Podcasts by How to Survive the End of the World
Join Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown, two sisters who share many identities, as writers, activists, facilitators, and inheritors of multiracial diasporic lineages, as well as a particular interest in the question of survival, as we embark on a podcast that delves into the practices we need as a community, to move through endings and to come out whole on the other side, whatever that might be.
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Practices for Care and Endurance from 2023-12-11T19:15:58
A special bonus episode organized by Hala Alyan with adrienne maree brown, Spenta Kandawalla, Adaku Utah, Sepideh Moafi, Noor Tagouri and Layla Feghali. With gratitude to Listen
Witch School Chapter 15, Juju Bae from 2023-12-04T17:25:34
adrienne talks to JuJu Bae about Beyonce, the Orisha Tradition, Bad Bitch Witchness, A Little J...
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Witch School Chapter 14, Adela Nieves Martinez from 2023-11-17T10:46
Join adrienne for a conversation with healer, Adela Nieves Martinez. Adela is a storykeeper, mama and Promotora de Salud/Traditional Community Health Practitioner. Her work focuses on supporting...
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On Endurance, with Hala Alyan from 2023-11-15T14:23:44
This episode is taken from adrienne’s Instagram live with the writer/poet Hala Alyan. Her recen...
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Witch School Chapter 13: Claire Davey from 2023-11-03T14:26:51
We found Claire Davey on the summer solstice and bring her to you this Samhain week. Claire shares sacred C...
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Witch School Chapter 12: Chani Nicholas from 2023-10-20T11:01
Join us for a conversation with Chani Nicholas, a best-selling author and astrologer. She and adrienne get into ...
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Witch School Chapter 11: Michael Morris from 2023-10-09T02:32:09
Join us for a conversation with Michael Morris on fall season magic, the feminist dimension of bein...
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Witch School Chapter 10: Aesha Rasheed from 2023-09-18T16:10:53
Aesha Rasheed on emerging shamanism, apprenticeship, loss and ritual, wild magic m...
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Witch School Chapter 9: Edgar Fabián Frías from 2023-09-05T18:24:01
Edgar teaches us about bibliomancy, the many paths of divination in nature, animism, Wixárika, and lettin...
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Witch School Chapter 8: Starhawk from 2023-08-21T20:27:19
Join this conversation with Starhawk where we are traveling time and tending the land, developing a direct relationsh...
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Witch School Chapter 7: Naimonu James from 2023-08-04T08:26
Witch School Chapter 6: Moya Bailey from 2023-07-21T09:25
Moya Bailey, who cast the spell of light on misogynoir, is an astrological ...
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Witch School Chapter 5: Empress Karen Rose from 2023-07-07T06:43:23
Empress Karen Rose guides us through a beautiful and practical journey on reclaiming our...
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Witch School Chapter 4: Jessica Lanyadoo from 2023-06-23T16:01:53
Jessica Lanyadoo is a psychic medium, astrologer, tarot reader, animal communicator, host...
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Witch School, Chapter 3: Geryll “Dr. G. Love” Robinson from 2023-06-09T09:35:27
Geryll “Dr. G. Love” Robinson is an Earthly representative of Intergalactic Royalty. She is a teacher to several guests of this Witch School season, as well as the founder of Five Directions Wel...
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Witch School, Chapter 2: Abigail Bengson from 2023-05-26T09:00
Abigail Bengson is a goddess in the lineage of wild and emotionally accurate singing, her song...
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Witch School, Chapter 1: Omisade Burney-Scott from 2023-05-10T09:25:20
Witch school is in session. adrienne interviews the resplendent Omisade Burney-Scot...
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Welcome to Witch School from 2023-04-28T10:23:38
Season 7 begins with a sister check in, preparing for Autumn heading on sabbatical and adrienne beginning the witch season!
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Revisting the People's Peanut Butter, A 4-20 Special from 2023-04-20T08:20:13
We'll be back with our new season of shows next week! But today, get lost on the river with us as we revisit April, 20th, 2018 in what feels like a different life time.
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DR. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses from 2023-02-23T07:23:20
We are so honored to share an episode with you from one of our favorite podcasts, FOR THE WILD.
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Healing Justice Lineages: THE BOOK IS HERE! from 2023-02-17T16:27:36
In this sweet dive into the new anthology Healing Justice Lineages, adrienne and Autumn get t...
