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Julie Phillips @julie-phillips.com · 02/04/2026

Not to be missed: writers reading the blog posts of @ursulakleguin.com! All-star cast includes David Mitchell, Karen Joy Fowler, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, @ellenkushner.bsky.social @aliettedebodard.com @michelleruizkeil.bsky.social @nicolaz.bsky.social @davidnaimon.bsky.social 1/2

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Christian @christian.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“As soon as we break away, culture becomes what we’re doing.” — @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social have a feeling i’m going to sit with everything about these conversations for awhile youtu.be/4FcIlhriNog?...

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Beyond the Possible with adrienne maree brown

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

choosing earth adriennemareebrown.net/2026/04/08/c...

if anything horrific horrific happens
i’m here

i used to say if you need me
call me
and i meant
if the darkness makes you feel lost
i’ll be your gallows humor
i’ll find you by your laughter

i used to say if something bad happens
let me know
and i meant
i will close any distance
to catch you before you fall
i only need a white flag

then if anything unprecedented happens
text me
i love you but my ringer’s off
so many phone calls have ruined my life
and i am trying to build one of the arks
to carry us through this

one horrific isn’t enough
we have witnessed humanity
dragged by the hair to hell
we have seen the charred earth
as each day brings unholy tantrums
from men who hate the word no

today the president of the united states
threatened the annihilation of a people
the dictator of reality tv
is jealous of the moon
in an age of celestial mechanics
he fetishizes a nuclear option

today we know the names
of every coward who claims power
but cannot seem to shift a tide
to save a life
i’d rather worship a rock in the vastness
i’d rather cry with astronauts

so if anything horrific horrific happens
i’m here
screaming NO with you
grieving home with you
raging ourselves free
with all the people of earth
at odds with our governments

and if i can’t hold you close
or again
i will name the brightness for you
i will be steadfast – an earthling
choosing earth
choosing earth

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

meditation with june jordan’s Moving Towards Home, and the brilliance of dandelions

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AK Press @akpress.org · 12/05/2025

" @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social has created a work of speculative fiction that resonates deeply with the present moment. That’s the Grievers trilogy, the third volume of which—titled Ancestors—is due out soon; its plot blends a story of urban transformation with a heady amount of (literal) magic."

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Atmos @atmosmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Listen to our full conversation with writer and organizer @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social on death, witching, and the alchemy that happens when we turn toward each other in relationship: atmos.earth/staying-root...

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“don’t be a passive observer of the decline of society…you’ll sleep better at night if you’re trying.” @ayanaeliza.bsky.social on We Can Do Hard Things

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esmereldaknits.bsky.social @esmereldaknits.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Sometimes when I’m struggling to give my attention to fruitful, community-building things, I refer to the Emergent Strategy principle that “what you pay attention to grows” and that helps me. Grateful everyday for @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social and the impact her work has made on me.

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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

breathing wide across our wingspan into that sacred and constant silk web where we belong For #NationalPoetryMonth we're sharing poems from The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. Today's: spell for reclaiming the moment by adrienne maree brown: bit.ly/3XIOoUl @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social

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spell for reclaiming the moment | Poetry Database | Split This Rock

Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.

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AK Press @akpress.org · 15/03/2025

Happy 10th birthday 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘢'𝘴 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘥 and congratulations @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social & Walidah Imarisha! 🎉 A decade and 75,000 copies later, this book has made a huge impact in movement spaces and beyond. Have you read it yet? www.akpress.org/octavia-s-br...

Four stacks of the book Octavia's Brood sit arranged in a rectangle, with a letterpress sign on top that reads "All Organizing Is Science Fiction —Octavia's Brood"

Editors adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, and contributor Gabriel Teodros, stand on either side of a vertical banner featuring cover art from the book Octavia's Brood.

Editors Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown and contributor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha smile at the camera while sitting behind a book signing table at the Incite conference in 2015.

Contributors Tunde Olaniran, Morrigan Phillips, Autumn Brown, Dani McClain, Walidah Imarisha, and adrienne maree brown pose together at the Allied Media Conference release event of Octavia's Brood.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you are upset about what's going on but aren't sure what to do: start by calling your reps. This app 👇 makes it easy. Standing up to authority is a muscle. If you haven't had to exercise it before, this is a great first step. I promise DOING one thing will make you feel better & more capable.

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“The most important thing is he changes the way his teammates think about their own play,” Lebron James on Nikola Jokic. “When you’re able to inspire your teammates to play at a level that sometimes they don’t even feel like they can play at, that’s a true testament of a great one.”

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In this episode, I talk to visionary thinker, organizer and artist @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (author of EMERGENT STRATEGY, GRIEVERS & LOVING CORRECTIONS) about the role of the artist during times of chaos and creating beauty from pain and uncertainty. (Ep. 156) www.lifewritingpodcast.com

adrienne maree brown's photo for Episode 156 of the Lifewriting Podcast - she is wearing a straw hat

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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 04/03/2025

Finally got around to listen to this. This was a *great* episode. The more you dig into US history, the darker it gets. There’s a reason they want to outlaw scholarship in the US. endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/ori...

