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adrienne maree brown on war tax resistance & being a vector of resource

April 15
47 mins

Episode Description

For 13 years, adrienne maree brown didn't pay her taxes — on principle. She was a war tax resister, writing letters to the IRS until the day her bank accounts were emptied (which she found out while trying to buy groceries). That's where this conversation starts. But it's also where it gets interesting.

In the first interview episode of New Dimes Radio, Renna Al-Yassini and Kristen Brillantes sit down with amb to talk about rebuilding financial stability, buying a property that she turned into a safe space for writers in her community, and what it means to be a "vector of resource" — someone through whom wealth can move and multiply, not just accumulate. They also get into inherited money beliefs, the politics of abundance, and Kristen's discovery of the concept of in vivo inheritance a.k.a. the wealth you transfer in your lifetime, not after.

ABOUT ADRIENNE
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.


LINKS + RESOURCES

This episode of New Dimes Radio was produced by 8 of Stones and Philo's Future Media. Executive Produced by Kristen Brillantes, Renna Al-Yassini, and Keisha “TK” Dutes. Kristen Bennett is our producer. This episode was mixed and sound-designed by Erica Huang. 


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  • (00:00) - Welcome to New Dimes Radio
  • (10:22) - Introducing adrienne maree brown
  • (12:10) - Being a first-time homeowner and using the house as a community resource
  • (14:00) - Asking her military dad for help navigating the process
  • (19:43) - "I had to stop aiming at poverty"
  • (20:52) - Growing up between two money worlds: poverty, horses, and pearls
  • (27:47) - The IRS story: 13 years of war tax resistance and what happened
  • (32:28) - "Enough is only enough if it can serve the community"
  • (35:37) - Wills, life insurance, and chosen family as a wealth strategy
  • (36:50) - Composting capitalism: adrienne's essay in Women Talk Money
  • (38:00) - "I'm a vector of resource"
  • (41:43) - Kristen and Renna reflect: in vivo inheritance and what adrienne's wealth activation looks like in practice
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