Social Justice as Science Fiction: The Queerness of Liberation with adrienne maree brown

UNC Asheville will host author and science fiction scholar adrienne maree brown for a keynote lecture, “Social Justice as Science Fiction: The Queerness of Liberation,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 22.  The virtual event is free and open to the public, and will stream via Zoom and Facebook live here. Brown’s lecture will explore organizing in the context of science fiction and radical imagination, centering the contributions of queer and trans activists, thought leaders, and artists of color as central parts of liberation movements past and present.

Brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice; New York Times best-seller Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; and Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. She is also the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the co-host of two podcasts: How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables.

UNC Asheville community members can register here.