6/29/2023 0 Comments Emergent strategy adrienne brown![]() ![]() They’re both from South Carolina and they met and fell in love at Clemson University. I was the first child born to my dad, who is a black man, and my mom, who is a white woman. Justin Campbell: So can you tell us about your experiences growing up? Your family life and maybe even how you got to be in this work in the first place?Īdrienne maree brown: Sure. ![]() This interview has been edited for length and clarity. We spoke via phone she in Detroit, myself in Los Angeles. In that project, adrienne asked activists to imagine possible future worlds in her next project, she’s asked her readers to imagine a future for the only possible world: this one.ĭescribed as a “planet/self-help” guide, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (AK Press, 2017) has quickly become a go-to handbook for organizers involved in social justice endeavors, in part because of the book’s innovative science- (and science fiction-) based observations about how change happens. Their goal was to produce a collection of “Visionary Fiction” written by social justice organizers the grounding principle of their collaboration was the idea that “all organizing is science fiction.” A mentor at the time suggested I read Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (AK Press, 2015), a science fiction anthology co-edited by adrienne and the activist Walidah Imarisha. When I was first introduced to the work of adrienne maree brown, it was through fiction. ![]() Justin Scott Campbell | Longreads | April 2018 | 19 minutes (5,357 words) ![]()
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