WRITINGS &
RESOURCES
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition
How Do We Survive & Parent with Our Love Intact? By adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown
Edited by Maya Schenwar & Kim Wilson
Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. It is also about creation and growth. As we struggle to build a liberatory, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of raising, caring for, and nurturing future generations. We Grow the World Together reveals how people are practicing abolition in their daily lives and enriching movements for liberation with care.
Parenting for social justice
Forewords by Autumn Brown and Chris Crass.
Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Conversations and Action with Kids.
Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving
Foreword by Autumn Brown.
From author Merissa Nathan Gerson, this heartrending, relatable account of one woman's reckoning with loss is a guide to the world of self-recovery, self-love, and the skills necessary to meeting one's own needs in these times of pain- especially when that pain is suffered alone.
Survival as Transformative Justice: “Live and Work and Be Free and Heal”
Excerpted Interview by Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown with Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Transformative Justice is not just replacing the cops. It’s a completely different worldview.
Published in the Summer 2021 issue of Yes! Magazine.
Small and bright
Small and Bright, a short story by Autumn Brown.
Published in the February 2021 issue of Lightspeed Magazine. Originally published in Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements.
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation
Consensus Reflection by Autumn Brown.
Holding Change is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship with each other, not as a constant ongoing state, but rather as a magnificent, mysterious, ever-evolving dynamic in which we must involve ourselves, shape ourselves and each other.
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
The Work of Parenting by Autumn Brown.
Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism.
PROCYON SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY 2016
Hard and Ancient Work by Autumn Brown.
Twenty authors present twenty different views of the world that's coming, twenty new perspectives that interrogate the ways in which all the possible futures of science fiction may transform our world, for better or for worse—and twenty possible maps for navigating it.
REVOLUTIONARY MOTHERING: LOVE ON THE FRONT LINES
Scarcity and Abundance by Autumn Brown.
Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as anti-violence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges that many mothers face every day. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together.
OCTAVIA'S BROOD: SCIENCE FICTION STORIES FROM SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS
Small and Bright by Autumn Brown.
Octavia's Brood is an anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists, coedited by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha.
STAY SOLID: A RADICAL HANDBOOK FOR YOUTH
Race by Autumn Brown.
Edited by Matt Hern and the Purple Thistle Centre, Stay Solid is a scrapbook-style collection of essays, excerpts, explanations, and images that pushes back against a culture that relentlessly demands that kids give up their best ideals, abandon their hopes, forget their ethical objections to dominant life, soothe their rage, and accept their fates. From dealing with the cops to dealing with your peers, from school and community to drugs and sex, from race and class to money and mental health, Stay Solid! provides essential support for radically inclined teens who believe that it's possible for all of us to hang on to our values and build a life we believe in.
HEALING JUSTICE PRACTICE SPACE: A HOW-TO GUIDE
This guide to creating practice spaces that offer health and healing in the context of social change work, was crafted by Autumn Brown, Maryse Mitchell-Brody, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Adaku Utah, Triana Kazaleh-Sirdenis, and Susan Raffo, in solidarity with the Healing Justice for Black Lives Matter day of action on December 18th, 2014. You can find it at the Just Healing website, along with many other resources on creating healing justice spaces, and practicing self care and sustainability in the context of movement work.