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How to Transmute Anger and Rage with jackie sumell from 2023-02-08T16:53:19
Subscribe to THE BEST ADVICE SHOW wherever you listen to pods. --- jackie sumell's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, including at the American Visionary Art Muse...
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Weaving Emergent Futures, The Brown Sisters at the YWCA Madison from 2023-01-16T09:42:18
On September 29th, 2022 The Brown Sisters joined together to deliver a live dual keynote as a part of the Listen
Love, The Finale from 2022-12-27T11:38:32
The Brown sisters sign off season six (and 2022) with a tender, silly and thorough reflection of what they learned from this year dedicated to the scholarship of bell hooks’ classic text All Abo...
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Back to Wakanda from 2022-12-08T16:49:30
Voice note movie review spoiler extravaganza!! Come with us as we grieve Chadwick Boseman and talk about grief, power, ancestral trauma and struggle.
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Loving As A Family Practice, Pt. 2 from 2022-11-23T17:00:44
In this episode, adrienne and Autumn explore the tender edges of family as a practice when trauma is present, named and unnamed. How can family be a healing ground?
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INTRODUCING: Possibilities of Loving Collaboration with adrienne and Autumn from 2022-11-17T10:02:56
We are thrilled to share this episode from the incredible Possibilities Podcast!
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Loving As A Family Practice, Pt. 1 from 2022-11-03T14:57:41
In this episode the Brown sisters explore what they’ve learned about love at the site of their own family, what they are generating as adults building and holding family, and some things they ha...
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Sustaining Love from 2022-10-20T08:26:50
The currently single Brown sisters discuss some of what they have learned about sustaining love - love for ourselves, love in relationship, love over time. They begin gathering a toolbox for sus...
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Love: From Falling to Choosing from 2022-10-06T14:58:07
bell hooks offers us the wisdom that “love is an act of will, both an intention and an action.” in this episode the brown sisters explore hooks’ critique of the idea that we “fall in love”, the ...
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A New Ask Us Anything! from 2022-09-20T11:11:03
We've got something for you as we get ready to return with the rest of our season All About Love.
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Friendlove from 2022-08-11T14:48:02
adrienne and Autumn continue their exploration of bell hooks' classic All About Love with a free flowing conversation about the sacred, life saving power of friend love.
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Love the Job: Finding the Labor We Love from 2022-07-28T15:26:37
with bell hooks' guidance, adrienne and Autumn trace the conditions that leave us hopeless and despairing at work, and look at what becomes possible when we bring love to our labor, regardless o...
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It's Our Revival from 2022-07-14T16:42:41
adrienne maree was honored to be invited to give the sermon at The Revival: It Is Our Duty, a Juneteenth, Pride Month mus...
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Sovereignty Hymm from 2022-07-01T16:17:27
We learned a song from The Bengsons that we want everyone to learn and sing. Join us.
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A Prayer For Our Bodies from 2022-06-26T08:21:10
won't you celebrate with me - by Lucille Clifton
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Love Multiplied: Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Ethical Non-monogamy from 2022-06-23T07:51:42
In this episode, adrienne and Autumn talk about opening up romantic relationships, the wonder of loving multiple partners, the challenge of love beyond monogamy, and the importance of partnering...
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Love the Child: Care is the Throughline from 2022-06-09T16:15:01
The Brown sisters in very tender, intimate conversation about the times we are loving through and how we hold each other tight and keep co-creating the future.
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Sibling Miniseries Bonus: IBEYI from 2022-05-26T14:48:19
Autumn and adrienne kind of want the sibling miniseries to go on forever, so they were ecstatic when Ibeyi wanted to talk about twinning, c...
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Loving Ourselves Right Now from 2022-05-12T16:22:19
adrienne and Autumn are back with a brand new season, and this year we are looking at L.O.V.E. Love! What is it? Why does it happen? Why does it hurt so bad? Why does it feel so good? And how mi...
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All About Love from 2022-04-28T16:10:04
adrienne and Autumn are back with a brand new season, and this year we are looking at L.O.V.E. Love! What is it? Why does it happen? Why does it hurt so bad? Why does it feel so good? And how mi...
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Ask Us Anything! from 2022-03-31T14:46:37
We made our first Ask Us Anything episode! What you'll hear here is an excerpt from that convo.
