How To Bend Reality with adrienne maree brown

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Everything humanity has ever created – the good and the bad – started with imagination. But what if we could harness the power of imagination to build a truly just future for Black people? To dream so big the world as it exists can’t even contain our vision? We spoke with adrienne maree brown, an author and activist behind many books, including "Octavia's Brood" and "Emergent Strategy," that explore visionary ways to build a joyful, liberated future for Black people using nature, science fiction, pleasure, and afrofuturism as jumping off points. If we’re going to build a liberated Black future, we’ve got to dream big. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people! PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at https://BlackHistoryYear.com. Most people do 5 or 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference. Thanks for supporting the work. The Black History Year production team includes Tareq Alani, Abeni Jones, Patrick Sanders, Tasha Taylor, William Anderson, Jareyah Bradley, Brooke Brown, Shonda Buchanan, Briona Lamback, Akua Tay, Leslie Taylor-Grover, and Darren Wallace. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Ivana Tucker, who also edits the podcast. Black History Year’s Executive Producer is Julian Walker. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Eric Tubman did not wake up one day with a strategy.
0:09.8	She woke up from a dream.
0:11.6	She saw that her people were free, right?
0:14.2	There were what?
0:15.2	Seven, eight generations of slavery at that point.
0:17.0	There was no guidelines to be like, yeah, we can be free.
0:21.4	She imagined it, and then she bent reality.
0:24.4	And I think we all have to do that.
0:28.8	What if I told you that the ability to imagine is humanity's most powerful tool.
0:34.8	And our most dangerous weapon, oppressors used imagination to build a world where black
0:42.4	bodies were enslaved to shadow.
0:45.7	After hundreds of years of enslavement, Harriet Tubman imagined and manifested what seemed
0:51.6	impossible, a life of freedom.
0:55.4	What if we could do the same?
0:57.2	What if, like Tubman, we could bend reality to fit a more just, beautiful, liberated vision
1:04.6	for black life, unlike anything we've ever seen in our lifetimes?
1:09.8	I'm Jay from Push Black, and today we're talking about the future.
1:15.8	So we talk a lot about history on this podcast, but it's just as important to talk about
1:20.7	the future.
1:21.7	What it's going to mean to be black in 50 years, in 100.
1:25.1	For ourselves, our kids, our grands, and great-grands, but you got to get creative to see beyond
1:31.2	what's here.
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