#Adrienne Brown

[picturebookshelf]

Dinosaur: Two of a Kind (2000)

Story: Judy Katschke -- Art: Justin Wyatt, Lori Tyminski, Ken Becker, Sam Corea, Adrienne Brown & Brent Ford

[thelonguepuree]

White flight, generally framed as a postwar phenomenon, has historically been understood to be a product of developments such as the GI Bill, the Highway Administration, and the FHA, as well as the second wave of the Great Migration after 1940. But contextualizing these midcentury phenomena in relation to early skyscraper narratives allows us to recognize the term white flight as a misnomer of sorts. Presuming whiteness to be a preexisting and stable category that simply moved from one location to another, the descriptor white flight gives the false impression that whiteness at midcentury was a concrete identity whose subjects simply relocated in reaction to the growing presence of racial others in cities. But representations of the skyscraper from its early era reveal the extent to which whiteness was already being actively reconstituted in this preceding moment.… The midcentury mass suburbs became a place to forge a broader coalition of whiteness—assimilating ethnic varieties into a broader racial umbrella through systems of redlining. The suburbs were not vessels receiving whiteness—rather, these spaces helped to remake this category by tethering whiteness more strongly to homeownership and making it a financial asset belonging to specific protected neighborhoods.

Adrienne Brown, The Black Skyscraper (2017)

[sonyachristian]

Moments that take our breath away - May 2024

[katrinapavela]

Your no makes the way for your yes.—Adrienne Brown

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[fairydusks]

Btw from now til the end of November AK Press is giving away ebooks for free 🤍

[loneberry]

I don’t think I will be able to forgive those who looked away in this moment. And I’m increasingly convinced that those who support Israel’s war on the Palestinians are either sadistic monsters or have their heads in the sand. Anyone with even a single sand-sized grain of moral sense would feel deep stomach-churning disgust at what is happening now.

[nymphaiofmoros]

* . * · 𝓂orning 𝒹eer ☆ 。🦌 * 。☆

[bookquotesfrombooks]

“I believe that we are in an imagination battle, and almost everything about how we orient towards our bodies is shaped by fearful imaginations. Imaginations that fear Blackness, brownness, fatness, queerness, disability, difference. Our radical imagination is a tool for decolonization, for reclaiming our right to shape our lived reality.”

adrienne maree brown

Pleasure Activism

[uwmspeccoll]

Woman Writer of the Week

In my ongoing quest to discover the folk literature in Special Collections, I was excited to find a book of fairy tales that were retold as well as illustrated by women! It is always very exciting to find a twofer, and I feel these two compliment each other very well.

The book in question is Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Scotland, which contains six popular retellings by American librarian, writer, authority in children's literature, and collector of international fairy tales for children��Virginia Haviland (1911-1988), with illustrations by multiple Caldecott Honor awardee Adrienne Adams (1906-2002). This first edition copy was published simultaneously in Boston and Toronto by Little, Brown & Company in 1963.

This book is from the Favorite Fairy Tales series, which consists of sixteen volumes, each focusing on fairy tales compiled from sixteen different countries, retold in “simple, faithful versions”. Part of Haviland’s reasoning behind compiling these stories was to “make them more accessible for children.” Haviland was considered a pioneer for her work in compiling these tales into dedicated books.

Adams began her career first as a freelance designer of displays, murals, textiles, and greeting cards. After marrying children’s book writer John Lonzo Anderson (1905-1993), she illustrated his book Bag of Smoke that began her career as an illustrator. She became a full-time illustrator in 1952 and illustrated more than thirty books that ranged from contemporary stories to fairy tales. The media for her colored illustrations ranged from tempera, gouache, watercolor, to crayon.

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- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Swamp Thing 1982

[nomorekyriarchy]

These teachers also helped me see the limitations of restorative justice — that it often meant restoring conditions that were fundamentally harmful and unequal, unjust. If the racialized system of capitalism has produced such inequality that someone is hungry and steals a purse to resource a meal, returning the purse with an apology or community service does nothing to address that hunger. These teachers brought me to transformative justice, the work of addressing harm at the root, outside the mechanisms of the state, so that we can grow into right relationship with each other.

adrienne maree brown, "we will not cancel us and other dreams of transformative justice."

[laicolasse]

my small offering, based on the lyrics to the protest song ceasefire by adrienne maree brown. please listen to the beautiful rendition in the link, sing the words, and make them real

[blackqueernotables]

adrienne maree brown: author, editor, activist

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

black sheep |1935|

[earthmoonlotus]

Then we remembered ourselves, remembered that trust is not earned - it is how we begin. It is the first thing we do. Learning to trust is returning to a beginner's mind, returning to our nature. We are meant to need each-other.

- Adrienne Maree Brown, from her essay "How We Learned (Are Learning) Transformative Justice".

Found in the anthology "Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement", compiled and edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha