adrienne maree brown is the author of Grievers; Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Meditation; We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change; Changing Worlds and the coeditor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the cohost of the podcasts How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables. adrienne is rooted in Durham.