New York Times-bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever, and offers “loving corrections”: a roadmap towards collective power, righting wrongs, and true belonging
This selection of prescient, compassionate essays explores patterns we engage in that are rooted in limited thinking. Through a lens of “loving correction” rather than mere critique, author adrienne maree brown helps us reimagine how to hold ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities accountable by setting clear boundaries, engaging in reflection, and nurturing honest relationships.
Loving Corrections is divided into two sections, with the first portion featuring new essays including “A Word for White People” and “Relinquishing the Patriarchy” and writing on topics like moving from fragility to fortitude, disability, and navigating critique within activist communities. The second section expands and updates pieces from brown’s popular monthly column “Murmurations” in YES! Magazine that explore accountability—within oneself and community—with depth, inventiveness, and empathy.
Along with allowing us more authentic access to ourselves and to each other, the “corrections” in the book’s title are intended to explore and break identity-based patterns including white supremacy, fragility, patriarchy, and ableism. brown also offers practical guidance on how to apologize and be accountable from our nuanced positions of power, history, and resources.
Building on her previous work—especially Holding Change and We Will Not Cancel Us—brown reminds us how much we need each other: 'It is only through relationship that we learn how to be, understand our impact on others and explore small shifts that may yield remarkable collective change.’
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Introduction
PART ONE: Accountability for the Here and Now
Relinquishing the Patriarchy
A Word for White People
An Emergent Strategy Primer for Funders
Black as Nonmonolithic
Disability Justice is for All Bodies
Cultivate Your Privacy, Tend Your Wounds
Four Insights for Radical Organizing From the Mysterious World of Mushrooms
Sisters, Check In
Growing the Chorus: Rituals and Rites
PART TWO: Murmurations
Stewarding the Future
Building A Compassionate Economics
Realizing Our Abolitionist Dreams
How to Be Accountable With Your Words
Accountability Begins Within
Returning to the Whole
Love Looks Like Accountability
Breaking is A Part of Healing
Accountable to Earth
Accountable to Our Ancestors
Accountable Endings
Conclusion: From Fragility to Fortitude
Appendix: Resources and Supports
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Janine de Novais is a writer, sociologist, and cultural strategist interested in liberation as a cultural project, a matter of (un)learning. She is the author of Brave Community: Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination.