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murmurations

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Jonathan McCrory

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Murmurations: Balancing Duality on Winter Solstice

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solstice

queerness

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Murmurations: Flying Into the Spring Equinox

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black liberation

queer liberation

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murmurations

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writing

murmurations

queer liberation

black liberation

change

Emergent Strategy

Experiencing Urban Earth Beauty

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murmurations

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murmurations

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Emergent Strategy

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murmurations

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change

relationships

Emergent Strategy

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murmurations

feminism

embodiment

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Queering Abolition

abolition

writing

queer liberation

murmurations

micha cárdenas

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transformative justice

somatics

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Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier

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mixed race

race

intergenerational healing

family

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loving corrections

events

conflict

liberation

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adaptation

loving corrections

philanthropy

transformation

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black liberation

artistic expression

performance

liberation

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conflict

organizing

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accountability

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holding change

emergent strategy

facilitation

community

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found in my notebook after somatics + trauma advanced

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healing

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somatics

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if you can't see the small...

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poetry

pleasure

attention

fractals

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one year of grieving alana

grief

writing

ritual

Being Here

maybe happiness?

grief

body

writing

Radical Imagination

Harriet Review

Harriet Tubman

black women

black liberation

black culture

Emergent Strategy

build as we fight: remarks from the 2019 American Studies Association Annual Meeting

dream

writing

vision

imagination

Scott Kurashige

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optimism and practice

transformation

liberation

writing

Being Here

cold moon conjure

writing

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ritual

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first the window, then the door

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attention

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pandemic

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poetry

Emergent Strategy

On Rushing Toward Apocalypse (with Aja Taylor)

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pandemic

change

writing

Emergent Strategy

sabbatical your quarantine

change

rest

pandemic

writing

nature

Radical Imagination

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pandemic

visionary fiction

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poetry

Emergent Strategy

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pandemic

resistance

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care for yourself and everything else (transmission)

pandemic

interdependence

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poetry

Being Here

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writing

pandemic

boundaries

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writing

grief

black liberation

power

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returning from away: wow

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love

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for oluwatoyin 'toyin' salau

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black liberation

grief

writing

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happy juneteenth my loves

ritual

black liberation

writing

spells

Emergent Strategy

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black liberation

black women

poetry

writing

liberation

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a word for white people, in two parts

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writing

black liberation

interdependence

Emergent Strategy

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pop culture

writing

art

performance

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Radical Imagination

Meditation Time Travel to 2050 (for Movement Generation)

vision

writing

ritual

Movement Generation

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unthinkable thoughts: call out culture in the age of covid-19

we will not cancel us

cancel culture

accountability

writing

conflict

Emergent Strategy

learning and untangling

we will not cancel us

cancel culture

conflict

accountability

writing

Being Here

full moon in aquarius

poetry

writing

Emergent Strategy

strategy and kamala feels

elections

electoral politics

writing

accountability

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Black August Haikus, 2020

black liberation

poetry

writing

Being Here

42, what feels true

writing

pleasure

Being Here

we are no longer surprised

magic

ancestral healing

writing

poetry

Being Here

come out

queer liberation

liberation

writing

poetry

pleasure

writing

elections

electoral politics

poetry

Being Here

oh great mystery (a prayer to the blue moon on the day of the dead)

poetry

writing

spirituality

visionary fiction

Being Here

brief thoughts 2: starting small

pandemic

love

pop culture

Emergent Strategy

brief thoughts, 1: movement as liberatory space

writing

organizing

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SistaSoul Search Retreat Speech, Dec 12, 2020

black women

feminism

black liberation

writing

Being Here

root and hibernate

grief

pandemic

writing

Emergent Strategy

The Wisdom Behind Prison Walls

abolition

writing

GILDA SHEPPARD

murmurations

Emergent Strategy

Making Space for Transformation

writing

murmurations

transformation

facilitation

Luis Alejandro Tapia

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What the Whales Whispered

writing

murmurations

nature

whales

Michaela Harrison

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black liberation

writing

climate

murmurations

QUINTON SANKOFA

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Foreword to "All In" by Caitlin Breedlove

Caitlin Breedlove

cancer

survival

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Foreword to "Practicing New Worlds" by Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea Ritchie

abolition

transformative justice

Detroit

Radical Imagination

A Letter to Ursula Le Guin After Her Departure

writing

Ursula Le Guin

grief

visionary fiction

Radical Imagination

Massy Books Presents: Alchemizing Black Futures

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N.K Jemisin

Nalo Hopkinson

Massy Books

black liberation

visionary fiction

Radical Imagination

The Grievers Trilogy

grievers trilogy

Detroit

ancestors

maroons

grievers

Radical Imagination

On Being: Hope Portal

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Harriet Tubman

liberation

vision

visionary fiction

organizing

Being Here

Prayers for Palestine

Prayers for Palestine

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What Your Body Has to Do With Social Change

writing

somatics

pleasure activism

Being Here

Pleasure Activism: what's somatics got to do with it?