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Freedom Dreams from 2022-03-21T07:00
We're so excited to share an episode from a new podcast we think you'll love called Freedom Dreams. It's a show that explores historical examp...
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Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Conversation with Merissa Nathan Gerson from 2022-02-22T18:53:50
In this special bonus episode, we bring you audio from a virtual event hosted by Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, an evening of conversation between Merissa Nathan Gerson, author of Listen
Sibling Miniseries Finale: adrienne and Autumn (interviewed by Dani McClain) Pt. 2 from 2022-02-03T15:39:30
The Brown sisters realized halfway thru this series that they had to be interviewed, and the interviewer had to be Dani McClain (journalist, author, mother, caretaker and chosen sibling). The si...
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Sibling Miniseries Finale: adrienne and Autumn (interviewed by Dani McClain) Pt. 1 from 2022-02-03T15:35:27
The Brown sisters realized halfway thru this series that they had to be interviewed, and the interviewer had to be Dani McClain (journalist, author, mother, caretaker and chosen sibling). The si...
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Sibling Miniseries #11: Faith and Joey Soloway from 2022-01-06T20:12:56
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The. Merch. Is. HERE. from 2022-01-03T15:50:31
Finally, we made you merch! You are gonna look amazing wearing/using this stuff! Head over to Patreon to learn about our ...
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in case it helps / bell hooks asé from 2021-12-18T17:41:13
Sister adrienne reads her latest blog post, on moving through grief and despair. While she was writing it...
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Pandemic Time with Fania and Angela Davis from 2021-12-05T12:00
adrienne and Autumn interview the legendary Angela Davis and Fania Davis. These sisters, who have profoundly shaped the movement for social justice through their work on abolition, restorative j...
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Sibling Miniseries #9: Benji and Maya Hart from 2021-11-18T16:01:16
Our youngest organizer siblings join the Brown sisters to discuss their journeys of becoming radical, with stories on queerness, Blackness and parenting.
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Sibling Miniseries #8: Prentis and Eddie Hemphill from 2021-11-04T17:46:22
Four siblings from Texas doing a deep dive on political shaping, culture shifting and embodiment. With unexpected astrology.
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Sibling Miniseries #7: Aurora and Ricardo Levins-Morales from 2021-10-21T22:55:51
This profound sibling conversation moves us through Haiti, Puerto Rico, Chicago, organizing in communist, Black power and women's movements, the love of nature and the conversational practice of...
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Sibling Miniseries #6: Malkia and Sala from 2021-10-08T14:00
The Brown sisters are joined by Malkia Devich Cyril and Sala Cyril for a conversation on...
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BONUS: The Holding Change Interview from 2021-09-29T15:09:18
Autumn and adrienne go live on Instagram with an interview about Autumn’s essay in Adrienne’s recent facilitation guide, Holding Change: The...
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BONUS: Relating During the Pandemic with Autumn Brown from 2021-09-16T15:30:38
Before our new season kicks off next month, we're thrilled to bring you this essential episode from The Emergent Strategy Podcast. To support ESII, Listen
We Not Ready from 2021-09-07T12:46:56
The sisters drop in with an update on the second half of the season, and a moment of celebration.
Sibling Miniseries #5: Makani and Robin from 2021-06-24T22:54:51
In this episode, the Brown Sisters had the honor of interviewing two siblings who are giants of the social justice movement: Makani Themba and Listen
Sibling Miniseries #4: Una and Michi from 2021-06-10T17:22:23
The Brown Sisters continue the Sibling Miniseries with pleasure and joy mavens Una and Michi Osato, sister performer artist healers who t...
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Sibling Miniseries #3: Cole and Karissa from 2021-05-30T00:34:12
From land ownership to Black liberation to father loss to love upgrades, Karissa Lewis and Co...
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Sibling Miniseries #2: Naina and Navina Khanna from 2021-05-14T02:31:42
The Brown sisters get to spend time with Naina and Navina Khanna, sisters who are transforming the realm of AIDS/HIV women and food justice through their organizing. Their politic is clear and c...
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Sibling Miniseries #1: Naima and Leah from 2021-04-29T10:00
The Brown sisters kick off our sibling interview miniseries with sisters Naima and Leah Penniman, radical farmers and writers who share reflections on their political journeys and family shaping...
