Murmurations: A Spell for the Winter Solstice
adrienne maree brown offers a winter solstice poem that encourages us to birth new realities.
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Murmurations: Making Space for Intentional Adaptation
Moving at the speed of trust has allowed this cooperative to create new visions of abundance—far beyond what white supremacist patriarchal hegemony deemed possible.
Murmurations: Balancing Duality on Winter Solstice
Alexis Pauline Gumbs offers a Winter Solstice spell to help us embrace the darkness and light of this moment.
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.
Murmurations: A Final Winter Solstice Spell
In their final “Spell for a Season,” adrienne maree brown explores the beauty and grief that come with a year that felt at once interminable and brief.
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.
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.
Murmurations: Accountable to Earth
In their September column, adrienne maree brown asks how we can hear beyond the human cry for help.
Murmurations: A Spell for the Fall Equinox
As the days get shorter and the nights get longer, adrienne maree brown offers a seasonal spell to honor the fall equinox.
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.
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.
Murmurations: A Summer Solstice Spell
With longer days comes more joy, but also more risk, adrienne maree brown reminds us on the summer solstice.
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.
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.
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Murmurations: Realizing Our Abolitionist Dreams
Unlearning our punitive impulses will take slow, hard work, says adrienne maree brown. But it is possible.
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.
Murmurations: Stewarding the Future
adrienne maree brown invites YES! readers to join her in writing “fan fiction and fan poetics for the future.”
Murmurations: A Winter Solstice Spell
adrienne maree brown reflects on the sacred rest that comes about with the winter solstice.
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