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healing

trauma healing

body

somatics

events

pleasure

pleasure activism

embodiment

Autumn Brown

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Love as Political Resistance

love

pleasure

trauma healing

writing

Being Here

Why Are We Never Satisfied?

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We Can Do Hard Things

healing

Glennon Doyle

Abby Wambach

Amanda Doyle

Emergent Strategy

Moving from Punishment to Accountability

writing

murmurations

Kung Li Sun

accountability

transformative justice

Being Here

Oh my weary heart.

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music

grief

love

resilience

Emergent Strategy

it only needs a million hands

writing

poetry

organizing

Emergent Strategy

What If We Get It Right?

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loving corrections

climate

climate crisis

black liberation

black women

Emergent Strategy

All Ecology Is Queer

nature

queer liberation

music

artistic expression

climate

Emergent Strategy

amb x Mt Holyoke: Build A New World With Us

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loving corrections

events

survival

community

organizing

Emergent Strategy

How to Make Loving Corrections with adrienne maree brown

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loving corrections

conflict

We Can Do Hard Things

abolition

relationships

Emergent Strategy

How the Wonder of Nature Can Inspire Social Justice Activism

writing

nature

adaptation

fractals

Emergent Strategy

On creating visionary and healing spaces

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climate

community

land

Movement Generation

Being Here

thank you 2020

pandemic

writing

love

Being Here

what is unveiled? the founding wound. (poem/directive)

body

poetry

writing

resilience

Emergent Strategy

post nationalism in the age of cooptation and other dumpster fires

electoral politics

writing

Being Here

if you're good, say you're good

pleasure

writing

Emergent Strategy

Distinguished and Singing

Belonging

writing

Emergent Strategy

Disrupting the Pattern: A Call for Love and Solidarity

solidarity

love

writing

black women

feminism

Being Here

this is not justice, this is respite

writing

poetry

grief

Emergent Strategy

boundary moments

pandemic

boundaries

family

writing

Being Here

this is the only moment (species love poetry)

Caitlin Breedlove

spirituality

writing

poetry

Radical Imagination

St. Louis Racial Equity Summit 2021 Keynote

imagination

writing

visionary fiction

democracy

possibilities

Emergent Strategy

The Darwin Variant, and/or Love of the Fittest

pandemic

climate crisis

writing

disability justice

love

Emergent Strategy

what they do to the earth / they do to our bodies

writing

poetry

earth

Being Here

I Remember Everything

writing

Being Here

not busy, focused; not busy, full

writing

poetry

rest

Being Here

in case it helps / bell hooks asé

writing

grief

bell hooks

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Pleasure Activism

Pleasure Activism

Pleasure Activism

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Fractals: The Relationship Between Small and Large / Fractales: la relación entre lo pequeño y lo grande.

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possibility is beginning to enter again

How to Love Family When You’re Divided On Beliefs (with Autumn Brown)

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don't call it a comeback: white throated rail!

relinquishing the patriarchy

grace showed up today

trust the people

Loving Corrections @ Harlem School for the Arts

adrienne maree brown on the water we’re swimming in

Hollywood Climate Summit

adrienne maree brown with Matthew David McGorry on Loving Corrections

SPARC Open Education Conference

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Emergent Strategies for Environmental Justice

We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown

Visualizing Abolition with adrienne maree brown and Gilda Sheppard

Energizing Change: Charlene Carruthers and adrienne maree brown in Conversation

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How to Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable

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adrienne maree brown presents LOVING CORRECTIONS with Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

Loving Corrections: adrienne maree brown with 1Hood

The People's Graduation

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Survival as Transformative Justice: “Live and Work and Be Free and Heal”

We’re Young, Passionate, and Bent on Justice: Why #BlackLivesMatter Is Irresistible

Stewarding the Future

Lessons from Pride and Parades

Experiencing Urban Earth Beauty

There Will Be Living, After All

Making Space for Intentional Adaptation

Wisdom From Women Changemakers

Queering Abolition

From Rupture to Repair

Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier

Loving Corrections: adrienne maree brown in conversation with Mary Hooks and Charlene Carruthers

Beyond the Possible with adrienne maree brown

NBT@Home Presents PLANNING YOUR LIBERATION - a.k. payne in conversation with adrienne maree brown

Kitchen Table Mediation

Emergent Strategy Facilitation Training: Part 4 of 4

build as we fight: remarks from the 2019 American Studies Association Annual Meeting

On Rushing Toward Apocalypse (with Aja Taylor)

sabbatical your quarantine

capitalism IS a conspiracy

Juneteenth meditation for BEAM

a word for white people, in two parts

Hamilton

unthinkable thoughts: call out culture in the age of covid-19

learning and untangling

strategy and kamala feels

brief thoughts, 1: movement as liberatory space

The Wisdom Behind Prison Walls

Making Space for Transformation

What the Whales Whispered

Climate Solutions Require Black Ecology

Foreword to "All In" by Caitlin Breedlove

Foreword to "Practicing New Worlds" by Andrea J. Ritchie

Moving from Punishment to Accountability

it only needs a million hands

What If We Get It Right?