in the media

interviews

2025

‘The Wild Robot’ earned a surprising and important honor this award season (amb on climate)
CNN, February 20, 2025
Earthly Reads: adrienne maree brown on Loving Corrections
For the Wild, January 26, 2025
Discussing Octavia Butler & the LA fires (segment starts 40 mins in)
The New Abnormal, January 17, 2025

2024

Sowing seeds of love in our “garden of ideas”
Green Dreamer, December 10, 2024
This Is How You Change A Conservative's Mind
Novara FM, November 12, 2024
Loving Corrections & Finding Common Ground
Attunement with Lauren Jauregui, Oct 31, 2024
How to Make Loving Corrections with adrienne maree brown
We Can Do Hard Things, Oct 16, 2024
“It’s Not About Fixing People” – Yes, You Can Tackle Difficult Conversations In A Loving Way
Service95, October 8, 2024
Loving Corrections with adrienne maree brown
Around the Way Curls, Oct 2, 2024
“Loving Corrections” creates a roadmap for healing
Reckon, Sept 20, 2024
Empathy in Activism with amb
The Majority Report, Sept 12, 2024
Loving Corrections Wants Us to Talk About the Hard Stuff
Teen Vogue, September 9, 2024
Loving Corrections Offers a Realistic, Compassionate Script for Liberation
Vogue, August 30, 2024
'Loving Corrections' Is a Handbook for Hard Conversations
The Cut, August 29, 2024
“Loving Corrections” to Build Collective Power
Yes Magazine's Rising Up with Sonali, August 22, 2024
Is There Such A Thing As Constructive Criticism?
August 21, 2024, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness
How ‘loving corrections’ could transform our relationships with one another — and the Earth
August 21, 2024, by Claire Elise Thompson for Grist
adrienne maree brown offers loving course corrections for a world on the brink
August 20, 2024, by Syrus Marcus Ware for Xtra Mag
amb on the Slowdown: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Fady Joudah
August 20, 2024, NPR's the Slowdown
Durham Author and Activist adrienne maree brown On Navigating Relationships With Care
August 6, 2024, INDY Week
Re-release: On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life (On Being with Krista Tippett)
July 3, 2024, On Being
How to Imagine a Better Future for Democracy: adrienne maree brown and Baratunde Thurston
June 3, 2024, TED
"Loving Corrections" is "a refreshing and earnest meditation"
May 21, 2024, Publishers Weekly
Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024
February 9, 2024, Ms Magazine
A Sovereign Journey With Our Body
January 22, 2024, Fat Joy Podcast

2023

We Can Do Hard Things ep 266: How to Love Family When You’re Divided On Beliefs (with Autumn Brown)
We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle, December 15, 2023
Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos: How Do I Tell My Parents I'm Not a Republican?
November 29, 2023
We Can Do Hard Things ep. 239: Why Are We Never Satisfied?
We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle, September 7, 2023
Alchemizing Black Futures - with N.K Jemisin, Nalo Hopkinson, & Brandon Wint
Massy Books, June 1, 2023
adrienne maree brown and Prentis Hemphill On Restoring Our Rhythm
Atmos, May 1 2023

2022

Healing Through Hurt
The Sound Bath with Aja Monet, November 17, 2022
Climate Anxiety is Real
Chasing Life, August 9, 2022
No One Can Mess With adrienne maree brown’s Sense of Self
StyleLikeU, June 16, 2022
You Don’t Have To Be Miserable While Doing Important Work
Ten Percent Happier podcast, June 6, 2022
adrienne maree brown on Writing Our Future
For the Wild podcast, March 18, 2022

2021

Grief and Survival: adrienne maree brown’s debut novella is a heavy hitter - interviewed by April Baer
Stateside podcast, October 4, 2021
adrienne maree brown on Why ‘All Organizing is Science Fiction’
Vulture, September 10, 2021
Wisdom of Small Joys: adrienne maree brown & Ross Gay with Nandi Comer
September 9, 2021
This is How adrienne maree brown Held Change and Inspired a Generation of Movements
Colorlines, June 29, 2021
How Octavia Butler’s Sci-Fi Dystopia Became A Constant In A Man’s Evolution - adrienne reads Butler excerpts for a personal narrative by Ramtin Arablouei
NPR's Throughline, February 18, 2021
Touch & pleasure are essential: Here’s how to give them to yourself - interviewed by Simran Seth
NPR's LifeKit, February 18, 2021
Cancel Culture Is Real, But adrienne maree brown Says We Should Be Careful About Throwing People Away
Shondaland, February 9, 2021

2020

50 Years of Imagining Radical Feminist Futures: A Conversation with Angela Davis and adrienne maree brown
November 17, 2020
Are We Imagining A Better Future Into Existence?
Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, November 11, 2020

2019

How To Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable - part of a series of speakers
October 10, 2019
adrienne maree brown on Why Joy is a Form of Resistance
Bon Appétit, May 20, 2019
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speeches

2024

Commencement speech @ "The People's Graduation" for Columbia student protesters
May 16, 2024
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features

2024

Loving Corrections is "probing, fierce, and honest"
Foreward Reviews, July 2024
Rep. Maxine Waters performs adrienne's "Make My Name" for Atlantic Records compilation
Aug 16, 2024, Atlantic Records "On Imagination"

2023

adrienne maree brown Receives 2023 Bessie Angel Award
Sept 29, 2023

2022

YES! Pleasure Summer Issue, guest edited and with framing essay by adrienne maree brown
YES! Magazine, Summer 2022
“We Are Earth”
Atmos, March 29, 2022

2021

Redefining Feminism MasterClass with Gloria Steinem
MasterClass
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