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…
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The How to Survive the End of the World podcast is an absolute gem in the world of podcasts. From the moment I started listening, I was completely hooked. Each episode is a thought-provoking and engaging conversation that fills me with love, wisdom, and inspiration. I am so grateful to have discovered this podcast and it has quickly become my go-to virtual hangout for wisdom, pleasure, laughter, and learning.
One of the best aspects of this podcast is the deep level of engagement and challenge it provides. The hosts, Adrienne and Autumn, dive deep into their topics with guests and explore them from various angles. They are not afraid to ask tough questions or discuss uncomfortable subjects, which makes for incredibly enriching episodes. Their conversations provide peace, awakening, and plans of action that leave me feeling inspired and rejuvenated after each listen.
Another aspect that sets this podcast apart is the genuine warmth and welcoming atmosphere created by the sisters. The way they interact with each other and their guests feels like a warm embrace. They have a unique ability to make everyone feel seen, understood, and valued. This creates a safe space for vulnerability and allows for deeper exploration of ideas.
While it's difficult to find any major faults with this podcast, one minor issue that some listeners may encounter is the wide range of sound in each episode. This can result in having to adjust the volume frequently while listening, especially if casting from a speaker. It would be helpful if Adrienne's mic could be upped slightly or if the sound could be mixed to create a more even balance.
In conclusion, The How to Survive the End of the World podcast is an absolute must-listen for anyone interested in personal growth, social justice, sisterhood, or science fiction. The depth of knowledge shared by Adrienne and Autumn, along with their brilliant lineup of guests, makes for a fabulous celebration of all three themes. This podcast has brought immense wisdom and joy into my life, and I am forever grateful for the gifts it has given me. Keep up the incredible work, Adrienne and Autumn!
adrienne is joined at her home by Devin Atallah and Sarah Ihmoud to hear their love story. They discuss what love has to do with solidarity, falling in love, Palestinians in love, searching for love, eternal love, self love, decolonial love, love during a genocide, Palestine as a land of love, love as a way of breaking the cycle, love and light, idealized love, dreams as love, being activated by love, love as rerouting and love for humanity.Devin Atallah is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB). He is a diaspora Palestinian from the USA and Chile. Dr. Atallah developed a Palestinian decolonial healing guide with colleagues, CURCUMs Trees: A Decolonial Healing Guide for Palestinian Community Health Workers, which is available in English and Arabic with Mayfly Books.Sarah Ihmoud is a Chicana-Palestinian anthropologist who works to uplift the lived experiences, histories, and political contributions of Palestinian women and Palestinian feminism. She is a founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, an executive board member of Insaniyyat, the Society of Palestinian Anthropologists, and is assistant professor of anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
The sisters are thrilled to welcome Dean Spade to the show! He has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law and author of the new book, Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together.Dean and Autumn and adrienne discuss holding anxiety in your body, literally touching and flirting with trees, the most exciting thing on your horizon, giving eachother what we need, self-authorizing, the dangers of isolation, why we become relationship monsters, love as a psychedelic journey, how our childhoods play into our patterns, Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendrix, everyone needing good, quality attention, the exclusivity spell, normalizing jealousy, locating our personal sore spots and whether we're gonna be able to move together enough to stop these ecocidal maniacs bent on killing us all!---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
The sisters convene to consider the realizion that aging means being in grief all the time but continuing, nonetheless, writing in the bath, taking responsibility for our inner state, the free Channi Breakthrough Course, the dream job of being a backup vocalist, political youth theatre, awesome kids learning from awesome parents, conflicted perpetrators and the sisters' personal journey on that pathway, 9/11, what it means to be an American, the disorientation and nausea of "What the hell? I'm the hell!", leaving cults when you realized it all made sense till it didn't, how Robin Hood triggered anti-authoritarianism, the rich history of student organizing at Columbia, the normalization of being at the top of a military superpower, the big question of 'is anything real?', having a different kind of conversation with your parents, sitting with the ocean, the cult of purity, fugitive resistance as a way of resisting the ideology of the state, figuring out how to not shop on Amazon, moving from cult to cult, needing a new belief system, and how solidarity is the only salve once you recognize that you're in the perpetrator role.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
The sisters answer a listener question about how to interface with critical feedback and even trolling. They dive into the the importance of belonging and the ways they establish safety and boundaries in their lives, how self-protection is crucial in maintaining mental health, and how competing political priorities can lead to feelings of abandonment but don't need to!---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
