Engaging Voices

This discussion is framed for advocates, activists, and organizers from movements against gender-based violence. Together, we address how to tap into transformative ideas and practices that interrupt self-denial, scarcity, and harm-replication. This conversation explores how to give ourselves permission to be our most whole, authentic, and divine selves. Our permission can allow our movements - as well as the many survivors we serve - to reclaim power, self-determination, and vibrance.To practice waging liberation, we can offer ourselves the radical permission to wholly live our lives (including the work we engage in) rooted in our deepest YES. This YES restores our divine nature, opening up a ripe potential for us to foster freedom. When we give ourselves increasing permission to practice freedom in real-time, we get closer to living in a world without gender-based violence. We inherently deserve a safe(r) world....Our conversation features Idaho Coalition staff members, tai simpson and Nish Newton. We spotlight two incredible guests, adrienne maree brown and Sonya Renee Taylor. adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute. She is the author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism and the co-editor of How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Emergent Strategy podcasts.Sonya Renee Taylor is the founder and radical executive officer of the Body Is Not an Apology, a digital media and education company. Her work as an activist and educator and her commitment to radical self-love and transformation have reached millions of people, and she is the author of the bestselling The Body Is Not an Apology.adrienne maree brown and Sonya Renee Taylor created a beloved guide for following your soul's calling, Journal of Radical Permission. During our discussion, we uplift their guide and their many ideas for radically imagining a safe(r) world.