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    Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
    Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
    Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
    Ebook series7 titles

    Emergent Strategy Series

    By Alexis De Veaux, micha cárdenas, Andrea Ritchie and

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    About this series

    • This memoir is the eleventh book in adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy series, which broadens genre and style to bring vital, innovative stories to readers. 
    • Unique among cancer-focused memoirs. Speaks directly to experiences related to addiction; class and health care access; single parenting and chronic illness; and toxic positivity.
    • Informed by Breedlove's lifelong work as a political organizer and experiences as an ovarian cancer survivor. Centers concerns often overlooked by mainstream narratives about women living with life-threatening illness. 
    • Seeking endorsements from well-known authors working at intersection of health and social justice. Potential blurbers include Oni Blackstock, Anne Boyer, Glennon Doyle, Sarah Jaffe, Alondra Nelson, Danielle Ofri, Evelyn C. White. 

    • Deepens the subversive, feminist vision of Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Brightsided).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAK Press
    Release dateMar 20, 2017
    Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
    Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
    Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

    Titles in the series (7)

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      Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
      Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

      Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

      adrienne maree brown
      4/5 - 17 ratings
      4/5 - 17 ratings

      Self-transformation and social transformation are inextricably linked in this how-to for living the life you want to be living every day, while building the world you want to inhabit. The result of "emergent strategy" workshops adrienne has been holding for years, this book has a built-in audience like (and overlapping with) the following she and Walidah Imarisha built for Octavia's Brood.

      Self-transformation and social transformation are inextricably linked in this how-to for living the life you want to be living every day, while building the world you want to inhabit. The result of "emergent strategy" workshops adrienne has been holding for years, this book has a built-in audience like (and overlapping with) the following she and Walidah Imarisha built for Octavia's Brood.

    • 1

      Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
      Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

      Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

      Favianna Rodriguez
      4/5 - 8 ratings
      4/5 - 8 ratings

      We've decided to launch an "Emergent Strategy" book series to build on the success of adrienne's book of the same name. Some books in the series will be written or edited by adrienne herself and some will be written/edited by others. This is the first book in that series. The contributors are groundbreaking social change agents in a variety of fields, writing from a range of identities. In different ways, they all draw upon and present the black feminist tradition, making it relevant to a modern audience. adrienne has built a devoted following with previous titles, Emergent Strategy (14,000 sold) and Octavia's Brood (25,000 sold). She stays in touch with that audience through her blog, social media, and her "Pleasure Dome" column in Bitch magazine, and has been stoking their interest in this title.

      We've decided to launch an "Emergent Strategy" book series to build on the success of adrienne's book of the same name. Some books in the series will be written or edited by adrienne herself and some will be written/edited by others. This is the first book in that series. The contributors are groundbreaking social change agents in a variety of fields, writing from a range of identities. In different ways, they all draw upon and present the black feminist tradition, making it relevant to a modern audience. adrienne has built a devoted following with previous titles, Emergent Strategy (14,000 sold) and Octavia's Brood (25,000 sold). She stays in touch with that audience through her blog, social media, and her "Pleasure Dome" column in Bitch magazine, and has been stoking their interest in this title.

    • 2

      Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
      Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

      Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

      Alexis Pauline Gumbs
      5/5 - 4 ratings
      5/5 - 4 ratings

      Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

      Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

    • 8

      JesusDevil: The Parables
      JesusDevil: The Parables

      JesusDevil: The Parables

      Alexis De Veaux
      0 ratings
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      A brilliantly crafted voyage of queer, black possibility. Evocative and experimental, JesusDevil is a nonlinear tale of black life and spiritual expression. Writing in a style she calls “afiction,” Alexis De Veaux expands and moves beyond traditional narrative, following the adventures of Fhill, a black, queer spirit who has taken human form. Neither male nor female, Fhill moves fluidly and disruptively across concepts of identity, passing through the nine “parables” that comprise this text. Examining aspects of what it means to be black and human—from a nonhuman perspective—Fhill’s liminal nature redefines social and literary categories, exploring social constructions of blackness as well as themes of desire, memory, sex, revenge, and more. A daring new work and crowning achievement from a veteran storyteller. Cover art by Sokari Ekine, photographer and visual artist.

      A brilliantly crafted voyage of queer, black possibility. Evocative and experimental, JesusDevil is a nonlinear tale of black life and spiritual expression. Writing in a style she calls “afiction,” Alexis De Veaux expands and moves beyond traditional narrative, following the adventures of Fhill, a black, queer spirit who has taken human form. Neither male nor female, Fhill moves fluidly and disruptively across concepts of identity, passing through the nine “parables” that comprise this text. Examining aspects of what it means to be black and human—from a nonhuman perspective—Fhill’s liminal nature redefines social and literary categories, exploring social constructions of blackness as well as themes of desire, memory, sex, revenge, and more. A daring new work and crowning achievement from a veteran storyteller. Cover art by Sokari Ekine, photographer and visual artist.

