Embracing Pleasure, Fractal Responsibility, and the Power of Our Imagination

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

adrienne maree brown is a social justice facilitator and the bestselling author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; and We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice. She cohosts the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. In this episode of Insights at the Edge (which first aired as part of our Walking Together series), Tami Simon speaks with adrienne about the concept of "fractal responsibility" and how the world changes as we change ourselves; engaging in "critical relationships" and finding the courage to hold ourselves accountable; cultivating 1,000 percent honesty and trust; figuring out your right work—or what adrienne calls "your most elegant next step"; pleasure activism and "reclaiming your erotic yes"; holding the grief and suffering that seem beyond our capacity; and imagining a future that works for the majority of us.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.3	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment
0:09.9	to introduce you to the new SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.9	The SoundsTrue Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making
0:20.4	transformational education widely available.
0:24.8	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness,
0:33.6	and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.0	The SoundsTrue Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools
0:46.6	to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing
0:53.4	countries.
0:54.7	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
1:08.3	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.9	Today, my guest is Adrian Marie Brown.
1:14.5	Adrian Marie Brown is a social justice facilitator who's focused on black liberation, a pleasure
1:22.1	activist, a doula and healer, and the author of several books, including Emergent Strategy,
1:30.1	Holding Change, and the New York Times bestseller, Pleasure Activism.
1:36.0	In her book, Emergent Strategy, here's how Adrian describes herself.
1:42.4	I'm an anti-sister, daughter, W-O-E, which stands for Working on Excellence, a writer,
1:50.9	a coach, mentor, mediator, pleasure activist, sci-fi scholar, to row reader, which,
1:58.9	cheerleader, singer, philosopher, queer, black, multiracial, lover of life, living in Detroit.
2:07.6	Adrian is indeed all of that.
2:10.3	She also inspires me to look at what I want to say yes to when it comes to being a
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