Murmurations: Making Space for Transformation
Creating a space where magic can unfold and meaningful change can occur requires intentionality, trust, and courage.
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Murmurations: Five Haikus for the Equinox
As the seasons change and the light retreats, a poet invites us to be patient and discerning in knowing what is for us—and what is not.
Murmurations: The Wisdom Behind Prison Walls
A note from adrienne maree brown: Gilda Sheppard directed a film called Since I Been Down, in which Kimonti Carter was a protagonist as a transformed man leading his community
adrienne maree brown’s “Loving Corrections” to Build Collective Power
Best-selling author adrienne maree brown’s new book offers tools to navigate the difficult conversations and dynamics of organizing and belonging.
Murmurations: From Rupture to Repair
Now more than ever, we must learn ways to make ourselves—and each other—whole in the aftermath of rupture.
Murmurations: Queering Abolition
”Atoms Never Touch“ offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.
Murmurations: Donde Nacen Los Días
La poeta Julie Quiroz ofrece un hechizo de solsticio de verano que celebra la nacimiento de la luz.
Murmurations: Where Days Are Born
Poet Julie Quiroz offers a summer solstice spell that celebrates the story of light.
Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers
It’s more important than ever to commit to collective practices that generate hope, love, care, and community.
Murmurations: Flying Into the Spring Equinox
Like moths emerging from a cocoon, the spring equinox beckons us to embrace our re-imagined selves.
Murmurations: The Healing Power of Film
Centering healing justice in the filmmaking process offered this creator—and everyone involved in the film—a powerful way to begin to heal core wounds.
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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: Moving from Punishment to Accountability
How can we hold accountable systems that are designed only to understand punishment?
Murmurations: Growing Through Grief
Grief not only reminds us that we have loved, it serves as an acknowledgement of our divine humanity.
Murmurations: Loneliness As Fermentation
Solitude can create something new out of the process of decay.
Murmurations: at the equinox
Poet Alta Starr invites us to embrace the stillness of the quiet, fleeting moment between seasons as we approach the equinox.
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.
Murmurations: Experiencing Urban Earth Beauty
A note from adrienne maree brown: Suhaly offers her healing touch to the world through her Moon Mother Apothecary. I always have one of her healing salves on me. She
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.
A Summer Solstice Spell for Prideteenth
To mark the summer solstice, Juneteenth, and Pride month, Junauda Petrus offers a spell rooted in the erotics of abolition.
Murmurations: Collective Action to End Misogynoir
When it came to Russia’s unjust detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner, misogynoir made an already difficult situation more dire, writes scholar Moya Bailey.
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.
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