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Adrienne Maree Brown

Né(e): September 06, 1978 – El Paso, Texas, United States

Adrienne Maree Brown is an American writer, activist, and facilitator whose work explores social justice, emergent strategy, pleasure, and speculative futures. She is known for Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism, as well as the novella Grievers, and has become an influential voice in movement organizing, abolitionist thought, and transformative change.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Adrienne Maree Brown emerged from a childhood shaped by movement across borders and by an early confrontation with the realities of race in the United States. In her own account, she was the eldest child of a Black father and white mother from South Carolina, grew up partly in Germany because of her father’s military service, and experienced racism more sharply after returning to the U.S. She later attended Columbia University in New York, where student activism and the 1999 police killing of Amadou Diallo became a defining political turning point. After college, she began her professional life with the Harm Reduction Coalition in Brooklyn, carrying forward questions about punishment, compassion, and human dignity that would remain central to both her organizing and her writing. ((https://longreads.com/2018/04/24/earning-our-place-on-the-planet-an-interview-with-adrienne-maree-brown/))

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Citations

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I believe that what we pay attention to grows and I want to grow the good
-Rihanna’s 'Anti': A Pleasure Activist’s Review/Love Note
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Sci fi is simply a way to practice the future together
-BALLE Closing Plenary Speech
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it’s delightful to feel this nervous, this alive
-Build as We Fight
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We are living science fiction – all organizing is science fiction
-Build as We Fight
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We are all interconnected. Denying that, we die. Surrendering to that, we live
-Closing Remarks to Environmental Grantmakers Association
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Relationship is key! Relationship, quality relationship, may in fact be everything
-Closing Remarks to Environmental Grantmakers Association
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I see the world as a miraculous mess
-The World Is a Miraculous Mess, and It’s Going to Be All Right
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We just have to be human together in it
-Closing the Loop
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When I am happy, it is good for the world
-The Power in Pleasure

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"Adrienne Maree Brown’s political clarity is braided tightly together with a profound humility"

Barbara Ransby

"Adrienne Maree Brown is extending a hand into the future"

J Wortham

"Adrienne Maree Brown demonstrates how we can tap into emotional and erotic desires to organize against oppression"

Colorlines

"Adrienne Maree Brown invites, challenges, and encourages new ways of thinking and being"

Shelf Awareness

"Adrienne Maree Brown makes the world more soft, more creative, more loving, and more evolved"

Tarana Burke

"Adrienne Maree Brown is one of our most important voices in Afrofuturism and true-life worldbuilding"

Tananarive Due

"Adrienne Maree Brown offers a refreshing and earnest meditation"

Publishers Weekly

"Adrienne Maree Brown is one of the great thinkers of our time"

Hala Alyan

"Adrienne Maree Brown is one of our most critical thinkers and strategists"

Monica Simpson

"Adrienne Maree Brown advocates more compassionate, inclusive understandings of family, community, and oneself"

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