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Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. I suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories. It is our right and responsibility to create a new world.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
What was Donella Meadow's vision for Bioregional Learning Centres? - The Really Regenerative Centre
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One major emerging lesson: We have to create futures in which everyone doesn’t have to be the same kind of person. That’s the problem with most utopias for me: they are presented as mono value, a new greener more local monoculture where everyone gardens and plays the lute and no one travels… And I don’t want to go there!45
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Vanessa Mason • Issue #29: Heroism and Belonging
An example of how to be intentionally undisciplined and accountable to legacy at the same time.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
we
cannot change.
“we do not believe we can create compelling pathways from being harm doers to being healed, and to growing.
“we do not believe we can hold the complexity of a gray situation.
“we do not believe in our own complexity.
“we do not believe we can navigate conflict and struggle in principled ways.
“we can only handle binary thinking: good/... See more
adrienne maree brown • adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
Critique as a participant who is shaping the work. Be willing to do whatever task is required of you, whatever you are capable of, feed people, spread the word, write pieces, make art, listen, take action, etc. Be able to say: ‘“I invest my energy in what I want to see grow. I belong to efforts I deeply believe in and help shape those.”
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
I also believe pleasure generated through our own power should resonate as far into the future as possible. If I eat something that tastes super-delicious but makes me sluggish and tired and sends me into a spiral of body shaming, then that was not a pleasurable experience, no matter how juicy and delicious it was. However, if I eat something fresh
... See moreadrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
to quote adrienne maree brown, the author of Emergent Strategy, who contrasts ‘mile wide, inch deep movements with inch wide, mile deep movements that schism the existing paradigm.’