Today's conversation is long-overdue. The sisters have been circling, admiring and inspired by Sarah Schulman for many years. Finally, they convene to discuss the particularities of solidarity, how heroism and perfectionism can hinder participation in solidarity and how historical perspectives on solidarity reveal its multifaceted nature. Schulman's new book is The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. She teaches Creative Writing (Nonfiction and Fiction) with an emphasis on manuscript development at Northwestern University. She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer and AIDS historian.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
adrienne is thrilled to connect with the co-founder of Slow Factory and author of A Woman is a School, Céline Semaan. Celine shares her journey as a Lebanese-American and the founder of Slow Factory, emphasizing the need for slowness and mindfulness in a fast-paced world. They discuss the role of the Hakawati, the significance of personal narratives, the need to be humanized, the inadequacy of existing genres, the capacity to listen more and the process of writing a transformational text like Celine's book.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
The sisters are thrilled to learn from Dr. Sunita Sah and discuss her brilliant book Defy: The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes. The conversation explores the complex relationship between compliance and defiance and emphasizes the importance of understanding our values and the social pressures that influence our behavior. Dr. Sah also teaches us about the Defiance Compass, which can help us navigate our values and actions.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcome Rabbis Jessica Rosenberg and Ariana Katz, co-authors of For Times Such as These: A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year. They explore themes of spirituality, community engagement, personal emotional states, and the urgent context of their writing amidst social and political upheaval. The discussion highlights the importance of radical Jewish practices and the role of community in navigating these challenging times.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
The sisters continue their meditations on solidarity as they delve into navigating personal and professional growth, anxiety and parenting dynamics, understanding mutual activation, the role of art and expression in difficult times, Andor, taking action against apathy, the fragility of fascism and collective action, “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded”, deinstitutionalizing solidarity work and the power of presence in grief, and why note taking is solidarity.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
Warning, this episode includes mention of suicide. A previous version of this episode didn't include this trigger warning. Apologies.---The sisters get into it as they continue to explore the theme of solidarity. They discuss the importance of understanding solidarity beyond traditional movement frameworks, the need for decentralization in organized movements, how tenderness in movement spaces fosters connection and understanding and how movements can detoxify and soften in order to grow and adapt to current challenges.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOW! -https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcomeDr. Eve L. Ewing to get deep into her new book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.Dr. Ewing is also the author of Electric Arches, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, 1919, and Maya and the Robot. She writes comic books, including Exceptional X-Men and Ironheart and Black Panther. And TV, and theater, and a lot of other things as well.She's an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, where she teaches courses on education and racial inequality and directs the Beyond Schools Lab.Dr.Ewing is also a cultural organizer, which means she works collectively with other people to to build and nurture creative communities, and strive for social transformation through artistic and cultural practices.In this engaging conversation, we learn about Dr. Ewing's teaching experiences, and her reflections on the difference between school and educations. The conversation flows through themes of Afrofuturisms and imaging alternatives to our current moment. They explore the tension between education as liberation versus control, and the implications of these narratives on contemporary schooling and the carceral system.---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOW! -https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
adrienne and Autumn welcome Roan Boucher to explore the complex themes of Christian nationalism and its implications for contemporary social justice movements. Roan schools us on the historical context of the movement, tracing its origins back to the 1970s and its response to civil rights movements. The discussion also highlights the role of Christian Zionism and the New Apostolic Reformation in shaping contemporary political landscapes, emphasizing the need to understand these movements seriously and their impact on liberation efforts. See the handpicked resources from Roan below! --- Roan's political education trainings for organizations: Confronting Christian Supremacy and Liberation For All Of Us: Queer and Trans Liberation as Collective Liberation Wild Faith: How The Christian Right is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart The Real Origins of the Religious Right, Randall Balmer (Politico) Political Research Associates, and their podcast Inform Your Resistance The Anti-Trans Hate Machine podcast --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
