#adriennemareebrown

[milfingainteasy]

Resources, because you're not alone:

10 self-love tips for people with bipolar disorder, written by Hannah Blum, author of The Truth About Broken: The Unfixed Version of Self-Love:

https://halfway2hannah.com/2020/08/05/10-self-love-tips-for-people-with-mental-illness/

Daily bipolar mood tracker:

https://www.dbsalliance.org/wellness/wellness-toolbox/wellness-tracker/

It is more common than you think:

https://screening.mhanational.org/content/how-common-bipolar/#:~:text=About%201%20in%2040%20American,affects%20men%20and%20women%20equally.

Loving someone with bipolar disorder:

https://www.healthline.com/health/bipolar-disorder/relationship-guide#:~:text=Be%20open%3A%20It's%20vital%20to,plan%20created%20by%20their%20doctor.

Loving YOURSELF with bipolar:

https://psychcentral.com/bipolar/when-youre-struggling-with-self-loathing-in-bipolar-disorder

Get your sleep, friend, you need it:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579327/

Find your people. You deserve it:

https://www.dbsalliance.org/support/chapters-and-support-groups/find-a-support-group/

You can persuade the minds around you, but presentation matters:

https://www.camh.ca/en/driving-change/addressing-stigma

Applying logos, pathos, and ethos to advocate for mental health awareness:

https://www.ipl.org/essay/Mental-Health-Ethos-Pathos-And-Logos-P33QJEQMG5PT

Adrienne Maree Brown and Pleasure Activism, a response and promotion:

https://minnesotareview.wordpress.com/2020/02/19/why-i-am-reading-adrienne-maree-browns-pleasure-activism/

[sistahscifi]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER!

June 22nd, 2024 would have Butler's 77th birthday. Her work, from Parable of the Sower to Wild Seed, continues to impact disciplines from literature to entrepreneurship to space travel. Last Tuesday, Butler's essay, "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" originally included in @Essence in 2000, was published by @chroniclebooks with beautiful Afrofuturist artwork by Manzel Bowman (@artxman).

Butler's writing inspires activists from @ToshiReagon to Alexis Pauline Gumbs (@alexispauline), @adriennemareebrown, @WalidahImarisha to Gabrielle Wyatt Gardner (@glwyatt). Reagon created the cultural experience Parable of the Sower The Opera, which engages with communities to take meaningful actions towards climate justice. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, adrienne maree brown, and Walidah Imarisha published the "Octavia Butler Strategic Reader" and "Octavia's Brood." Gabrielle Wyatt Gardner founded The Highland Project, a nonprofit investing in the sustainability and multi-generational visions of Black women leaders designing solutions for structural change.

Swipe to be inspired by Butler's powerful call to "write yourself in," check out her literary canon, and admire artwork from "A Few Rules For Predicting the Future!"

Let us know how Octavia E. Butler inspires your life and work in the comments!

Attribution:

Image 1: @leadhighland

Video: The Charlie Rose Show, @PBS

Image 2: @theelithouse feature books published by @orbitbooks_us @hachetteus @7StoryPress

Image 3: Chronicle Books

#TheeLitHouse #octaviabutler #octaviaebutler #bestbookstackever #bookstagrammers #blackbookstagrammer #blackgirlsread #octaviaebutler #sistahscifi #Afrofuturism #ParableoftheSower #OctaviasBrood #TheHighlandProject #blackOwnedBookstore

[lmjupdates]

laurenjauregui: Face for the algo. NEW episode of @attunementpodcast with the incredible @adriennemareebrown 🤍✨ Navigating the nuance and praying for us to keep finding and building with each other the world that we’re envisioning beyond all this oppression. Have you been tuning in?👀

[chubbymuffinclub]

shooglet

Imagine how much joy I felt when I showed up to this photoshoot unknowing, and all these babes started pulling out thier @adriennemareebrown books, cookies and fudge, flowers!! 😍😍😍 If y’all don’t know her, you should get to know her because emergent strategy is currently changing the lives of so many people- and it’s helped me understand my purpose in this world and how to ground when everything feels horrible. The best( IMO) part of ES and #pleasureactivism is how it’s bringing people together right now, joined in struggle and joy, creating spaces that we want to see in the world, we are not waiting anymore. Thank you so much! @mialilyuno for collaberating to make this beautiful shoot and for the ongoing and brilliant inspiration :❤️❤️❤️

[nothingunrealistic]

asiakatedillon One of the reasons it is crucial to be in community is because no matter how ready we have been and/or are for the work ahead, no matter how committed we are to staying openhearted and to increasing our capacities to hold deep grief, rage and joy… we will ALL reach moments when we will have to rest and be cared for a bit more (think soup, and back rubs, and a friend cleaning your apartment, loving texts with no response needed, food ordered from afar…), and hopefully not because we’ve pushed ourselves beyond our capacity (though that will still happen sometimes and that’s OK!), but because rest is essential, rest is also the work - and the more people we have in our community the more we can take turns resting and receiving care. As a chronically ill, autistic person, (I’ve only known about my autism since late last year) being in consistent community is something I was totally isolated from for almost my whole life. I did not have the skills to ask for all the help I needed, because I needed so much and I did not consider myself reliable enough to return the help. I never knew when I’d be sick, or often why I was even sick - I learned late last year I’d been living my life with a severe gluten intolerance. Barely living. Sickness/trauma kept me isolated, and being isolated kept me sick/traumatized. It’s an awful catch 22. I had to learn, with the help of ongoing therapy and incredible teachers like @osopepatrisse and @adriennemareebrown - to name a few - that sometimes you are the person that needs all the care for a while, because you’ve gone so long without it and you need it in order to build your own capacity to help others - and that’s NORMAL and OK! I needed all the help - and I braved my way into calling in my community - and now… I have capacity. And I’ll always still need to rest. And I know my community has me, and now I’ve got them, too. It’s OK to need all the help for a while. Try not to let needing all the help for a while deter you from asking for it. Love you.

[samueldelany]

Join us for an in-depth interactive panel discussion on the cultural impact of Parable of the Sower with our esteemed panelists followed by a question and answer session.

PANELISTS

@AyanaJamieson, PhD is an educator, mythologist, and depth psychologist. She is the founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, a global community founded in 2011, committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work while creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. Ayana’s essay, “Far Beyond the Stars” appears in the Black Futures anthology, 51 Feminist Thinkers, Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction, and elsewhere. She is assistant professor of ethnic studies and African American studies at California State Poly.

@AdrienneMareeBrown: adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts.

Event info/reservation info here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-the-publication-of-parable-of-the-sower-tickets-699783420047

[thixcy]

Source: adriennemareebrown via instagram

[pleasureactivism]

Response to #pleasureactivism

I did not think that a book could open up some things that I had kept locked up or even forgotten about until now. I used to keep old memories, notes and souvenirs from the past, hidden in a small tin can placed on the top shelf of my closet in my bedroom back home, old connections that still linger. Even now, seeing their names come up in the list of viewers of my occasional insta story or jogging past some of the places we went.. the firsts, the good, and the trauma all seem to resurface. Being back home in Tokyo, in a safe space where I can let my feeling go, I have the 余裕 to let my feelings go and reflect on all that has happened since I moved out 3 years ago. 

The sections in the book that I had the strongest emotional response to didn’t make sense for me to share. But it was sometimes scary and uncomfortable to be made aware that the things I thought were of the past I never really got over. Now that I have more time, I hope I can give myself the space to cope a bit better and heal a bit more.

MH 

[gumstudios]

Women’s rights activists and political changemakers Gloria Steinem, Adrienne Maree Brown, Amanda Nguyen, and Tina Tchen are coming together for Masterclass to dissect the issues women have faced in the U.S., talk about their advocacy efforts and personal challenges. Shot at our Level-2 complex of stages in Sunset Park!     Produced By Red Pepper Farm Producers: Blake Ashman-Kipervaser, Laura Catargena, Alex Guerra Production Designer: Anna Kathleen Little Set: Kyle Salvatore Make up: Elizabeth Yoon Hair Stylist: Rob Lugo Wardrobe: Al Malonga   #MasterClass #feminism #GloriaSteinem #AdrienneMareeBrown #AmandaNguyen #TinaTchen #feministmovement (at Sunset Park, Brooklyn, N.Y) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX1YVDclWHX/?utm_medium=tumblr

[eddievillanueva]