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One Drop: A Conversation with Yaba Blay from 2021-04-15T14:46:26
Autumn and adrienne continue their deep dive on blackness and mixed race identity, begun in Season 4 with the episode “Tip of the Iceberg”. In this episode the Brown sisters interview author and...
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Organizers in Space: What Movement Organizing & Space Exploration Can Learn From One Another from 2021-04-08T10:00
Autumn was recently invited to take part in a really fun, mind-bending panel called Organizers in Space. The event was co-hosted by Annie Weinberg, electoral organizer, coach, and strat...
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Fifth Season from 2021-04-05T13:53:30
The Brown sisters are back for season 5 of apocalypse survival philosophy, feelings and tangible skills. In this episode, they catch up a bit on life and unveil the exciting theme that will guid...
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Centering at the End of the World from 2021-03-11T17:45:23
The Brown sisters are back with a new season and this one will include some fundamental practices that help us survive and may help our listeners.adrienne spent the last decade on a learning jou...
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Tip of the Iceberg from 2020-12-17T18:30:26
The sisters share a bit of their interwoven and distinct race stories as daughters of an interracial love story.
Politically Potent, at Dartmouth from 2020-12-03T15:44:49
The sisters speak with students at Dartmouth about the political potency of this moment in context of our histories, uplifting lessons from our ancestors, this uprising time, finding our work an...
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To Witch or Not to Witch from 2020-11-19T17:13:03
adrienne and Autumn sit down to talk about their mutual journeys to understanding the magic that lies within, and can be drawn from the world around us. In this episode, the Brown sisters talk a...
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Election Transmission from 2020-11-10T20:18:15
A little bonus this week! adrienne shared a transmission for the next 2.5 months that we wanted to also make sure our listeners had, along with some thoughts on balancing celebration and critiqu...
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Election Day Debrief from 2020-11-05T13:56:31
Today we are joined by two of the most brilliant humans I know to debrief this election so far. Kat Aaron (@kataaron), podcast producer for Octavia's Parables, power mom, as wel...
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Justice at the Detroit Podcast Festival from 2020-10-22T15:48:38
This is a Detroit love affair of an episode. For How To Survive's first appearance at the Detroit Podcast Festival, we invited two Detroit based...
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Beyond Survival from 2020-10-08T16:32:03
For this week's episode, Autumn and adrienne sit down with Ejeris Dixon (@ejeris) and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (@brownstargirl), the editors of Listen
Being with Terror (with updated audio) from 2020-10-01T15:20:37
An earlier version this episode contained some misaligned audio. Sorry about that!
The sisters turn and face the terror and grief of living through times of great tr...
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Election in End Times from 2020-09-24T07:00
We are reposting the Brown sisters 2018 conversation with Three Point Strategies,’ Jessica Byrd (@JessicaLBYRD) and Kayla Reed (@iKaylaReed) from Action STL. We cover basically everything ...
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True Journey Is Return from 2020-09-17T10:00
Autumn and adrienne return to each other. Ursula le Guin wrote, "true journey is return", and in this conversation the sisters discuss the many ways they are returning to each other and this tim...
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Guest Podcast: Tomi Adeyemi Crafts Fantastic Worlds with Words from 2020-08-27T14:11:56
Before we come back with a full fall slate of episodes, we want to share this episode of Listen
The Auburn Conversation from 2020-08-14T14:29:19
adrienne and Autumn were recipients of Auburn Seminary’s 2020 Lives of Commitment Award, which celebrates women of moral courage. This episode is an audi...
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Queer Astrological Technologies, Live from the 2020 AMC! from 2020-08-01T21:17:35
adrienne and Autumn are joined once again by the incomparable queer astrologer, Chani Nicholas (@chaninicholas), author of You Were Born For This, in the opening plenary of the Listen
On Listening from 2020-07-20T11:00
This episode is a bit different, a three part exploration of listening featuring a short interview with Sterling Toles, and the reading of two pieces adrienne wrote, one on listening for men and...
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Guest Podcast: Fortification from 2020-07-08T14:00
As our summer break continues, we're so excited to feature an episode from our friends at the Fortification podcast.
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Guest Podcast: Tarot for the End of Times from 2020-07-02T21:14:33
2020 is an Emperor Year, a 4 year, so we thought it would be particularly helpful to uplift episode 7: The Emperor, from Tarot for the End of Times,...
