Temper: A Fugitive Guide to Freedom

by Autumn Brown

A thought-provoking guide to fugitive practice—cultivating inner freedom and wayfinding toward liberation, even when the way is uncertain—from artist and organizer Autumn Brown.

What comes to mind when you hear the word “fugitive”?

To beloved organizer and artist Autumn Brown, the essence of a fugitive represents the medicine we need to tend to the wounds we’ve inherited—no matter our race or identity—under white supremacist systems of capitalism, colonialism, and hyper-individualism. Fugitives might not know what freedom will look or feel like, or how the path to get there will unfold, but they courageously hold liberation in their hearts and take concrete action to begin the journey.

Rooted in personal story, Black feminist wisdom, and imaginative ancestral realms, Temper invites us to step away from analysis and intellect as our primary forms of knowledge and into the freedom of fugitive practice. Because like Autumn says, “Fugitive practice states—I am not the worst things that have happened to me. I am not a slave. I am free.” Like the runaway slave escaping the plantation and entering an unseen future, freedom results from a practice of wayfinding that offers us a side door into a joyful, just world.

Autumn offers us the tools to alchemize our collective suffering so we may practice more freedom and, in turn, have the resilience to end oppression. Through liberatory lessons around discipline, radical accountability, spiritual awakening, and embodied practice, we can begin to view our individual and collective wounds as a portal of transformation and liberation.

272 pages, Paperback

Expected publication November 10, 2026

About the author

Recently divorced and out on my own for the first time in 22 years. Sometimes it's scary and sometimes it's exciting. Either way, it's good material for my next books. For years, I have lived with characters and stories dancing in my head, but never really had the time to develop them. Now, with this precious, wonderful time that I have vowed not to take for granted, I have at last been able to let those characters live and breathe. I only pray that readers get to know them and love them as much as I have. I write teen romances, and adult romances. Some days I feel young, and some days I feel older (a little older any way). My books most often have heroines that ride motorcycles, and drive fast cars. There's a little of the real-life me in there. I hope you enjoy my books. Check out my website for more information, or to get in touch with me. http://www.AutumnBrownBooks.com