She cites this time as being pivotal to the development of her political consciousness, especially regarding issues of policing and race. She was at the university when Amadou Diallo was killed by police officers in 1999. īrown attended Columbia University where she studied African American Studies, political science, and voice. As mixed-race children, Brown and her sisters experienced racism in school. Her father was in the military and she spent much of her childhood abroad in Germany (see United States military deployments), as well as in Georgia, New York, and California. Life and activism Early life īrown was born on September 6, 1978, in El Paso, Texas, to a mixed-race couple who met at Clemson University in South Carolina. Other books include Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, published in 2019, and We Will Not Cancel Us, published in 2020.īrown also runs podcasts and has released a music project.

Her first book, Emergent Strategy, was published in 2017. Much of her work as a writer is based on the writings of science-fiction author Octavia E. She also supports, among others, the Black Lives Matter and prison abolition movements. īrown describes her thought as postnationalism, and others have described it as Black feminism or womanism. She also co-founded and directed the United States League of Young Voters. From 2006 to 2010, she was executive director of the Ruckus Society. Afrofuturism, science fiction, non-fiction creative non-fictionĪctivism Community Organizing Afrofuturism Black Feminism Facilitation Social Justice Climate JusticeĪdrienne Maree Brown, often styled adrienne maree brown (born September 6, 1978), is a writer, activist and facilitator.

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