adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown
Scholar of Belonging
Durham, NC
TOPICS
Activism
Future of Work
LGBTQ Rights
Race
Revolutionary Joy
adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation.
adrienne is the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator/host of How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown. adrienne’s latest book Loving Corrections is now available from AK Press.
adrienne was awarded the Auburn Institute’s Spiritual Resilience Fellowship in its inaugural year, 2019-2020. In 2022 she was awarded the Jack P Blaney Award for Dialogue from the Simon Frasier University Center for Dialogue and the Barry Dym Champion for Change Award from the Institute for Nonprofit Practice. She was also a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and a 2013 and 2015 Knights Arts Challenge winner, writing and generating science fiction in and about Detroit. She was the Ursula Le Guin Feminist Sci Fi Fellow, and a Sundance/Time Warner 2016 Artist Grant Recipient.
adrienne engages a range of communities and stages, embodying radical love, somatic wisdom, and possibility. Her ability to hold the complexity of these times — with grief, trauma, hope, imagination — all at once, offers a safe container to grapple with difficult truths and envision change. She isn’t just sharing ideas, but watering seeds of a different world. She doesn’t dominate the room — she holds it, shapes it, and opens it.
adrienne is so adept at providing insights, caring for other humans, and being a resource that she modeled for us what it is like to experience people who engage in a liberatory praxis in all settings. I was so grateful for amb’s energy, kindness and thoughtfulness. amb treated the students so beautifully and we were all so deeply honored to spend an hour with such a gracious and humble person who gives so much of themselves to so many people.
Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to the people and place around you? Not after or because you do some particular thing, but simply the miracle of your life. And that the people around you, and the place(s), have contributions as well? Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?
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