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I love the content of this book, even if the way it was written was a little challenging for me to follow. adrienne marie brown presents ideas about leadership in movements that require a collective action that profoundly resonate with me. She uplifts the people that inspired her, notable among them Octavia Butler.

I‘ve been away too long Litsy! 😩 I launched my travel business and it‘s been hard to make time to read. Hoping to make more time for it, and for Litsy, because I miss it! I recently learned about Readwise, an app that compiles all of the passages you‘ve highlighted in your e-reader and sends you a daily email with a few passages. It‘s been fun to revisit things I read long ago, and it‘s pulled me out of my slump a bit. Anyone else use it?

Lazy Sunday! Tilney and I are enjoying a quiet day of reading/napping. Elliot (not pictured) has the zoomies… hopefully she tires out soon and joins the couch brigade 😸 #catsoflitsy

These are sometimes the kinds of notes I write in the margins. 😂
And these are sometimes the kinds of cookies I eat to get in the holiday spirit. 🍪
It is 54 degrees with little to no wind and just a peek of sun, and I am blissfully reading outside. 📚

gorgeous autumnal weather
delicious iced latte
adrienne maree brown
happy self-care sunday
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It's taking me forever to finish this book because every sentence makes me want to stop and think for like 30 minutes.

Bedtime reading. ? This "night time" tea is oatflower, lavender, and limeflower! It's so floral and unusual - I'm excited to try the other herbal teas in this variety box too! ? #bookandtea

@Emilymdxn Since I just mentioned it, here's the book whose author was very inspired by Octavia Butler! It's kind of a book about community organizing? And it's wonderful so far. 😍 Author was an editor of a book about Octavia Butler that I'll tag below! ⬇️

“But emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies. Emergence is our inheritance as a part of this universe; it is how we change. Emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.”🌱

A new way to move forward in societal and personal transformation, inspired by the science-fiction of Octavia Butler, in Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown invites us to shape the future we want to see through accepting and influencing the natural state of flux of the world around us and inside us. This book feels like an ongoing collaboration more than a manifesto, but I found it well-structured and self-aware and left inspired and excited.

"we are not here to feel good all the time, but to do good.

remind participants that change happens at a pace relevant for the people involved--we are not ahead or behind each other, we are in a million experiments."

~adrienne marie brown, Emergent Strategy

Curious to know how others liked this one.

1. Zuri Benitez, Jade, Essun
2. adrienne maree brown, Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Tracy K. Smith, Audre Lorde, N.K. Jemisin, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, Octavia Butler, Jasmine Guillory, Renée Watson, LL McKinney, Victor LaValle, Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ibi Zoboi
3. Both!
4. SF, fantasy, history, art history, poetry, LGBT
5. Resistance/community; Black farmers history/present

#blitsyhistorymonth #bhmswap @Chelleo

Loved this book. I noticed some reviewers having issues with the style of the writing and presentation but I believe the author addresses this in the introduction. It does feel like reading someone‘s journal and I had no problem with that. Lots to be inspired by here.

Wow! It wasn‘t the most organized book, but what‘s inside more than made up for it! Fantastic book about how activism is practicing science fictions (it is envisioning and creating new worlds). Also discusses what we can learn from nature about collaboration and responding to change. All of this is framed specifically around the work of Octavia Butler. Fascinating approach and has me thinking about what role I play in the greater whole.

Don't sit this out. It has room for you.

Allow your small self to be held in big ways/ Be fractal/ Trust the universe and it becomes trustworthy/ Everything we touch we change/ everything touched changes us.

Cassis, orange juice, seltzer, and star anise bitters; EMERGENT STRATEGY by adrienne maree brown; and a snow day tomorrow!

"Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together." ❤️?

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