adrienne maree brown

everything must change, including us.

I am a tiny cell within multiple movement bodies for justice and abolition

have studied the work of Sojourner Truth, Angela Y. Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, Mimi Kim, Rachel Herzing, Ron Scott, Walidah Imarisha, Shira Hassan, Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi ­Piepzna-Samarasinha, Mia Mingus, Mark-Anthony Johnson, Andrea Ritchie, Patrisse Cullors, and Prentis Hemphill, among others

we can grow into right relationship with each other.

Another dynamic occurs when people begin to see you as a teacher—you have to be more careful with your questions, with your emotional explorations…

I want to punish people too sometimes, especially those whom I have survived. I’m not above it

Identifying and asking the questions doesn’t mean I know the answers.

Identifying and asking the questions doesn’t mean I know the answers. In my emotional inquiries, it usually means I feel lost, and longing for a clarity that aligns with my vision of transformation from a rigid, punitive, disconnected society to an adaptive, resilient, and interdependent one

I want to ask us all to commit to abolitionist practice together

This booklet is full of love notes and hopefully some clear invitations in new direction