adrienne maree brown Lecture
Left: Octavia’s Brood, co-edited by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, AK Press, 2015. Right: adrienne maree brown. Photo: Derrick Beasley
Join us for a virtual lecture by adrienne maree brown followed by an audience Q & A.
Click HERE to join via Zoom at 12:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Explore the Visiting Artists Program homepage for recordings of past events and more.
adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by 27 years of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship, and doula work, brown has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination, and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. brown is the New York Times–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 the How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown. Their latest book Loving Corrections is now available from AK Press.
brown is the author of Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry, The Journal of Radical Permission with Sonya Renee Taylor, Grievers (the first novella in her fiction trilogy for the Black Dawn imprint at AK Press), Maroons, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, the New York Times bestseller Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, the movement classic Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds published by AK Press in 2017. She is also the co-editor of the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements with Walidah Imarisha, published by AK Press in 2015, and co-editor of the out of print How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office.
Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on the occasion of SAIC’s Shared Read, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. As an outgrowth of SAIC’s ongoing commitment to redress institutionalized racism, each year SAIC designates a Shared Read, an annual, School-wide reading of a text to create a foundational and integrative learning experience for all members of the School community. Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Sekile Nzinga will engage in conversation with adrienne maree brown about the motivations and ideas behind her work.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access.