Content Warning: this book may contain some intense language and references to abuse, assault, etc.

Here is a link if you wish to buy this book and read it for yourself:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/emergent-strategy-shaping-change-changing-worlds-adrienne-maree-brown/10730965?ean=9781849352604

Synopsis:
"Radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist "spirituality" based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.

About the Author:
adrienne maree brown, the Co-Editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, doula, and pleasure activist living in Detroit. She is a student of emergence, somatics, transformation, and science fiction. She is part of the training body of generative somatics, and coordinating the Just Films Narrative Shift Program for Allied Media Projects. She is the 2015-2016 Ursula le Guin Fellowship, the Knight Arts Challenge for 2013 and 2015, a Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for 2013, in the inaugural Speculative Fiction Workshop at Voices of Our Nation 2014, and a graduate of the Clarion Sci-Fi and Fantasy Workshop in 2015."

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This read-aloud is part of a series I’ve created called Storytime with Katie. Reading books all the way through is a challenge for me. One day I decided to record myself reading as a way to build accountability and actually read a book all the way through. Over the years it has evolved into a pleasureful practice where I share both books I have read before as well as books that I have wanted to read for a long time. Giving myself permission to read messily is a must so if you can’t stand throat-clearing, random comments, or mistakes this video probably isn’t for you. Thanks for being here!

To learn more about the work I do as a neurodivergent coach, please check out my website here:
https://www.katietempletoncolman.com/