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Introducing - Parable of the Sower: Chapter 1 from 2020-06-25T15:01:59
A podcast diving into Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower/Talents, hosted by Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown. Produced by Kat Aaron.
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #10: Lessons from 2020-06-12T13:02:46
Autumn and adrienne reunite for the finale episode of the miniseries. We create a collective altar and read aloud the names of beloveds lost inside the pandemic. We pull lessons from content and...
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #9: The Right to Defend Ourselves from 2020-05-29T00:23:01
We live in a fundamentally violent society. We have the human right to defend and protect ourselves, but for many of us the means of doing so seem inaccessible. How do we protect and secure our ...
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #8: Casa de Salud from 2020-05-23T00:48:21
We survive by building the new world in the shell of the old, and our new world will need a health care system. How do we transition from a health care system rooted in extraction and profit, to...
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #7: The Internet is a Place from 2020-05-16T01:24:07
Now more than ever we are relying on the internet to satisfy our basic needs and desires. This begs the question, what are apocalypse survival skills for the internet? How do we use the internet...
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #6: The OODA Loop from 2020-05-07T16:45:43
We bring you part two of Autumn’s interview with So and Pinar, the love organism behind Queer Nature. We discuss the potential dangers...
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #5: Tactical Hope from 2020-05-01T15:18:24
What behaviors and choices make the difference between life and death in a disaster? What are the skills that will matter most in a crisis, and how do we learn them? Autumn interviews the brilli...
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #4: Braiding Seeds from 2020-04-23T20:32:21
Any scenario of systemic collapse involves a question of how we sustainably feed ourselves and our communities. For a visionary answer, Autumn turns to the illustrious team at Listen
Apocalypse Survival Skill #3: Where There is No Doctor from 2020-04-17T13:00:43
We continue our miniseries with a conversation about how we access medicine, health, and healing when our under-resourced and fragile medical systems are overwhelmed. Autumn interviews community...
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #2: Making Home from 2020-04-10T01:15:19
During this time of economic collapse, many of us are wondering how we will create and maintain homes, if and when we can’t afford to rent or buy. One answer is to take over vacant homes and buildi...
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Apocalypse Survival Skill #1: Shelter in Place from 2020-04-02T18:40:17
We kick off the Apocalypse Survival Miniseries with a special focus on social distancing inside the pandemic. Autumn interviews long time New Yorker Maryse Mitchell-Brody (instagram.com/itsmarysemb...
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Staying In with Emily and Kumail from 2020-03-27T10:00:32
Beloved Survivors, as we work away on our upcoming survival mini-series, we have another special guest treat to share. You might know Kumail and Emily from their collaboration on the 2017 film, The...
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This is Irresistible!!! from 2020-03-24T08:00:10
Meet Irresistible: a community of practice in collective healing and social change. Formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast, their show is all about a commitment to justice and to our own lives...
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Hello Beloved Survivors: Talk To Us from 2020-03-18T18:59:08
We're here today to ask you a question. What are your strategies for intimacy and connection to other humans during this time of social distancing? We're working on a survival series we're planning...
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Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens from 2020-03-12T15:50:49
In this bonus episode from Healing Justice Podcast, we bring you advice about how to adapt your travel and gatherings, timely medical information, invocations, grounding practices and reflections f...
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Guest Podcast: Decolonizing the Crone from 2020-02-19T10:00:10
North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green drops blessings like ripe mango into our laps. Walls breathe a heavy sigh of relief as she shreds the puny narratives we have about who we are and ou...
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Guest Podcast! - Possibilities Podcast featuring adrienne marie brown from 2020-02-05T14:06:25
Guest Podcast: Possibilities Podcast This episode features a rich, laughter filled conversation with social justice facilitator and New York Times best-selling author of Pleasure Activism, adrienn...
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It's Hard Out Here for a Prophet from 2020-01-22T16:28:13
Surprise! In honor of Martin Luther King Jr’s holiday, and to herald the arrival of black history month, we bring you this very special episode, and interview with two black luminaries of the Buddh...
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Flowers After the War from 2020-01-10T00:58:34
The Brown Sisters wrap season 3 with a reflection on what they are proud of from the last year and the last decade, and what intentions they are setting for the year ahead. Plus a teaser of season ...
