You Don't Have to be Miserable While Doing Important Work | adrienne maree brown

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<p>Our culture has oddly conflicting views about pleasure. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>In this episode, author adrienne maree brown explores the importance of pleasure and how it changes your experience of the world. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of <a href= "https://www.akpress.org/grievers.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grievers</a> (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), <a href= "https://www.akpress.org/holding-change-preorder.html" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation</a>, <em>We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice</em>, <em>Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good</em>, <em>Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds</em> and the co-editor of <em>Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements</em> and <em>How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office</em>. She is the cohost of the <a href= "https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>How to Survive the End of the World</em></a>, <a href="http://www.readingoctavia.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Octavia's Parables</em></a> and <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-emergent-strategy-podcast/id1553479340" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Emergent Strategy</em></a> podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>In this conversation we talked about:</p> <ul> <li>What is pleasure activism</li> <li>The role of sex and drugs</li> <li>Why we should say yes more</li> <li>How to be in touch with our sense of "enough"</li> <li>The role of gratitude </li> <li>The line between commitment and detachment</li> <li>How she defines authentic happiness</li> <li>Her self-description as "a recovering self-righteous organizer," and why self-righteousness actually leads to powerlessness</li> </ul> <p><br /></p> <p><em>Content Warning: Discussions of sex and drugs. </em></p> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>Full Shownotes:</strong> <a href= "https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/adrienne-maree-brown-458" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/adrienne-maree-brown-458</a></p> <p><br /></p>