Jul 22, 2023
When people think the same idea and move in the same direction, that’s a cult. When people think many different ideas and move in the same direction, that’s a movement.
Loretta Ross
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When people think the same idea and move in the same direction, that’s a cult. When people think many different ideas and move in the same direction, that’s a movement.
Loretta Ross
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TODAY!!! 6pm EST/ 3pm PST!! We are absolutely elated to be having author, activist, scholar, and doula, @adriennemareebrown, joining us once again for #MECCAcon! #adriennemareebrown is the author of #PleasureActivism: The Politics of Feeling Good, #EmergentStrategy : Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of #OctaviasBrood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. FRIDAY, October 30th 6pm EST/ 3pm PST watch HERE:: bit.ly/meccaconyt https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-j-14M4FO/?igshid=e60zva0uvgut
TOMORROWWWWWW!!! We are absolutely elated to be having author, activist, scholar, and doula, @adriennemareebrown, joining us once again for #MECCAcon! #adriennemareebrown is the author of #PleasureActivism: The Politics of Feeling Good, #EmergentStrategy : Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of #OctaviasBrood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. FRIDAY, October 30th 6pm EST/ 3pm PST watch HERE:: bit.ly/meccaconyt https://www.instagram.com/p/CG7q5gWMXkC/?igshid=1abwrj5batwru
by adrienne maree brown In grassroots organizing, it matters not just what we build, but how we build. When faced with the urgent need to respond to an unfolding calamity like the Trump presidency, it can be tempting to take shortcuts, to rush into responding in emergency mode. This short excerpt from adrienne maree brown’s...
Close-up of the fifteen #EmergentStrategy-themed #pomegranate #SurpriseBalls that went out in my #yuletide #patreonrewards art medicine boxes. I’d love to send one (maybe octopus instead of pomegranate?!) to @adriennemareebrown if anyone has a mailing address! https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vzOgNgbon/?igshid=p1vf4qf74ouv
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Here's a small selection of what went out in this #WinterSolstice Patreon Rewards box! • Pomegranate #EmergentStrategy-themed #surpriseballs! I made a little game out of this: as you unwrap the balls to reveal the goodies inside, check the Principles of Emergent Strategy card and try to guess which principle each piece represents! Credit = @adriennemareebrown Persephone ate three pomegranate seeds in the underworld and this bound her to the cycles of nature, of death and rebirth. • #Ecoprint with #rosemaling #kurbitz, a Scandinavian folk-art painting style, finished with mineral pigment watercolors. • Cranberries fermented with Doug Fir in local organic raw honey. Bonus: each berry had to be stabbed with a fork for the honey to penetrate. As I did so, I said a prayer for the death of harmful paradigms and systems: "Death to Patriarchy, Death to the State." 🙂 • Homemade cannabis #CBD rub. From my dear friend @sukihealingarts Suki Ciappara >>> sukihealingarts.com. • A cozy house kit: boil the contents of these little paper homes for tea or just to cleanse your space with natural fragrance. • Moon + Star Ornaments. ∙ Cut paper snowflakes, houses, trees. Not pictured: • Burn kit for blessings in 2020. • Moon cards: Moon phases remind us that the only constant is change. That it’s ok to sometimes shine and sometimes hide. That you don’t have to be perfect to be whole. • A selection of prints. • #Lebkuchen with ginger and Doug Fir needle glaze - a German take on gingerbread. • Balsam fir + citrus bath salts. May these gifts be a blessing to you and your family as the days finally become longer once again. You are LOVED. You are a BLESSING. You are SACRED. You have DIGNITY. You have WISDOM and GIFTS for the WHOLE. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6lvY9hABWc/?igshid=1x9uqt85j5vtx
Opening :: During my Jesus year I was invited to create a piece, a new work, that embodies the principles of communion, the principles of discipleship, the principles of human evolution/expansion and the embodiment of love. I became a student of #OctiviaButler and @adriennemareebrown as she gave us a road map through her book #EmergentStrategy. I was asked in this year to generate an offering that crystallize my learning on leadership, spirit, grace and compassion. Through this work I have been given the opportunity to expand my capacity to be more human and call into being a radically imaginative next 33 years around the sun. May the universe continue to show up and give me projects, tasks and assignments to unleash my soul on this planet and may I lean into those opportunities with the courage that is housed inside the depths of my ancestor’s grace. It is a humbling act to have resources, it is privileged to be able to share those resources that are poured in. I hope to never lose sight of that. Thanks @sade1111 for saying yes to @natblacktheatre coming on board for this project! Thank to my Alma mater @nyutisch ETW for the invite. ———————————————————————— #BlackJoy #Sacred #MyJob #MyJourney #NewBeginnings #MyJoy #MyGlory #Tuesday #NYU #NewPlay #ArtHeals #BlackBoyMagic #Alchemist #Light #Devised #Adventure #Directing. Reposted from @jaymc86 https://www.instagram.com/p/B5DKYu_JFW-/?igshid=19fm8u1ivs2m6
On adrienne maree brown’s “Lineage”
“Relationships are everything.”
In her excerpt of “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds,” adrienne maree brown draws the picture of lineage on the basis of “critical connections” and the distribution of information, a concept borrowed from Margaret Wheatley. This very connection ties in one key individual mentioned in brown’s introduction to her book that highlights the importance of connections and forms of information sharing through the arts media.
Invincible, also known as “ill Weaver,” is a rapper sprung from the streets of Detroit and this concept of gathering chaos and stringing together information for movement work, an ideology shared among brown and her aforementioned peers, shaped her very being from the start. Having lived in Israel for most of her childhood and only returning to the States at the age of 7, Invincible had a later development in the English language compared to most native-born children of her age. But it was this lack of knowledge, a seemingly chaotic language that was cryptic in both tongue and appearance, that pushed forth the learning and eventual development of her skills in the English language as ill Weaver pieces together different words in rap music, forming this thoughtful connection, the overlying theme of the idea of lineage, based initially on rhyming schemes of the lyrics and eventually on their individual meanings.
The collective project labelled as Complex Movements, inspired by the works of other thinkers such as Grace Lee Boggs who also plays a prominent role in brown’s shaping of her ideologies, calls forth social justice and, as Invincible puts it, “radical imagination,” through complex story-telling and interactions. As a forefront proponent of this project, Invincible incorporates her interpretation of a recent exhibition called Beware of the Dandelions during one of its conventions stating, “It takes a lot of relationship building, a lot of conversations, but it also takes spaces like this pod. Even if people aren’t willing to have a conversation with each other they might be willing to be transported to an otherworldly, science fiction parallel universe in a pod-like spaceship.”
A connection through simply conversations may seem ideal but a connection through a medium that challenges the mind of the parties involved, the science fiction channeling of a “parallel universe,” can bring meaning to the idea of Margaret Wheatley’s “critical connections” that is so vital to painting the image of lineage. And this encouragement to connect during an era of youths so knitted to entertainment and interactive technologies and media is perfectly exemplified throughout Beware of the Dandelions’ space filled with these mystical video-mapped screens that takes the form of a futuristic polyhedron pod. The strategy behind the exhibition itself carries the meaning of relationship and the connections made between the several artists the likes of Sage Crump, LO5, and of our focus, Invincible as they work in collaboration with one another, sharing information and organizing them into a movement work, to ultimately bring forth this opportunity for their community to explore relationships and share these connections through visual arts and sound.