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Bending Towards the Future with Toshi Reagon from 2019-12-24T21:52:55
The Brown Sisters are coming to you live from the Majestic Theater in Boston, in a gorgeous event sponsored by Emerson College. We welcome back to the show the brilliant musician, composer and acti...
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Sashay Away from Supremacy with Matt McGorry from 2019-12-06T16:21:41
The Brown Sisters sit down with actor, activist and avid reader Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) to discuss unlearning supremacy, loving our bodies and being responsible with our platforms. music by Tu...
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Charlene Carruthers for President: Facing Election Resistance from 2019-11-20T15:02:08
The Brown Sisters sit down with the brilliant Charlene Carruthers, author of Unapologetic and founder of the Chicago Center for Leadership and Transformation, to talk about staying grounded, rigoro...
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Raising Superheroes from 2019-11-07T21:20:54
On this episode, we bringing you an interview from @thebigwepodcast featuring adrienne and Autumn. What do our superpowers teach us about our longings? How do we create spaces for young people to...
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It’s a Process from 2019-10-31T15:22:35
The Brown Sisters are finally reunited in conversation, where they discuss rigor, resilience, and discovering creative process in the midst of change and transition. music by Tunde Olaniran. - www...
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Future Economics Part 2: The Solidarity Economy from 2019-10-17T13:24:47
Back in March 2018, adrienne and Autumn recorded Future Economics Part 1: The Money Talk, an intimate conversation about class, wealth, and debt. They knew they wanted to return with a conversation...
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This World Is Ours to Build from 2019-10-03T15:52:01
We’re baaaaack! Sort of. Autumn and adrienne continue to be juggling busy schedules, so we return for the second half of our 2019 season with a recording from the archives. In this episode you will...
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Guest Podcast 3! - Parenting for Liberation: We Live for the We from 2019-09-20T15:07:22
For our third guest podcast, we are cross posting a conversation hosted by our friend podcast Parenting for Liberation. This summer PFL, with the Underground Railroad and LOOM, invited Erica Chidi ...
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Guest Podcast 2! - Beyoncé's Witchy Virgo Season from 2019-09-05T18:18:55
Our guest this week is A Little Juju podcast, teaching us the witchy wisdom we need to survive these times. Here's an excerpt we found highly relevant for Virgo Season - so we're releasing it in th...
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Guest Podcast 1! - Raising Rebels from 2019-08-15T16:33:17
Raising trans and queer babies is a fundamental survival strategy for all possible futures. This episode drops us into a sweet conversation between mamas raising queer and trans little ones. Enjoy!...
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ima ima boss bitch from 2019-07-31T10:00:15
As they prepare to go on break for August and September, adrienne and autumn offer listeners a window into what’s been going on behind the scenes, and what’s to come. music by Mother Cyborg and Tu...
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What Time It Is, with Movement Generation from 2019-07-17T23:04:03
The sisters have wanted to interview Movement Generation since they conceived of this podcast. Recently, adrienne got to hear Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan give a talk on how we got to this moment of c...
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Sister Interview on Pleasure Activism from 2019-07-03T18:49:15
Autumn guides adrienne into deeper vulnerability around her NY Times bestselling book Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. show notes: https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html h...
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Live Show, U of M from 2019-06-19T19:45:51
Hopefully this is better late than never. The sound quality on this show wasn't up to @muzachary's standards, but the cost/benefit analysis of having Alexis Pauline Gumbs (http://alexispauline.com/...
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Leaving Michael Jackson? from 2019-06-05T16:10:52
Autumn and adrienne talk with DJs, @iamrimarkable, @djkuttinkandi, and @larumorosa about Michael Jackson in the wake of the Leaving Neverland documentary. This is a tender, tough conversation. mus...
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Is Hodor the Real Hero of GOT? (Let Them Eat Spoilers) from 2019-05-21T21:02:25
adrienne and Autumn discuss the highs and lows, surprises and disappointments, and the visionary fashion, of the final season of Game of Thrones. music by Mother Cyborg and Tunde Olaniran - www.pa...
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Browns at Brown: A Live Show from 2019-05-12T17:50:11
The Brown sisters, live at Brown University, with a special guest and lots of feelings. Happy Mother's Day to all who mother! music by Mother Cyborg and Tunde Olaniran - www.patreon.com/Endofthew...
