Adrienne Maree Brown, often styled adrienne maree brown, is a post-nationalist writer, doula, activist and Black feminist. From 2006 to 2010, she was the executive director of the Ruckus Society. Much of her work as a writer is based around the writings of Octavia E. Butler. Her first book, Emergent Strategy, was published in 2017 to positive reviews. Her second book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, was published in 2019 and demonstrates how activists can tap into emotional and erotic desires to organize against oppression. Her 2020 book We Will Not Cancel Us considers questions of harm, accountability, and transformative justice, speaking primarily to an audience of activists and others organizing in alignment with a prison abolitionist movement framework.
