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Dear For The Wild Community, 

We’re excited to bring you the first season of our Earthly Reads series featuring authors adrienne maree brown, Marcia Bjornerud, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill, Tricia Hersey, and Céline Semaan. Listen along as we go into deep, delightful conversation on themes from their newest books.

This collection of authors and books is meant to reignite imagination and transformation within our own bodies and lives as we focus on themes of resistance, embodiment, and connection as an antidote to this era of division and isolation.

Alongside the episodes, we’re exploring our love of literature through the Earthly Reads Book Study. Registration is now open →

Join us in this interactive book study where we weave together intimate online gatherings, live music, somatic exercises, study notes, practice guides, and an online community in which to dive deep with.

Earthly Reads is more than just an online book club. It’s a comprehensive multimodal offering, a salon of sorts, designed to help you slow down so that you may invoke the deeper wisdom within the pages.   

What you get:

• A series of 6 live Earthly Reads online gatherings featuring intimate discussion between the authors and Ayana Young.

  • Features live Q&A with adrienne maree brown, Marcia Bjornerud, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill Tricia Hersey, and Céline Semaan

  • Includes a guided somatic practice and live music from our friends, Living Earth

  • Recordings of the gatherings will be available for on-demand play
    

• Curriculum includes:
  

  • Earthly Reads Study Notes created specifically for each book

  • Access to the new extended-length podcast episodes featuring each author

  • Access to the digital Earthly Reads Practice Guide filled with episode excerpts, prayer, community artwork, poetry, ritual, journaling prompts and more

• Plus:

  • Curated music playlists to study and move to

  • The option to join our Earthly Reads Book Study group where you can discuss the books with fellow readers

Live conversations begin in February, but you can get a feel by listening to the newest podcast episodes!

We’re kicking off this series with returning guest, adrienne maree brown. In this heartfelt episode, adrienne shares more about her new book, Loving Corrections, and reminds us of what it means to value relationships and reflection across humanity.

Access the full episode (65min.) by joining us on Patreon or the Earthly Reads Book Study.

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adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. adrienne is the NYT-bestselling author/editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the “Lineages of Change Tarot Deck,” and co-creator/host of “How to Survive the End of the World” podcast with Autumn Brown. adrienne's latest book "Loving Corrections” is now available from AK Press.

Continuing the first season of our Earthly Reads series, we are thrilled to share a new conversation with returning guest Tricia Hersey. 

Sharing sweet balm from her new book We will Rest! The Art of Escape, Tricia reminds us of the art of being alive. In this meditative episode, Tricia asks listeners what it might mean to have faith in mystery and to begin without knowing the full course. Throughout the episode, she shares her wisdom on what it means to try without the fear of being wrong. 

Access the full episode (65min.) by joining us on Patreon or the Earthly Reads Book Study.

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Tricia Hersey is a multidisciplinary artist, theologian, escape artist and founder of The Nap Ministry. She is the global pioneer and originator of the “rest as resistance” and “rest as reparations” frameworks, and collaborates with communities all over the world to create sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Tricia’s work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology. She is a Chicago native who believes in daydreaming, porch sitting, and poetry.

• What books have spoken to your soul? Which books have changed your views?

  
  

• What do you wish you knew about your favorite authors? Does reading make you feel closer to the authors of the books? 

  
  

• Who are your literary ancestors?

  
  

• What is your favorite word? Tell a story about it? 

  
  

• How do you feel when reading? Do you have a practice surrounding your reading that makes you feel more comfortable? A candle you light? A pen you annotate with? A blanket you cozy up with? 

Thank You

We are so grateful for our For The Wild Community and for your support over the past years. We are entirely community funded so your contributions keep us afloat in a world where media organizations face growing uncertainty and strain.

By joining us on patreon, buying our zines, or purchasing access to this book study, you directly support our small team and allow us to continue this work. Thank you for being here.