Gallery Talk: adrienne maree brown in conversation with writer Dani McClain at The Mercantile Library

*Please note that this Gallery Talk is now at 2pm at the Mercantile Library (414 Walnut Street, #1100, Cincinnati, OH 45202)

Octavia’s Brood Editor and celebrated speculative fiction writer adrienne maree brown in conversation with writer Dani McClain.

DANI MCCLAIN reports on race, parenting and reproductive health. McClain’s writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, TIME, The Atlantic and Harper’s BAZAAR. Her work has been recognized by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and she’s received a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. McClain is a contributing writer at The Nation. She was a staff reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and has worked as a strategist with organizations including Color of Change and Drug Policy Alliance. Her book, We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, was published in 2019 by Bold Type Books and was shortlisted in 2020 for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She was the Cincinnati Public Library’s Writer-in-Residence in 2020 and 2021. 

adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. adrienne is the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator/host of How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown. adrienne's latest book Loving Corrections is now available from AK Press.

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