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Original Sins with Dr. Eve L. Ewing

Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcomeDr. Eve L. Ewing to get deep into her new book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Child...

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Resistance Reads @resistancereads.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If you're looking for a guide to what transformative organizing looks and feels like, then you're looking for Emergent Strategy by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social #activism #books #booksky #organizing

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

questions for reflection, journaling or conversation with people in your community:

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

- make boycott your default practice - tell your friends and family (esp those not on social media or connected to movement) why you’re boycotting - ask them to join you!

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Movement Generation @movementgeneration.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We’re new here, and it seems like a good time to share radical independent media. Read our latest Murmurations column in @yesmedia.bsky.social : Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology Thanks @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social ! www.yesmagazine.org/environment/...

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Murmurations: Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology

Slavery and genocide fueled climate destruction. Black liberation will fuel regeneration.

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!

red bunny on mint green background with a call to boycott on feb 28 - buy nothing, use small businesses and remember we have power

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A pack of 250 Avery mailing labels is $18. That's 7.2 cents per label and 250 little stickers you can write/print a message on and slap around town. (Don't be a jerk though.) Ideas: NO KINGS TRUMP DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU DIVEST FROM TESLA DEIA MATTERS TRANS LIVES MATTER You get the idea.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

“I’ll see you and raise you one.”

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

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Chelsea Jewel @chelseajewel33.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This whole quote from @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social’s #emergentstrategy is the energy I’m taking into this #PiscesNewMoon and our event on Thursday night. We need to dream new dreams together, weave new visions and stories with one another’s - and this New Moon equips us to do just that ✨⛅️🌈🎨

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/02/2025

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 22/02/2025

Anticipatory malicious obediance

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Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

From @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social from her July 2024 appearance on On Being: "So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way..." onbeing.org/programs/adr...

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life

The social creative and visionary of emergence. Fractals. Pleasure activism. How we change — and change together.

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Rev. Deanna @everrevde.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"there’s enough destruction. there’s enough nothingness swallowing the living world. don’t add to it. there’s enough. our visions are ropes through the devastation. look further ahead, like our ancestors did, look further. extend, hold on, pull, evolve.” - @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social waning Adrienne Maree Brown slowly i collapse lose light lose warmth forget everything i ever knew about bright it is time again to know nothing to be still and silent to wait and wonder to notice exactly what i need so completely that it pulls me through shadow

Grover smells roses and sees a bee and the words plant everything now, plant love in the shape of g-ds is on the top of the image

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slowly i collapse lose light lose warmth
forget everything i ever knew about bright it is time again to know nothing to be still and silent to wait and wonder
to notice exactly what i need so completely that it pulls me through shadow
pulls me through the cold of my own isolation back, slower than a dream faster than a season i hear everyone whispering: plant everything now plant love the shape of gods
the handprints of children allowed to say no plant quiet contemplation of miracles the ripple of orgasmic awe
plant the undulation, the pulse, the fusion plant even the idea of a wave and let the ocean flood you by morning

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Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Doing tarot pulls with Theo @qimoyocreative.bsky.social and enjoying the sun on this mountain. In this book from @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social Lineages of Change tarot has this quote from @nalohop.bsky.social from my fave book of hers in our spread- for the 8 of pentacles/earth. Love this!

A three card tarot spread - the star, the fool, the g-dseed, from adrienne mares browns lineages of change tarot deck. Vibrant cards with images of BIPOC folks and swaths of multiple coloured clouds cover the cards

In the tarot guide book, a quote by Nalo Hopkinson from her book
Salt roads “do not ask your future, you will forget to live in your present”

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

At 7pm eastern (and all week) you can watch the livestream of tonight’s Audre Lorde Birthday concert!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰 www.youtube.com/live/Vg_A19G...

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February 18th, 2025 7pm - Alexis Pauline Gumbs & Toshi Reagon

YouTube video by Joe's Pub

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Teresa @poeticpuppets.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Grover is quoting the inimitable @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social today!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025

“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies. With 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and two independents in the Senate, such a push is numerically possible, though politically difficult.“

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

@signal.org hey can y’all redesign the app so the cancel button is on the other side of the text box from the send button? i keep losing incredible voice messages when i try to push send. love y’all

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

sharing a moment from the last @workingfamilies.org mass call i got to participate in. keep creating and learning loves.

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

tv shows for the end of the world 🙏🏽 www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcome Dr. @eveewing.bsky.social to get deep into her new book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. Wherever you listen to How to Survive the End of the World.

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Cassandra Geisel (she/her) @cassandrageisel.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It’s so good my cat wanted to eat it! @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social

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coach lisa bernal-wood @lisabernalwood.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Something I read today: “Loving Corrections” by adrienne maree brown. #booksky @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social “The good news is that we don’t need to be experts on every region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

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