Join adrienne and Autumn as they discuss the fundamentals of creating a go bag on HTS producer, Zak Rosen's podcast, The Best Advice Show. Inspired by wisdom from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and a listener's inquiry, Zak and the sisters delve into practical steps for emergency preparedness, the psychological barriers of starting, and the importance of preparing in community. From essential items to include to practicing quick evacuations, this episode is packed with valuable advice for surviving in unpredictable situations. The excerpt of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler was read by Lucie Putnam --- YK Hong: Liberatory strategy + Tech justice Go Bag Essentials Tactical Hope and the OODA Loop from How to Survive the End of the World --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
adrienne and Autumn sit down together to offer prayers and presence in response to the fires in LA County. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
Autumn and adrienne offer some vulnerable reflections on this past year - crises, compassion, collaboration and change. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
Autumn and adrienne beam in from the same room to talk to activist, trainer, strategist and writer, Daniel Hunter, founder of Choose Democracy. Daniel is the author of Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow, Climate Resistance Handbook, and Strategy and Soul. The discussion covers the importance of humility and the power of prefigurative action. They explore historical examples of resistance, the necessity of humor and symbols in movements, and the intersection of visionary storytelling with tactical disobedience. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
In this episode, originally recorded on IG live, adrienne and Nelini Stamp, National Organizing Director at the Working Families Party, dish on rest, musicals, organizing, culture, and the authenticity of belief and action. They explore the importance of connecting with people's cultural interests, the significance of having strong beliefs, and the need for continuous engagement and evolution in progressive movements. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
A live one from Detroit with adrienne and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson who is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and teacher working to help create the best possible climate future. Ayana is the host of the podcast, What If We Get It Right? The conversation and moderated by Orlando P. Bailey of Outlier Media. This conversation was hosted by Urban Consulate, supported by the Kresge Foundation. This episode was produced and edited by Nora Saks and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with recording help in Detroit from Afrochine. It is also being released on the podcast adrienne co-hosts with her sister, autumn brown, called How to Survive the End of the World. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
adrienne and Autumn sit down with great teacher, Norma Wong, whose new book, When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse, was released the day after the election. Wong brings her years of organizing, electoral work, and spiritual practice to bear on this moment of collapse, with wisdom, wit, and deep care for all life. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
election time with amb with Chase Strangio and Shelby Chestnut, focused on the current moment in the struggle for trans rights.follow @chasestrangio @shelbymt @translawcenter for ways to show up in this upcoming Supreme Court case
Heading into the election and building on our ongoing series, election time with amb, adrienne and Autumn discuss taking responsibility for the political terrain where we stand, rooting in moments of intimacy, how to orient to this election, actual loss, the landscape at the national level of revolutionary organizing, build and defend, blocking MAGA while building the left, political advertisements, Vote by Pal, Swap My Vote, surviving inside this contradiction, a care-based society and what's needed in this next period in history. --- No matter the outcome of the election, the fight for freedom will continue. As we regroup and continue our efforts to block fascism and build power locally, nationally and globally, we will need to fortify ourselves for ongoing struggle. How do we build endurance for liberation? Join Autumn, Ricardo Levins Morales and Arianna Genis on Friday, Novemeber 15th @ 8:30 CT as they explore the power of combining our historical wisdom with innovative thinking. Our collective revolutionary past offers invaluable lessons, while our shared visions of the future inspire us to explore unconventional approaches. Our future depends on our ability to rise to this challenge. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-generations-tickets-1043176738707 --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
adrienne sits down with two members of AUTUMN the Band, Autumn and her dear core collaborator Nehemiah Luckett, to listen to their latest EP, The Way Your Blood Beats. They talk about process and collaboration, transmuting grief and rage through song, and making a "weird party." Get AUTUMN's music on vinyl! - https://autumnbrown.bandcamp.com/album/the-animal-in-you-the-way-your-blood-beats More from AUTUMN on Bandcamp - https://autumnbrown.bandcamp.com/
Vanessa German is an Asheville based artist. In this episode, which you can watch on adrienne's IG, they talk about grief and art and spirit and angel/miracle work. Good medicine came through this one. Part 2 of their convo is here @ https://www.instagram.com/p/DBKFMX3gwLk/?hl=en--- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
adrienne is joined by Palestinian poet-organizer Devin George Atallah for a conversation on Palestinian grief, solidarity, endurance, what we are learning in this time, and poetry. This conversation was recorded on IG and can be seen here. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
