Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee, all the best. I'd like to begin today's episode

with a couple of questions. Quote, if we understand that we cannot cancel other living beings from the

world, then how do we find dignified ways of being in communities that face, address, and evolve

beyond harmful patterns.

If we can accept that each of us has some responsibility for holding the massive changes

needed for our survival, then how do we hold each other close enough to learn our hardest

lessons?

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These are just two of many insightful questions that the author Adrian

Marie Brown asks at the outset of their most recent book, Loving Corrections. These are questions

that I've asked myself as well. Longtime listeners know that part of the core mission of breaking

down patriarchy is to deconstruct

patriarchy intelligently and compassionately, being hard on systems but soft on people. So I was so

excited to discover this book, which talks about living in right relationship with one another,

and how even across wildly divergent bubbles of

information, we can still honor each other's humanity and we can still learn from each other

and cultivate compassion, justice, and love. And to talk about all of these things today is the

author of Loving Corrections, Adrienne Marie Brown. Welcome, Adrienne. Hi, Amy, thanks for having me.

I am so excited for this conversation today. Adrian Marie Brown. Welcome, Adrian. Hi, Amy. Thanks for having me. I am so excited for this conversation today. Adrian Marie Brown, she, they are their pronouns, is growing a garden of healing ideas.

Informed by 27 years of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship, and doulo work.

Adrian has nurtured emergent strategy, pleasure activism, radical imagination, and loving

correction as ideas and practices for transformation.

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