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A Spoilerific Dive Into NK Jemisin's Apocalypse from 2019-05-01T14:01:33
The Brown Sisters read NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy and remembered they knew her and could maybe maybe get a real conversation. Here, they gush and fawn and interrogate with a genius. music b...
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Laurence McKeown, Prisoner to Playwright from 2019-04-17T14:43:01
Laurence McKeown was our gracious host and patient teacher in Northern Ireland - here he tells some of his epic awesome story from teenager to IRA revolutionary and hunger striker to poet and playw...
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An Uneasy Peace from 2019-04-03T13:31:55
Autumn and adrienne share stories from their visionary fiction journey through Northern Ireland, what they learned from the legacy of the conflict, and the possibility of repair in the aftermath of...
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Disability Justice for the Apocalypse: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha Gets Us Together from 2019-03-20T15:21:27
Prolific writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha is a queer disabled femme writer, organizer, performance artist and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. She visits us to disc...
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Wait, it's 2019! from 2019-03-06T14:41:36
The Brown sisters look ahead at 2019 with dreams of glory. music by Mother Cyborg and Tunde Olaniran and the song, "True Love" written by Michaela Harrison (https://www.facebook.com/Michaela-A-Har...
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2018 From Trash to Treasure from 2018-12-19T15:02:06
The Brown sisters find the magnificent treasures of culture and life lessons amongst the dumpster firescape of 2018. Listen for our faves of everything, with a hint of vulnerability and a flash of ...
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The Practice of Freedom: A Conversation with Siwatu-Salama Ra and Rhonda Anderson from 2018-12-06T03:30:05
We are humbled and honored to speak with Siwatu-Salama Ra, an environmental activist based in Detroit who was wrongfully imprisoned while pregnant, and her mother Rhonda Anderson, about prison, sur...
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Awww Shucks: How Do We Prepare for Climate Apocalypse? from 2018-11-21T14:33:41
Our first advice column! Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/ @endoftheworldPC --- Send in a voice message: ...
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The Practices We Need: #metoo and Transformative Justice Part 2 from 2018-11-07T16:50:42
Today the Brown sisters talk with transformative justice practitioner Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) and get our minds blown with frameworks and breakthroughs on how to really address harm and grow ...
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Elections in End Times #BlackNovember from 2018-10-24T14:02:49
Join the Brown sisters for a conversation with Three Point Strategies' Jessica Byrd and Kayla Reed. We cover basically everything we need to know about engaging in the electoral process, especially...
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Apocalypse Survival Skills #1: Grow and Preserve from 2018-10-17T15:02:37
In this episode, our resident inexpert gardener, Autumn, talks us through the trials of garden management and the glory of food preservation. Music by Tunde Olaniran (his new album, "Stranger", is...
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The Apocalypse We Live In : State Violence and Repression from 2018-10-10T16:52:24
Join us for a difficult conversation about how we sustain movements under state violence and repression. Music by Tunde Olaniran (his new album, "Stranger", is out now!) and Mother Cyborg - www.p...
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Dr. Ford's Dignity from 2018-10-02T13:44:20
We must define our own victories in this daunting political climate. Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg - www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow endoftheworldshow.org @endoftheworldPC --- Se...
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The Impossible Things About Us from 2018-09-26T16:02:22
In this episode, the brown sisters explore the impossible things about us, and how getting in right relationship with ourselves, our vulnerability, and our purpose might help us heal from the inevi...
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Black Love: A Day at the Museum from 2018-09-12T15:16:35
Autumn and adrienne are back from their summer break. In this episode, the Brown sisters share their powerful experience at the National Museum of African American History & Culture and the Nationa...
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And We Out! from 2018-07-03T21:13:24
adrienne and Autumn check in around summer plans. (We're taking July and August off and will be back at it come September.) www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cybo...
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How to Survive Live in Detroit from 2018-06-19T12:59:04
Every year in June, social justice organizers, artists, and media makers from around the country (and beyond) gather in Detroit for the Allied Media Conference. Autumn and adrienne sat down on day...
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The Apocalypse We Need: #metoo and Transformative Justice Part 1 from 2018-06-05T18:03:40
This episode is the first in a series of conversations about #metoo and the apocalypse of patriarchy and rape culture. In this first conversation, adrienne and Autumn share about the personal impac...
