Emergent Strategy was me looking for, what does it look like to organize with integrity? What does it look like to come into communities with listening at the forefront? That threshold also showed me what my leadership looks like.įor more Thresholds, visit us at. It’s this way of being that, to me, goes so counter to what the natural world is actually telling us, or goes counter to the option we’re being given at all times to be otherwise. So, there’s nothing we can really do.”Įverything can be branded. But he’s the one who has access to the money.
Because a lot of people are like, “We see you, we hear you, we believe you. I learned in that moment how privilege works. If a lot of people of color or a lot of women or a lot of people who are working class are all leaving at the same time, there’s something structural happening in that space. Butler’s archive at the Huntington Library in PasadenaĪdrienne maree brown: I was like, “I don’t want to stay here if the organization is like this.” And a lot of the women of color all left right at the same time, which is always something to look out for that’s a good bellwether sign.
Left Turn Magazine’s 2010 issue “ Other Worlds are Possible: Visionary Fiction, Culture, and Organizing” edited by Walidah Imarisha.The League of Young Voters (or The League of Pissed-Off Voters) Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! In this episode, adrienne maree brown ( Grievers) joins Jordan to talk about the moment she learned what her style of leadership looked like, about the power of saying things aloud, and about her love of Octavia Butler and finding her way to writing fiction. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the essay collection Thin Places, and brought to you by Lit Hub Radio. This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write.
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