Center for Science and the Imagination | CSI Conversations: adrienne maree brown @imagineASU | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
On Thursday, March 25, 2021, we invited some of our Imaginary Friends to a special virtual event with writer, pleasure activist, sci-fi scholar, artist, and doula adrienne maree brown.
adrienne is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good and Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts.
At this special event, CSI Director Ed Finn talked to adrienne about imagination, resilience, and how lessons from poetry, nature, science fiction, and community action can help shape a better future.
adrienne visited ASU as the 2021 Distinguished Lecturer for the Institute for Humanities Research. The recording of this talk can be viewed here: youtube.com/watch?v=X1WUScrJypM
Thank you to our colleagues at the Institute for Humanities Research, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, and the Faculty Women of Color Caucus for helping to make these events happen.
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About adrienne maree brown:
adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Learn more at adriennemareebrown.net
About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
On Thursday, March 25, 2021, we invited some of our Imaginary Friends to a special virtual event with writer, pleasure activist, sci-fi scholar, artist, and doula adrienne maree brown.
adrienne is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good and Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts.
At this special event, CSI Director Ed Finn talked to adrienne about imagination, resilience, and how lessons from poetry, nature, science fiction, and community action can help shape a better future.
adrienne visited ASU as the 2021 Distinguished Lecturer for the Institute for Humanities Research. The recording of this talk can be viewed here: youtube.com/watch?v=X1WUScrJypM
Thank you to our colleagues at the Institute for Humanities Research, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, and the Faculty Women of Color Caucus for helping to make these events happen.
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About adrienne maree brown:
adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Learn more at adriennemareebrown.net
About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
