast, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas, frameworks, networks and practices for transformation. Adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public.

Adrienne maree brown emergent strategy shaping change changing worlds