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adrienne maree brown
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adrienne maree brown's personal blog at adriennemareebrown.net covers culture, politics and writing. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in threads on social justice and Paul Graham's essay on wokeness, mainly pointing to a 2020 piece on movement building. The comments cite it without judging its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
adrienne maree brown is a visionary, author, and public conversationalist growing a garden of healing ideas.
Most-linked posts?
- /2018/05/10/we-will-not-cancel-us/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Thats a good call out, I was definitely being hyperbolic re: no one was misusing the expanded title IX definitions, and I appreciate the anecdata, since you're right that I was not alive back then and so don't have a grasp of exactly what it was like. I trust you that it happened back then, and I have also seen similar situations happen now. > I imagine that a lot of these cases are not related to being a woman — it…
Comment linking /2018/05/10/we-will-not-cancel-us/
on “I Met Paul Graham Once”edit: I realize I didn't post the adrienne marie brown piece I meant to, I was thinking of this one: https://adriennemareebrown.net/2020/07/17/unthinkable-though...
Comment linking /2020/07/17/unthinkable-thoughts-call-out-culture-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
on “The Origins of Wokeness”If you want some critique of the thing PG thinks he's critiquing (which, to parallel what he says about social oppression, is a problem but not of the nature or relative magnitude he thinks it is), but from people who have agendas to oppose social oppression instead of to protect it along with their own wealth and power, you could start with: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?: Movement building requires…
Comment linking /2018/05/10/we-will-not-cancel-us/
on “The Origins of Wokeness”As someone who has co-founded and co-organized a leaderful non-hierarchical community that has lasted 10 years of weekly hacknights (we've literally never missed a week) and many generations of stewards... I've done reflection on the value of messiness/disorder and "aggressively relaxed" constraints. I sometimes tongue-in-cheek describe myself as having some meagre expertise in "operationalising anarchy", which is o…
Comment linking /2012/08/09/giftingmyattention/
on “Hack Club: A story in three acts (a.k.a., the shit sandwich)”