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Your People Will Find You: The Octavia Butler Legacy Network from 2018-05-22T14:40:35
"The act of writing itself was a kind of therapy." - Octavia Butler https://www.patreon.com/oeblegacy The Brown sisters sat down with the brilliant team at the Octavia E Butler Legacy Network to ...
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In the Pattern from 2018-05-08T14:11:56
"When her enemies came to kill her, she knew more about surviving than they did about killing." - Octavia Butler, Wild Seed The Brown sisters geek out over Octavia Butler's Patternist series, find...
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Reshaping Apocalypse from 2018-04-24T08:00:04
In this episode, adrienne interviews Autumn about apocalypse in the popular imagination, the myths and realities of disasters and their aftermath, and shaping a family towards survival, cooperation...
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4/20 SPECIAL: The People's Peanut Butter from 2018-04-20T20:20:03
Get high with amb for 4ty minutes and 20 seconds (4/20 special). Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endofthewo...
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Taking Root Amongst the Stars with Chani Nicholas from 2018-04-10T13:15:20
"Our destiny is to take root amongst the stars." - Octavia Butler The Brown sisters go behind the night sky with one of our favorite astrologers, Chani Nicholas. We reflect on how to relate to and...
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Future Economics Part 1: The Money Talk from 2018-03-27T19:43:40
For this episode, Autumn and adrienne peel back the layers of story, assumption and shame around class, debt and money. This is the first of an on-going series that will look at post apocalyptic e...
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There’s a New World Comin’ with Toshi Reagon from 2018-03-13T18:07:01
In today’s episode, the Brown sisters interview the legendary Toshi Reagon about the making of the Parable of the Sower Opera, a production years in the making, based on the dystopian novel by Octa...
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The Wisdom Body from 2018-02-27T15:01:27
In this episode the Brown sisters explore their shared practice of tarot reading, from what it is, to how they use it, to what it has to do with survival and justice. Episode includes 2018 readings...
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44 Minutes on Wakanda from 2018-02-24T15:37:34
The Brown sisters went to Wakanda! Afterwards we recorded 44 minutes of gushing, SPOILERIFIC processing of the movie! Why 44? Because that's how much room we had on our SD card, and Shuri wasn't th...
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Shitting Our Pants from 2018-02-13T22:26:53
The Brown Sisters are back! In our kickoff of Season 2, we share our gratitude and lessons from the pilot season, teasers of what is coming your way this year, and let you in on the way this podcas...
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Grieving, Loving Ursula Le Guin from 2018-01-29T00:03:25
Writer Ursula K. Le Guin died last week. She was 88. adrienne reflects on her relationship with the god, the writer, the thinker, the mother. (with an excerpt from Ursula K. Le Guin accepting the ...
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Star Wars: A Spoiler Extravaganza from 2017-12-29T23:01:51
Bonus Episode! Autumn and adrienne went to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi and couldn't let the year end with a somewhat tipsy spoiler extravaganza on this radical cultural offering. Join them in th...
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A Breathing Chorus with Alexis Pauline Gumbs from 2017-12-20T02:18:22
"To get along with God, consider the consequences of your behavior." - Octavia Butler, Earthseed Verses We are so excited to bring to you a conversation with our amazing comrade, our inspirational...
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Decolonize the Body from 2017-12-12T15:15:54
We are Earthseed. We are flesh—self aware, questing, problem-solving flesh. We are that aspect of Earthlife best able to shape God knowingly. We are Earthlife maturing, Earthlife preparing to fall ...
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Completion Matters from 2017-12-05T15:32:55
"To survive, let the past teach you. Past customs, struggles, leaders and thinkers. Let these help you. Let them inspire you, warn you, give you strength. But beware, God is change. Past is past. W...
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Let the Ancestors Speak from 2017-11-28T18:20:08
We want you to know more about who we are. We thought one way to do that is to open a window on to our creative practices of writing fiction, which leads into a conversation about channeling our an...
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God is Change from 2017-11-21T13:46:10
Welcome to the pilot season of How to Survive the End of the World. This first season is us learning what this show wants and needs to be, and giving listeners a chance to get to know us. We dive d...
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Trailer: This is how to survive the end of the world from 2017-11-07T19:25:29
How to Survive the End of the World is a new podcast hosted by sisters Autumn and adrienne maree brown. The Brown Sisters are learning from the apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity. Autumn ...
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