Description: A transformative guide that shows readers how to "temper" their bodies and spirits for the resilient practice of freedom within a collapsing world, from co-host of the podcast "How to Survive the End of the World" Autumn Brown.
Brief description: AUTUMN BROWN is an artist, organizer, and theologian dedicated to political education and liberatory practice. Drawing on her decades of experience organizing for social change, and training community organizers and faith leaders, Autumn encourages people to harness their innate capacity for healing to overcome the trauma of oppression. She is co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World podcast with her sister, adrienne maree brown. Autumn lives in Minneapolis with her three brilliant children.
Review Quotes:
"Every page in Temper sizzles with ancient truth and brand new, desperately needed hope. The world is on fire--it's true. Temper is our emergency exit."--Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
"Temper is a template for keeping our souls intact while we navigate all that this moment serves up and all that is to come. Autumn Brown's wisdom and dedication to this work shines through in every page."--Chani Nicholas, New York Times bestselling author of You Were Born for This "Temper is challenging and heartbreaking, mystical and invitational, ancestral and glorious."--Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands "Autumn Brown is the Zen Harriet Tubman, and this book is our North Star. We learn that getting free is much harder than we think yet more possible than we imagine."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams "Autumn Brown's advocacy for fugitivity, lostness, humility, and love-based practices, provides a primer on soul activism. Read this book and feel the ground shifting beneath you."--Francis Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow "In this moment of polycrisis, the medicine that is this book reminds us that if we are lost, then the antidote is to remember that we have always been free, even in an unfree world."--Lama Rod Owens, author of The New Saints "Listening to what the body has to teach, to the power of Black Feminist resistance and fugitivity, to the wisdom of the land and Indigenous knowledge, to the wisdom held in martial arts, and to her experiences in supporting groups to come closer to their shared liberation, Autumn Brown offers frameworks, reflections, and practice that lift up both the softness and the hard edges of being free."--Susan Raffo, author of Liberated to the Bone