The Emergent Strategy Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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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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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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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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.

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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