

Her philosophy, based on Octavia Butler’s guiding philosophy of the Earthseed books, is that God Is Change. She is matter of-fact about the coming destruction we face–of our environment, of our resources, of our governments. “It was a revelation to discover adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

Brown not only inspires me to resist, but to do in the most beautiful, joyful, creative, sustainable, collective and effective ways.” – Andrea, J. “Emergent Strategy is an examination of where our movements have been and an offering of a framework for resistance that is rooted in the miracles of nature, decentralized, collective leadership, and personal, relational, organizational, and movement-wide transformation. The result of “emergent strategy” workshops adrienne has been holding for years, this book has a built-in audience like (and overlapping with) the following she and Walidah Imarisha built for Octavia’s Brood.Self-transformation and social transformation are inextricably linked in this how-to for living the life you want to be living every day, while building the world you want to inhabit.From the Publisher: In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.
