Loving Corrections [Paperback]

New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever and offers a practice for holding collective power, righting wrongs, and generating true belonging.

Ethical, pondering, and wondrous, adrienne maree brown’sLoving Correctionsis a collection of love-based adjustments and reframes to grow our movements for liberation while navigating a society deeply fractured by greed, racism, and war. In this landmark book, brown invigorates her influential writing on belonging and accountability into the framework of “loving corrections”: a generative space where rehearsals for the revolution become the everyday norm in relating to one another.

Filled with practical wisdom on how to be a trustworthy communicator while providing bold visions for a shared future,Loving Correctionscan speak to everyone caught in the crossroads of our political challenges and potential. No matter how new to the struggle, or how numerous our failures, brown’s indispensable writing is an invitation to us all.

From the Introduction:

In the shapeshifting dojo of my deepest relationships, I have come to understand how thinking that is oppositional to my survival, thinking I have come to disagree with—overtly—as I have developed my own politic, has still shaped me and is rooted in me. Only loving corrections have helped me become intentional about who and how I want to be and grow. 

When I don’t believe someone cares about my life, much less my work, I close myself to their critiques. I don’t want to risk the total erasure of my heart, and strangers are really reckless these days. I have known days where I thought myself worse than useless, based on a fickle trend of uninformed hateration. I am more known than some and less known than others, and everyone I have met, at any level of visibility, when we talk about thl‘