“The Garden Time Book Club discussing WE WILL NOT CANCEL US by Adrienne Maree Brown” 10/7/2021 #drawing #sketchbook #art #artprofessor #artschool #artprofessorlife #artschoollife #sketch #draw #pen #ink #collage #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #wewillnotcancelus #adriennemareebrown @adriennemareebrown #transformativejustice #justice #deia #dei https://www.instagram.com/p/CUvzDvRlJmn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[monriatitans]

Sat, March 13, 2021 "Things are not getting worse, they are getting uncovered. We must hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil." - Adrienne Maree Brown ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ #adriennemareebrown #adriennemareebrownquote #adriennemareebrownquotes #inspirationalquote #educational #educationalpost #learnsomethingneweveryday #becomesmartereveryday #monriatitans https://www.instagram.com/p/CMXdojVjRaD/?igshid=1hplchne2nug9

[sistahscifi]

TODAY!! Join us and 500 other Sistah Scifi Siblings as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Parable of the Sower.

Panelists are @adriennemareebrown, @AyanaJamieson, and Daniel Simon.

Cohosts are @americanwritersmuseum, @206langston , @mopopseattle, @NAAMNW , @7storiespress, and @seattleurbanbookexpo.

Join us! @sistahscifi | https://sistahscifi.com/pages/events

[stephanie-light]

"Pleasure activism is the work we do to reclaim our whole, happy, and satisfiable selves from the impacts, delusiobs, and limitations of oppression and/or supremacy." - Adrienne Maree Brown @adriennemareebrown

Just allowing yourselves to fully embrace pleasure is, in a way, an act of defiance and simultaneously a deeply personal freedom. 2020 was so painful. Let's make space for pleasure in 2021 however we can. . . .

#mentalhealth #selfcare #selflove #selfloveinspo #selfcareinspo #radicalselflove #pleasure #pleasureactivism #adriennemareebrown #freedom #generosity #wholeness #purposefulliving #liberatedrelationships #loveandliberation #transormation #everythingisconnected #relationships #relationshipgoals #honesty #radicalhonesty #joy #satisfaction (at Bend, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJhavPGjYpw/?igshid=xynkzktl5hln

[meccacon]

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

[stumblingoverchaos]

From my Do the Work journal. Collage, block printing ink (which I hate sooooo much), Posca paint pen. # "...all organizing is science fiction. When we talk about a world without prisons; a world without police violence; a world where everyone has food, clothing, shelter, quality education; a world free of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, heterosexism; we are talking about a world that doesn’t currently exist. But collectively dreaming up one that does means we can begin building it into existence." -adrienne maree brown via pinetreelady on tumblr #getmessyartjournal #getmessyart #artjournal #artjournaling #visualjournal #visualjournaling #collage #quotes #artjournalpage #artjournals #artistsoninstagram #visualjournals #poscamarkers #poscapaintpens #adriennemareebrown #dothework #blockprinting https://www.instagram.com/p/CE4Euc3ANzT/?igshid=1im9f0xn3ek6x

[klovesyou]

🥰life scenes.🥰 • • something is shifting inside me. it's really exciting. but in a calm way, a blissful surrender, if you will... • • i'm finding so much joy + happiness in quiet moments of gratitude. the crisp fall air creeping in...the cloudy surrender to a new season. tiny affirmations + mindful prayers gracing my lips as teeny whispers... • • i adore this book. emergent strategy by @adriennemareebrown simply has me awestruck. i can't wait to put into practice so many of her ideas. i'm so grateful i found her words BEFORE i've begun the writing process for my dissertation. she's a scholar and true divine being from detroit. midwest practicalities almost always resonate and inspire my intellectual and integrational mindsets. i truly feel blessed to have her consciousness to help feed and guide my ideations.🙏🏼 • • happy saturday, all...and i almost look crossed eyed in that last photo. 🤷🏻‍♀️ i enjoy the portrait mode on this pixel whatever it is...forgive me. 🙏🏼🥰 #paradigmshift #adriennemareebrown #emergentstrategy #trustthepeople #dissertation #dissertationlife #spiritualactivists #spiritualactivism #riseinlove #psychedelicintegration #surrender #knowledgeisarhizome #universalconnection #higherconsciousness #alllearningissociallymediated #growthisnonlinear #trusttheprocess #feminineenergy #receptivity https://www.instagram.com/p/B2IENuChHxx/?igshid=1gylm65dehynx