Health & Happiness

Murmurations: A Winter Solstice Spell

adrienne maree brown reflects on the sacred rest that comes about with the winter solstice.

adrienne maree brown | Dec 20, 2021
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Grow the Chorus

adrienne maree brown reflects on the lessons they’ve learned authoring this column for the past year, and lays out a path for what’s to come.

adrienne maree brown | Dec 28, 2022
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Embracing Black Earth Wisdom

Leah Penniman encourages us to recognize Earth as teacher, text, and kin.

Leah Penniman | Apr 24, 2023
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Murmurations: Stewarding the Future

adrienne maree brown invites YES! readers to join her in writing “fan fiction and fan poetics for the future.”

adrienne maree brown | Jan 21, 2022
Empathy

Murmurations: Building a Compassionate Economics

Two years into a global pandemic, adrienne maree brown invites us to root into compassion and reconnect with our state of interbeing.

adrienne maree brown | Feb 17, 2022
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: How to Be Accountable With Your Words

When it is difficult to see the truth, speaking it becomes even more essential, writes adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | Apr 27, 2022
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Murmurations: Accountability Begins Within

Holding ourselves accountable is the first step toward true healing, which is the victory we should all be working towards, says adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | May 31, 2022
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Murmurations: Returning to the Whole

To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole, writes adrienne maree brown in their June column.

adrienne maree brown | Jun 29, 2022
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Murmurations: Love Looks Like Accountability

Being accountable to ourselves and in our relationships with others helps to create a broader culture of accountability, writes adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | Jul 25, 2022
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Breaking Is Part of Healing

Talking about endings can be scary, but they are necessary if we are to create something better together, writes adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | Aug 23, 2022
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Accountable to Earth

In their September column, adrienne maree brown asks how we can hear beyond the human cry for help.

adrienne maree brown | Sep 27, 2022
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Accountable to Our Ancestors

adrienne maree brown ponders how (and whether) we should be accountable to ancestors who held beliefs vastly different from our own.

adrienne maree brown | Oct 27, 2022
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Accountable Endings

The end of a world built on toxic ideas of supremacy can make way for a better, more collective and connected existence, writes adrienne maree brown.

adrienne maree brown | Nov 29, 2022
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Lessons from Pride and Parades

In a world obsessed with the concept of forever, Cherizar Crippen encourages us to recognize the beauty in impermanence.

Cherizar Lee Crippen | Jun 29, 2023
Health & Happiness

Murmurations: Black Imagination Can Build a Better World

Black Imagination is an abolitionist tradition that offers us an invitation to act with hope amid times of great transition.

Aisha Shillingford | Aug 29, 2023
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