Discovering Pleasure Activism with adrienne maree brown

adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. brown has been facilitating professionally for over fifteen years, and has worked with hundreds of organizations at all levels of scale including informal collectives, foundations, national networks and more. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World podcast.

You can discover more about adrienne maree brown through her website and Instagram.

Episode Questions:
• What is the relationship between pleasure, control, abundance, and scarcity?
• What do you find pleasurable?
• How are you going to prioritize pleasure in your world?
• What could it mean for you to lean into your longings as a means for personal and communal transformation?

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Music: Supa Dred II (Wake Up) & It Doesn't Have To Be This Way by Andre Henry.