adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who embody ways of seeing and becoming and who point the way forward to the world we want to inhabit. And adrienne maree brown, who has inspired worlds of social creativity with her notions of "pleasure activism" and "emergent strategy," is surely one of these. We're listening with new ears as she brings together so many of the threads that have recurred in this season of On Being: on looking the harsh complexity of this world full in the face while dancing with joy as life force and fuel, and on keeping clear eyes on the reasons for ecological despair while giving oneself over to a loving apprenticeship with the natural world as teacher and guide. A love of visionary science fiction also finds a robust place in her work and this conversation. She altogether shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking — the cultivation of old and new ways of seeing, towards a transformative wholeness of living.

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0:00.0	The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding like to look around the world for what he called live human signposts
0:09.2	Human beings who embody ways of seeing and becoming that point the way forward to the world we want to
0:16.4	inhabit.
0:18.0	And Adrian Ray Brown, my guest this hour, is surely one of these. She models ideas that bring worlds into being with
0:27.5	a win-some language like pleasure activism and emergent strategy.
0:33.8	And I'm listening to her now with new ears as she brings together so many of the threads
0:38.7	that have recurred in this season of on-being.
0:42.3	Looking the harsh complexity of this world full in the face,
0:46.8	while she dances with joy as life force and fuel.
0:52.1	Keeping clear eyes on the reasons for ecological despair,
0:56.0	while giving herself over to a loving apprenticeship
1:00.0	with the natural world as teacher and guide.
1:04.0	A love of visionary science fiction also finds a robust place in her and in this conversation.
1:11.0	She altogether shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world
1:17.4	over against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking,
1:22.2	inspiring us to cultivate old and fractured and
1:26.2	Inspiring us to cultivate old and new ways of seeing
1:29.9	towards a transformative wholeness of living
1:34.0	I'm Krista Tippett and this is on being. Adrian Marie Brown is the author of several books shaping new generations.
1:47.0	She lived for many years in Detroit and now lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she was as we spoke.
1:54.8	Hi there.
1:58.8	Hi, how are you? Good, it's Krista. I'm so happy to meet you. It's so
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