adrienne and AUTUMN reunite to kick off Season 8 and it feels so good. They discuss caterpillar to butterfly transformation, AUTUMN's performance residency, dojo shit, opportunities to opt-out of making a choice or having an opinion, feeling sad, Palestine, weighing which loss gives you the most territory to continue fighting, social media as a tool of Empire, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Account Right Now by Jaron Lanier, and listening to people as a way of building power. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
in this conversation Professor, Writer, Shit-Talker, Feminist, Southerner, Brittney Cooper and adrienne discuss the election and how black women are participating in the voting process with a longer lens. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
in this conversation Michelle Mascarenhas and adrienne discuss how we are, a time of endings, frameworks for understanding how change happens and how we harness it, and more! --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
adrienne was so grateful to catch up with Palestinian organizer Linda Sarsour who is at the DNC this week. we talk about not judging people's emotions as they navigate organizing through trauma, not letting people divide us, grieving as we go, outside/inside strategies, the role of faith and more. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
in this conversation adrienne talks with Sendolo Diaminah (@insurgente_lola) about being in a time of endings, moving as a community vs as an individual, leadership and prophets, and what formation and discernment look like in practice. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
talking with Ash-Lee Woodward Henderson about clear demands, being honest about power, walking and chewing gum, and so much tactic/strategy clarity! --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
grief, story, organizing and power - incredibly helpful wisdom from the one and only Malkia Devich Cyril.#electiontimewithamb --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
deep breath of a conversation with Makani Themba, author of the forthcoming Our Beautiful Next, about time, elections, power, spirit, corporate pressure and more. #electiontimewithamb --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
You know we love Alexis Pauline Gumbs here at HTS, so we're so excited to present her episode from a show we recently discovered. It's called Mother is a Question. MIAQ is an invitation into the depths of mothers' hearts, minds and stories. Join best friends Julia Metzger-Traber and Tasha Haverty as they crack open definitions of motherhood and listen for the unspeakable through playful, intimate conversations with mothers from all walks of life. Mother is a Question is a portal into the kaleidoscopically different and yet universal experiences of what it means to mother. Not another chat show sharing practical advice from the daily frontlines of mothering, but a space to live in the questions, and enlist the existential and poetic wisdom of those who mother. What would the world be if we took mothers' questions and their wisdom seriously? Tasha and Julia, both mothers of babies and small children– sleepless and overwhelmed, renewed and disjointed, transformed and confused – are seeking wisdom from all directions. But rather than expecting any final answers, each question opens up many more. The hosts' own friendship dynamic–with their sometimes contrasting fascinations and struggles in motherhood–guides each episode, fed by a flow of listeners' reflections and stories shared on the show's “heartline,” a voicemail box, exploring that episode's central question. On this episode they ask... What if humans could evolve into our most nurturing and creative selves? What if society were organized around care instead of extraction and destruction? What if we followed the leadership of those who mother? Well, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, self-proclaimed Black Feminist Love Evangelist, thinks we have to. It's urgent. And she calls this possibility Motherful. This episode, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a poet and one of Julia's philosopher heroes, will be our guide to A Motherful World.
Hala Alyan and adrienne meditate with grief, revisit endurance, share poems and thoughts on tides turning and elections and what is real and who is urgent.hala's newsletter moonseed is now on substack @ halaalyan.substack.comfollow @hala.n.alyan and @fariha_roisin for a month of poemslove you, keep going
From Prentis Hemphill, the host and producer of the Finding Our Way podcast comes a new podcast: Becoming the People. Prentis is in conversation with the thinkers, creators, and doers who are exploring some of the most relevant questions of our time: What will it take for us to change as a species? How do we create relationships that lead to collective transformation, and what will it take for us to heal? We hope this podcast helps us uncover the path of how to become the people of our time. In Becoming the People's inaugural episode, Prentis is joined by their dear friend adrienne maree brown. adrienne interviews Prentis about their upcoming book, What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World. These two friends discuss Prentis' journey of writing this book, the role that transformational characters play in change work, and why we should prioritize healing in this painful moment of history. Get Prentis' new book, What It Takes To Heal. Find out more on www.prentishemphill.com Producers: Prentis Hemphill & devon de Leña Sound Engineer and Editing: Michael Maine Research Assistant: Bhavana Nancherla Original Music by Mayadda
