The Emergent Strategy Podcast

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Fan Favorite: Boundaried in Love with Prentis Hemphill (2021) Feb 16, 2023

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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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Host Favorites: Relating During the Pandemic with Autumn Brown (2021) Feb 09, 2023

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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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Host Favorites: Chaos Minded with Mwende Katwiwa (2021) Feb 02, 2023

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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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Host Favorites: Devotion, Strategy and Rigor with Sendolo Diaminah (2021) Jan 26, 2023

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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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Shifting the Culture with Complex Movements Jan 19, 2023

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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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Tending Our Soil with Mia Mingus Jan 12, 2023

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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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Liberatory Harm Reduction with Shira Hassan Dec 22, 2022

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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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Internal Freedom with Ericka Huggins Dec 15, 2022

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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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The Digital Apothecary with Moya Bailey Dec 08, 2022

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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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Answering Your Call with Nicole Newman and Aja Taylor Dec 01, 2022

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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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