adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public. Through her writing, which includes short and long-form fiction, nonfiction, spells, tarot decks, and poetry; her music, which includes songwriting, singing, and an upcoming immersive musical ritual; and her podcasts, including "How to Survive the End of the World," "Octavia’s Parables," and "The Emergent Strategy Podcast," adrienne has nurtured "Emergent Strategy," "Pleasure Activism," "Radical Imagination," and "Transformative Justice" as ideas, frameworks, networks, and practices for transformation.

Her work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation, her path of teaching somatics, her love of Octavia E Butler and visionary fiction, and her work as a doula. She is the author/editor of several published texts including "Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds" (2017), "Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good" (2019), "Grievers" (2021), and "Maroons" (2023), the first two novellas of her speculative fiction trilogy.

After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland, and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC.

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