As we near the end of season 2 of the ESII podcast, we decided to share a favorite past episode chosen by our listeners. This week, as many are celebrating, grieving, and reflecting on love, it only seemed right to replay Boundaried in Love with Prentis Hemphill from season 1.
The Emergent Strategy Podcast brings you a tender conversation between adrienne and this week's guest, Prentis Hemphill. Prentis is a teacher, an embodiment coach and group conflict facilitator. Prentis is also the founder of The Embodiment Institute. Prentis and adrienne talk somatics and setting boundaries with both our intimate and public relations.
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As we near the end of season 2 of the ESII podcast, we chose our all-time favorite past episodes for you to enjoy. This week, adrienne chose Relating During the Pandemic with Autumn Brown from season 1.
Mother, organizer, theologian and writer, Autumn Brown, joins host Mia Herndon on this week's episode of The Emergent Strategy Podcast. In a lively discussion, Autumn talks about parenting during the pandemic, the challenges and positives of relating through technology, and discovers (excitedly) the Hide Self View feature.
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As we near the end of season 2 of the ESII podcast, we chose our all-time favorite past episodes for you to enjoy. This week, Mia chose Chaos Minded with Mwende Katwiwa from season 1.
Performer, speaker, author, poet, Mwende Katwiwa, joins Emergent Strategy podcast host, Sage Crump, to talk about poetics, question what is seen as inherent, and the generative space of being chaos minded.
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As we near the end of season 2 of the ESII podcast, we chose our all-time favorite past episodes for you to enjoy. This week, Sage chose Devotion, Strategy and Rigor with Sendolo Diaminah from season 1.
"White supremacy and capitalism wants us to believe that they are the most important thing going on and that the whole world is against us. The whole world is not against us," says Sendolo Diaminah, co-director of the Carolina Federation. Diaminah joins ESII host, adrienne maree brown, this week to talk about love of strategy, softer rigor (at times), and living out a new politics.
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Complex Movements is a Detroit-based artist collective supporting the transformation of communities by exploring the connections of complex science and social justice movements through multimedia interactive performance work. Carlos, Sage, Wes, and Ill of Complex Movements join adrienne to discuss nonlinearity, the development and evolution of the group's emblems, and their most recent project Beware of the Dandelions.
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Mia Mingus is a writer, educator, and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She founded and currently leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project, which builds the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive. This week, Mia meets with adrienne to discuss quitting capitalism, practice, and climate catastrophe.
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Shira Hassan is a long time activist whose work focuses on the experiences of girls, boys, transgender and queer youth involved in the sex trade and street economy. She is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair and the author of Saving Our Own Lives. This week, Shira joins Sage to talk about black holes, her book Saving Our Own Lives, and sex work as care work.
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Ericka Huggins is a human rights activist, poet, educator, Black Panther leader and former political prisoner. Ericka joins adrienne to talk about freedom as an inside job, the teachings of meditation, and recognizing the women of the Black Panther Party in her newest book Comrade Sisters.
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Moya Bailey is a scholar, writer, and activist whose work focuses on how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. This week, Moya meets with Mia to explore the distinction between urgency and importance, being in but not of the academy, and the work of the Digital Apothecary.
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Nicole Newman is a poet, writer, sister, and coach. Aja Taylor is a facilitator, sex educator, sister, and writer. Together, they co-founded Two Brown Girls Consulting Cooperative. This week, Nicole and Aja join adrienne to discuss creating more space, the practice of invitations, and science fiction as a source of politicization.
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Ashoka Finley is an emergent strategist and the founder of hypha, a subscription that funds climate solutions. This week, Ashoka and adrienne meet to talk about elemental practices, feeling wholeness in liminal spaces, and what it means to build a new world.
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Vicki Meek is an artist, curator, arts administrator, and cultural critic whose career spans decades. This week, Vicki joins Sage to talk about Elizabeth's Catlett's influence, collaborating with artists from different disciplines, and reimagining the Black archive.
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Chelsea Cleveland is an organizer, facilitator, and the co-founder of Hearing Youth Voices, a youth organization based in New London, CT. Chelsea joins Yanitza, facilitation cohort member and former ESII staff, and Mia, this week's ESII host, to talk about listening to disabled people, dreaming about an Octavia Butler tarot deck, and thinking of loneliness as a process of fermentation.
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Micky ScottBey Jones, The Justice Doula, is an author, speaker, and healing justice practicioner. In this IG Live Interview, adrienne talks with Micky about brave space, plagiarism, accountability, call-outs, and learning in public.
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Makani Themba is an author, innovator, and currently the Chief Strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies based in Jackson, MS. A long-time organizer, Makani meets with ESII host, Sage, to discuss genealogies, the economy as a set of relationships, and the power of imagination.
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Paris Hatcher is the executive director of Black Feminist Future, a political hub focused on the dynamic possibilities of galvanizing the social and political power of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people towards liberation. Paris joins Mia to talk about being deliberately emergent, learning from the natural world, and Black feminism as a call to transformative justice.
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Briana Herman-Brand is a teacher, facilitator, and parent. This week, she joins adrienne to talk about trusting from within, the possibilities of co-housing, and unlearning processes from white supremacist culture.
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A sonic treat this week with BOLD organizer Alta Starr. Alta is a bodyworker, organizer, poet, and tarot reader. Alta converses with ESII host, Sage, about existentialism, our agency when it comes to imbuing circumstance with meaning (or not), and tarot use for less predictive outcomes and more as a space for reflection, play, and reinterpretation of the world around us.
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Adaku Utah is a 6th generation Igbo healer and the organizing director of the National Network of Abortion Funds. Adaku and Mia meet to talk about organizing and providing services to communities outside of the parameters of the state, and Adaku points to the work that is required for tending to our relationships. They also leads listeners through a centering practice. So find a place that brings you comfort and press play.
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Yazmany Arboleda is the People's Artist for New York City through the Civic Engagement Commission. This week, Yazmany joins adrienne to talk about the possibilities of creating an active, experimental, and more imaginative and democratic engagement with the people who make up a place.
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