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"Grievers" interview with Vulture (2021)
"We Are Earth" (Atmos, March 29, 2022)
A Roadmap Away from 'Cancel Culture' and Towards Transformative Justice (KQED, 2021)
Accountable to Earth: Murmurations (Yes Magazine, Sept. 2022)
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Black Women Need To Unlearn the Pattern of Martrydom (Zora, 2020)
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Bon Appétit Interview (2019)
By Any Means Necessary
Can Whole Foods Co-exist With The Homegrown Food Movement (2012)
Cancel Culture Is Real, But adrienne maree brown Says We Should Be Careful About Throwing People Away (Shondaland, 2021)
Celebrate Love, for Truthout on Valentine's Day
Centering Pleasure in Your Activism: Lessons from adrienne maree brown (Shado, 2021)
Chicago Tribune Interview (2019)
Colorlines interview with Dani McClain (2021)
Cook, Eat, Talk: Midwifing Movement
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Dramatizing the "death" of environmentalism doesn't help urban people of color, or anyone else
Dream Beyond the Wounds
Everyone Is My Teacher: A Journey Towards Spiritual Leadership (pg 24)
First Person: adrienne maree brown Finds Joy in Finding Her People (WBUR, 2021)
Generation Mixed
Gossamer "as told to" Patty Carnevale (2021)
How Octavia Butler's visions of the future have transformed a generation of readers (Alternet, 2021)
If The Dead Could Spit (Saul Williams Interview)
ILY interview on love and relationship
In 2019, Let’s Resolve to Organize With Love in the Face of Apocalypse
In This Era of Change, We Must Manifest Octavia Butler's Earthseed
In This Era of Change, We Must Manifest Octavia Butler's Earthseed (essay for The Portalist, 2020)
Indya Moore Unleashed (cover interview for V Magazine, 2021)
Interview for The Creative Independent
Interview with Zenobia Jeffries at Yes! Magazine
Love & the Apocalypse (Yes Magazine Roundtable)
Murmurations: A Spell for the Fall Equinox
Murmurations: A Summer Solstice Spell (YES! Magazine, June 21, 2022)
Murmurations: A Winter Solstice Spell (YES! Magazine, Dec. 20, 2021)
Murmurations: Accountability Begins Within (May 31, 2022)
Murmurations: Accountable To Our Ancestors (YES! Magazine, October 27, 2022)
Murmurations: Breaking Is Part Of Healing (August, 2022, YES! Magazine)
Murmurations: Building A Compassionate Economics (YES! Magazine, Feb. 17, 2022)
Murmurations: How To Be Accountable With Your Words (YES! Magazine, April 27, 2022)
Murmurations: Love Looks Like Accountability (YES! Magazine, July 25, 2022)
Murmurations: Realizing Our Abolitionist Dreams (YES! Magazine, March 29, 2022)
Murmurations: Returning To The Whole (YES! Magazine, June 29, 2022)
Murmurations: Spring Solstice Spell (March 20, 2022)
Murmurations: Stewarding the Future (YES! Magazine, Jan. 21, 2022)
NVTV Interview
On Ursula Le Guin for Yes! Magazine
Radical Doula
Sublevel: Report – Recommendations for Right Now From a Future
Thank You, Egypt
The Emancipation of Mimi for 68to05
The Lit Review Podcast on Emergent Strategy
The Lit Review Podcast on Octavia's Brood
The Pleasure Dome (Bitch magazine column)
This Valentine’s Day, Let’s Choose Love Over Borders
Transforming Ruckus: Actions Speak Louder
Trauma Makes Weapons of Us All – Interviewed by Justin Scott Campbell (2018)
Writer adrienne maree brown uses her positive obsessions to shed light on complex issues (Georgia Straight, March 8, 2022)
YES! Pleasure Issue, guest edited and with framing essay by adrienne maree brown (Summer 2022)

