adrienne maree brown

is a writer, editor, activist, social justice facilitator, coach, speaker, and doula. Her books include Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, which she wrote and edited, and Octavia鈥檚 Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements, which she co-edited. They are a YES! contributor, and the creator of YES!鈥檚 exclusive collective column 鈥�.鈥�

Articles By This Author

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: A Spell for the Winter Solstice

We can all be doulas in this dark time.

adrienne maree brown | Dec 19, 2024

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Social Justice

Practicing New Worlds with adrienne maree brown and Andrea Ritchie

In this exclusive conversation, two visionary abolitionist authors reflect on how the newest book in the Emergent Strategy Series came to be.

adrienne maree brown, Andrea Ritchie | Dec 18, 2023

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Grow the Chorus

adrienne maree brown reflects on the lessons they鈥檝e learned authoring this column for the past year, and lays out a path for what鈥檚 to come.

adrienne maree brown | Dec 28, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: A Final Winter Solstice Spell

In their final 鈥淪pell for a Season,鈥� adrienne maree brown explores the beauty and grief that come with a year that felt at once interminable and brief.

adrienne maree brown | Dec 21, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Accountable Endings

The end of a world built on toxic ideas of supremacy can make way for a better, more collective and connected existence, writes adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | Nov 29, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Accountable to Our Ancestors

adrienne maree brown ponders how (and whether) we should be accountable to ancestors who held beliefs vastly different from our own.

adrienne maree brown | Oct 27, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Accountable to Earth

In their September column, adrienne maree brown asks how we can hear beyond the human cry for help.

adrienne maree brown | Sep 27, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: A Spell for the Fall Equinox

As the days get shorter and the nights get longer, adrienne maree brown offers a seasonal spell to honor the fall equinox.

adrienne maree brown | Sep 21, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Breaking Is Part of Healing

Talking about endings can be scary, but they are necessary if we are to create something better together, writes adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | Aug 23, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Love Looks Like Accountability

Being accountable to ourselves and in our relationships with others helps to create a broader culture of accountability, writes adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | Jul 25, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Returning to the Whole

To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole, writes adrienne maree brown in their June column.

adrienne maree brown | Jun 29, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: A Summer Solstice Spell

With longer days comes more joy, but also more risk, adrienne maree brown reminds us on the summer solstice.

adrienne maree brown | Jun 21, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Accountability Begins Within

Holding ourselves accountable is the first step toward true healing, which is the victory we should all be working towards, says adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | May 31, 2022

Issues

The Power in Pleasure

Despite what capitalism has taught us, pleasure is neither a commodity nor a reward. It鈥檚 a foundational human need.

adrienne maree brown | May 18, 2022

Issues

The Pleasure Issue

This issue is dedicated to exploring pleasure as it connects to our efforts to change the world, and, hopefully, get free in the process.

adrienne maree brown | May 18, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: How to Be Accountable With Your Words

When it is difficult to see the truth, speaking it becomes even more essential, writes adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | Apr 27, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Realizing Our Abolitionist Dreams

Unlearning our punitive impulses will take slow, hard work, says adrienne maree brown. But it is possible.

adrienne maree brown | Mar 29, 2022

Health & Happiness

Murmurations: A Spell for the Spring Equinox

鈥淟et us remind ourselves that life moves ever towards life.鈥�

adrienne maree brown | Mar 18, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Building a Compassionate Economics

Two years into a global pandemic, adrienne maree brown invites us to root into compassion and reconnect with our state of interbeing.

adrienne maree brown | Feb 17, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Stewarding the Future

adrienne maree brown invites YES! readers to join her in writing 鈥渇an fiction and fan poetics for the future.鈥�

adrienne maree brown | Jan 21, 2022

Opinion | Health & Happiness

Murmurations: A Winter Solstice Spell

adrienne maree brown reflects on the sacred rest that comes about with the winter solstice.

adrienne maree brown | Dec 20, 2021

Issues

Survival as Transformative Justice: 鈥淟ive and Work and Be Free and Heal鈥�

Transformative Justice is not just replacing the cops. It鈥檚 a completely different worldview.

adrienne maree brown, Autumn Brown | May 10, 2021

Opinion | Democracy

Ursula K. Le Guin Is Still the Radical Feminist We Need Today

adrienne maree brown shares unabashed love for the visionary writer, here and in the new documentary 鈥淲orlds of Ursula K. Le Guin.鈥�

adrienne maree brown | Aug 7, 2019

Social Justice

What Your Body Has to Do With Social Change

Using somatics to explore trauma can help make authentic connection and collectivity more possible.

adrienne maree brown | May 14, 2019

Democracy

How the Wonder of Nature Can Inspire Social Justice Activism

The complex systems of the natural world can open our eyes to a new way of being.

adrienne maree brown | Feb 1, 2018

Health & Happiness

A Letter to Ursula Le Guin After Her Departure

When I lost hope in this world, you offered me a plethora of fully formed universes to learn from.

adrienne maree brown | Jan 24, 2018

Issues

We're Young, Passionate, and Bent on Justice: Why #BlackLivesMatter Is Irresistible

The people dying are moms and dads, kids and teenagers, nerdy, quiet boys and girls. This movement is showing what wholeness looks like and demanding an uncompromised justice.

adrienne maree brown | Feb 24, 2015

Issues

Change Is Divine: How Sci Fi Visionary Octavia Butler Influenced This Detroit Revolutionary

鈥淭he ideas in Butler鈥檚 fiction challenge us to contend with our own choices and take responsibility for our own power.鈥�

adrienne maree brown | Jun 28, 2014

Issues

Generation Mixed: Breaking the Race Barrier

How the under-35 set is breaking the race barrier.

adrienne maree brown | Mar 5, 2010

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