    • 10

      Atoms Never Touch
      Atoms Never Touch

      Atoms Never Touch

      micha cárdenas
      0 ratings
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      Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance.  Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what if these involuntary journeys happen because your neurochemistry is different, and your brain works differently? Beautiful, compassionate, and resourceful as she is, this is Rea's problem. A latina trans woman and an academic, she is beloved by a tight circle of friends, who fully accept her without knowing the cause of her disappearances. But she is haunted by the lovers and family that she cannot trace back to, and fears she might be separated from them forever.  Each time she transits into a new time and space, everything shifts—even the films and writing Rea produces readjust their molecules to match her new quantum reality. But Rea, a brilliant lay scientist, is determined to crack the code, and end her quest for lasting connections and home. 

      Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance.  Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what if these involuntary journeys happen because your neurochemistry is different, and your brain works differently? Beautiful, compassionate, and resourceful as she is, this is Rea's problem. A latina trans woman and an academic, she is beloved by a tight circle of friends, who fully accept her without knowing the cause of her disappearances. But she is haunted by the lovers and family that she cannot trace back to, and fears she might be separated from them forever.  Each time she transits into a new time and space, everything shifts—even the films and writing Rea produces readjust their molecules to match her new quantum reality. But Rea, a brilliant lay scientist, is determined to crack the code, and end her quest for lasting connections and home. 

    • 9

      Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies
      Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies

      Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies

      Andrea Ritchie
      0 ratings
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      Penned from a leading voice in abolition strategy: Andrea Ritchie is the author of a number of texts on abolition, including but not limited to Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba. A tool for worldbuilding: Practicing New Worlds represents a new branch in the tree of the Emergent Strategy Series that offers and strategies and tools for envisioning and building new worlds. An exciting new approach to abolitionist activism: Practicing New Worlds approaches questions of policing and punishment from a completely new angle, opening up new perspectives and possibilities in the field. Emergent strategy for everyday life: The first book to provide an explicit and elaborated application of the theory of emergent strategy to real-world problems. Emergent Strategy (the book) is a toolkit for social movement organizers. While it has been put to use by organizers, this is the first time anyone has written a book about its application. Author platform: Andrea Ritchie has over 19K followers on Twitter. Author website: andreajritchie.com/

      Penned from a leading voice in abolition strategy: Andrea Ritchie is the author of a number of texts on abolition, including but not limited to Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba. A tool for worldbuilding: Practicing New Worlds represents a new branch in the tree of the Emergent Strategy Series that offers and strategies and tools for envisioning and building new worlds. An exciting new approach to abolitionist activism: Practicing New Worlds approaches questions of policing and punishment from a completely new angle, opening up new perspectives and possibilities in the field. Emergent strategy for everyday life: The first book to provide an explicit and elaborated application of the theory of emergent strategy to real-world problems. Emergent Strategy (the book) is a toolkit for social movement organizers. While it has been put to use by organizers, this is the first time anyone has written a book about its application. Author platform: Andrea Ritchie has over 19K followers on Twitter. Author website: andreajritchie.com/

    • 11

      All In: Cancer, Near Death, New Life
      All In: Cancer, Near Death, New Life

      All In: Cancer, Near Death, New Life

      Caitlin Breedlove
      0 ratings
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      This memoir is the eleventh book in adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy series, which broadens genre and style to bring vital, innovative stories to readers.  Unique among cancer-focused memoirs. Speaks directly to experiences related to addiction; class and health care access; single parenting and chronic illness; and toxic positivity. Informed by Breedlove's lifelong work as a political organizer and experiences as an ovarian cancer survivor. Centers concerns often overlooked by mainstream narratives about women living with life-threatening illness.  Seeking endorsements from well-known authors working at intersection of health and social justice. Potential blurbers include Oni Blackstock, Anne Boyer, Glennon Doyle, Sarah Jaffe, Alondra Nelson, Danielle Ofri, Evelyn C. White.  Deepens the subversive, feminist vision of Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Brightsided).

      This memoir is the eleventh book in adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy series, which broadens genre and style to bring vital, innovative stories to readers.  Unique among cancer-focused memoirs. Speaks directly to experiences related to addiction; class and health care access; single parenting and chronic illness; and toxic positivity. Informed by Breedlove's lifelong work as a political organizer and experiences as an ovarian cancer survivor. Centers concerns often overlooked by mainstream narratives about women living with life-threatening illness.  Seeking endorsements from well-known authors working at intersection of health and social justice. Potential blurbers include Oni Blackstock, Anne Boyer, Glennon Doyle, Sarah Jaffe, Alondra Nelson, Danielle Ofri, Evelyn C. White.  Deepens the subversive, feminist vision of Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Brightsided).

    Author

    Alexis De Veaux

    Alexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose internationally known work is published in six languages. She has been publishing fiction, poetry, plays, memoirs and children’s lit since 1973, and her work is anthologized in numerous collections. A writer for Essence Magazine for twelve years, Alexis is the recipient of many honors and awards, Alexis penned Warrior Poet, the first biography of the late lesbian poet activist, Audre Lorde; and was tenured faculty at the University at Buffalo, Department of Women’s Studies, for more than twenty years, mentoring a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars of black, feminist, and queer studies.

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