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"Abolition Is" introduction with Patrisse Cullors and Prentis Hemphill
"Creating Is Universal" (Bitches on Comics podcast, Nov. 24, 2021)
"Long Time Practice: Decolonizing Your Imagination with Afro-rithms" (Long Time Academy podcast, Dec. 3, 2021)
"We Are In A Time of New Suns" (On Being with Krista Tippett, June 23, 2022)
50 Years of Imagining Radical Feminist Futures with Angela Davis
A Black, Queer, Feminist Perspective on 'Cancel Culture' (Jefferson Exchange, 2021)
A Jailbreak of the Imagination (Under the Tree with Bill Ayers, 2021)
ACLU's "At Liberty" podcast (March 3, 2022)
Active Hope podcast (2021)
adrienne maree brown on grief and transformation
adrienne maree brown on Writing Our Future (For the Wild podcast, March 18, 2022)
Air Go Interview (2019)
amb on Cancellation, Abolition, and Healing (The Final Straw, 2021)
amb on Lit Hub's "Thresholds" podcast (April 6, 2022)
Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness (Laura Flanders Show, 2021)
BBC Radio on Brecht poem: Pleasure
Beyond Prisons podcast (Nov. 12, 2021)
Big Mood, Little Mood with Danny Lavery (Nov. 16, 2021)
Bitch Talk podcast (2021)
Build as You Fight (On Grace and James Boggs)
Capitalism Vs. Time (United States of Anxiety, 2021)
Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Climate Anxiety Is Real
Chicago Humanities Festival conversation with Charlene Carruthers (2019)
CIIS Conversation with Sonya Shah on Abolition and Pleasure Activism
Collections with Michelle Brown, Interview (2019)
Crafting with Ursula: adrienne maree brown on Social Justice & Science Fiction (Between the Covers podcast, May 9, 2022)
Creative Resistance (conversation with Kendra Hicks & Toshi Reagon, 2021)
Critical Connections (Allied Media Conference 20 Year Anniversary Podcast)
CTZN Well Podcast Interview (2019)
Emergent Strategies & Pleasure Activism (Radical Futures Now podcast, 2020)
Feminist Magazine podcast (2021)
Femme Too Deep Interview (2017)
Finding Joy During Coronavirus
Finding Our Way (podcast interview)
For the Wild Interview on Emergent Strategy (2018)
For the Wild Interview on Pleasure Activism (2019)
Fortification Podcast (2018)
Good Nature: The pleasure of not feeling guilty (Selfridges Hot Air podcast, 2021)
Grievers interview with April Baer (2021)
Healing Justice Pleasure Activism Book Club with amb and Amita Swadhin (2019)
Healing Justice Podcast Interview (Emergent Strategy)
Healing Justice Podcast: Cast a Spell with amb (2017)
Healing Justice: Imagination and Connection (2017)
How To Bend Reality (Black History Year podcast, 2021)
How We Get Through (Faith Matters Webinar)
In Conversation with Chani Nicholas
In Conversation with Omkari Williams
Interview for Down for Whatever Podcast
Interview for Hurry Slowly Podcast
Interviewed by Bitch Magazine
Interviewed by Politically Re-active
Interviewed by Radically Selfish podcast (2018)
Interviewed for Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness
Interviewed for The Final Straw
Interviewed on Call Your Girlfriend
Interviewed on Hope and Hard Pills Podcast
It's Going Down podcast (2021)
Laura Flanders Show
Living In This Queer Body, Interview (2019)
Making Small & Tender Changes (Shaping the Shift podcast, 2020)
Marking The Path podcast (2021)
Microcosms of Liberation, Justice, and Pleasure (All That We Are podcast, April 7, 2022)
National Black Theater: Founders Symposium
Nekkid Conversations podcast (2021)
New Years Practice: Cast a Spell with amb
Next Economy Now Podcast – with Ryan Honeyman
Octavia Butler's Vision of the Future Have Transformed Generations of Readers (Democracy Now, 2021)
On Intergenerational Activism with adrienne maree brown & Fania Davis
Parables in Iteration (Conversation with Toshi Reagon, Shayna Smalls, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Manju Rajendran) (2018)
Plant Yourself Interview, (2019)
Pleasure Activism (Ebony's Bones, 2021)
Pleasure Activism on The Laura Flanders Show (2019)
Pleasure is the Measure: Come As You Are podcast with Emily Nagoski (Nov. 16, 2022)
Possibilities Podcast Interview (2019)
Radical Permission with Sonya Renee Taylor
Raising Rebels Interview, Hey Auntie! (2019)
Relationship Alive! Podcast, Interview (2019)
Sex Gets Real Podcast (interview with amb) (2019)
Strong Feelings podcast interview
StyleLikeU What's Underneath Series – I Am Fat And Desireable
Tactile (amb interviewed Sage Crump for LANE)
Talk Nerdy podcast (2021)
The Call, Interview by Erica Williams Simon (2017)
The Full Set with Didi Delgado (podcast interview)
The Lit Review, Interviewed on the Earthseed Series (2017)
The Matriarchitects Interview (2019)
The Pleasure in Liberation – Below the Radar podcast, March 29, 2022
The Radical Politics of Pleasure (Radical Imagination podcast, 2021)
The Rhys Show podcast (2021)
The Turn On podcast
This is Hell Radio (2019)
Throughline NPR Octavia E Butler episode
Touch & Pleasure Are Essential: Here's How to Give Them to Yourself (Lifekit, 2021)
Travelers Podcast with Brother Ali – October 24, 2022
Undistracted podcast (2021)
We Can Reclaim (Sorry To Podcast This, 2020)
You Don't Have To Be Miserable While Doing Important Work (Ten Percent Happier podcast, June 6, 2022)

Publications (Books)

Dear Sister
Detroit Sci-Fi Generator
Dreaming in Public
Emergent Strategy Handbook
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office
Octavia Butler Strategic Reader
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Reflections on Octavia Butler's Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Stay Solid
Stop the Next War Now!
Transformative Justice Sci-Fi Reader
We Got Issues!

Resources

Relinquishing the Patriarchy Resource Guide

Work

BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity)
Books amb for interview or other unpaid engagement
Books amb for speaking or other paid engagements
Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
How to Survive the End of the World Podcast
Radical Doula
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