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adrienne maree brown

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through.

“Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous “Harper’s Letter,” signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to take down more powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, cancel culture is seen by some as having gone “too far.” Adrienne maree brown, a respected cultural voice and a professional mediator, reframes the discussion for us, in a way that points to possible ways beyond the impasse. Most critiques of cancel culture come from outside the milieus that produce it, sometimes from even from its targets. Brown explores the question from a Black, queer, and feminist viewpoint that gently asks, how well does this practice serve us? Does it prefigure the sort of world we want to live in? And, if it doesn’t, how do we seek accountability and redress for harm in a way that reflects our values?

AK Press

Emergent Strategy Series

We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life’s inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working to create change, individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations. The majority of the book is sourced from brown’s twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work, with additional wisdom from a selection of living Black feminist facilitators and mediators.

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

Kung Li Sun

Begin the World Over is a counterfactual novel about the 
Founders’ greatest fear—that Black and Indigenous people might join 
forces to undo the newly formed United States of America—coming true.

In 1793, as revolutionaries in the West Indies take up arms, James Hemings has little interest in joining the fight for liberté—talented
 and favored, he is careful to protect his relative comforts as Thomas 
Jefferson’s enslaved chef. But when he meets Denmark Vesey, James is 
immediately smitten. The formidable first mate persuades James to board 
his ship, on its way to the revolt in Saint-Domingue. There and on the 
mainland they join forces with a diverse cast of characters, including a
 gender nonconforming prophetess, a formerly enslaved jockey, and a 
Muskogee horse trader. The resulting adventure masterfully mixes real 
historical figures and events with a riotous retelling of a possible 
history in which James must decide whether to return to his constrained 
but composed former life, or join the coalition of Black revolutionaries
 and Muskogee resistance to fight the American slavers and settlers.

Begin the World Over

Fables and Spells is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new. Included here is brown’s most beloved story, “The River,” as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. The remaining sixty-seven pieces explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that also weave deep, radical lessons. With narrative “fables” of speculative fiction and “spells” that play with the lines between poetry, instruction, song, and chant, Fables and Spells demonstrates how good writing can engage the present while providing expansive visions of the possible worlds humans can build. 

adrienne maree brown’s previous work includes Octavia’s Brood, Emergent Strategy, the New York Times best-selling Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, Holding Change, and Grievers. brown grows transformative ideas in public through her writing and art; she is a poet changing the world. She is the writer-in-residence at Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.

Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry

Susan Raffo

Self-transformation requires social transformation. 

Social transformation requires self-transformation.

 

The newest title in the Emergent Strategy Series, Liberated to the Bone addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our relationship within systems and structures that are shaped by violence. The book illuminates three different approaches to healing: ending violence, the significance of being rooted in the present, and creating the conditions to address unfinished histories and generational trauma. By showing how these approaches are intricately connected—whether it be physically or emotionally—Raffo interrupts the traumatic binaries of the political and spiritual, the physical and intellectual, and healing and organizing.

Liberated To the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures.

Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown has launched a series of the same name, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. Books that find the opportunity in every crisis!

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