We're taking some time off this summer but while we're away we're excited to share some shows in our ecology. Today we're playing part of a docuseries from the folks at Respair Media. Help This Garden Grow is a new podcast docuseries telling the story of Hazel Johnson, a visionary of the Environmental Justice movement and a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side of Chicago. Hazel is the founder of People for Community Recovery, a 40 year-old organization that fights to address the toxic industrial pollution that has been killing the members of her community. Over the course of the multigenerational multipart documentary, hosts Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger talk with organizers, policy- makers, historians, and community members about how PCR emerged and led, the legacy of Ms. Johnson's work, and how this marginalized Chicago pocket built the lineage of today's vibrant, impactful, and necessary modern environmental justice movement. Help This Garden Grow is presented by Respair Production & Media, Elevate, and People for Community Recovery. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
Join the sisters as they discuss Columbia's People's Graduation, the new Keith Haring exhibit, Lovecraft Country, Charlotte Day Wilson, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Cowboy Carter, claiming space in the historic, moving slowly as an artist, social media as activism or not, drama rising to the top, making meme poems daily, being a POI, not shitting on one another, the most recent season of True Detective, Poems for Palestine and previewing our new season of “SOLIDARITY AS LOVE!,” oh and not getting boxed in as an artist and letting art pass through you. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg , The Bengsons andd AUTUMN --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
In a final, mistakenly overlooked Witch episode, gina Breedlove and adrienne get into Grace's language, singing the Delfonics, kneeling before different altars, connecting to the throughline of love and peace, moving to the Bay, missionary lineage, touching cemetery dirt, a sense of connection to a patron saint in Ireland, using sound to express grief, holy roller Baptism, the holy ghost taking over for the first time, speaking in tongues, something about our generation partnering across time/space realities, the practice of being a channel, the importance of grief-letting, care-taking as grief avoidance and spiritual hygiene. gina Breedlove (she/they/grace) is a sound healer, grief doula, vocalist, composer, and oracle for Grace, born in Brooklyn, N.Y. She began her walk with spirit and sound at age 9, singing in her family's missionary baptist church near the Apalachicola river, in florida. gina has toured the world as featured vocalist with Harry Belafonte, Craig Harris, Sekou Sundiata, and Ronny Jordan, to name a few. She created the role of "Sarabi", for the Broadway production of, "The Lion King", has worked on two Spike Lee joints, as an actor and sound healer, recorded two records, "Open Heart", & "Language of Light", and has just completed writing a book for Sounds True publishing, to be released in November, 2023, titled: The Vibration of Grace: Sound Healing Rituals for Liberation. gina currently tours with her music and sound healing offerings, sharing the medicine of Grace in every city she visits. She comes from red dirt, brackish water, moss covered trees, and a lineage of women who lay hands, and source the limitless power of sound as a healing modality. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg , The Bengsons andd AUTUMN --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
Autumn interviews adrienne about our yearlong season of the Witch. They get into working with nature, Karis Nemik's manifesto from Andor, humor as a spell, Autumns' spit-takes from birth to death, Witch Season as a Delight Fest, writing letters to God, Love as Craft whether you're with someone or not, to be part of something that's interconnected, taking the time to get right with yourself about what you're really here to do and how to cast the spell of your life and adrienne's forthcoming book, Loving Corrections. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg, The Bengsons and AUTUMN --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
For their grand reunion, adrienne and Autumn discuss picking weeds (but not condemning their existence as a species), periods as Cave Goddess, what would a culture of ritual around friend-death look like, the month of April astrologically being a shit show, our stories of suffering, getting EGGED, silly humans, humor as a firm mattress, sabbatical as reset, the actual experience of the mystery taking over, letting the body make a beautiful thing, finding divinity outside movement work, injury as teacher and the globalization of disorientation. --- TRANSCRIPT --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg, The Bengsons and AUTUMN --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
It's Witch School graduation day with Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Sangodare! They discuss priestly practice, dropping down and back and into your center, movements of people around the world stepping up, conjuring love, the lineage of love, worshipping our partners, reading sacred texts, forgiveness your Lyft and/or Uber driver, amplifying the best of us, reclaiming love-craft and love as the essential nature of all that supports life. --- TRANSCRIPT --- Ṣangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) is a sweet space for transformation. Ṣangodare comes from a thick legacy of Black Baptist preachers and church leaders and currently activates Black Feminist sermonics at a weekly Sunday Service held by Mobile Homecoming Trust. As co-founder of Black Feminist Film School (2012), Visiting Artist in Film at Lawrence University (2017-18) and Artist in Residence at UMN-Twin Cities in the Art Department (2017-19), Ṣangodare brings a creative, evolutionary and love filled approach to filmmaking, composing, interactive design and preaching. As co-founder of Black Feminist Film School (founded along with Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs, APG) Ṣangodare created Ritual Screening, a film viewing technology that is interactive and grounded in Black Feminist practice and our non-linear reality. As co-founder of Mobile Homecoming with APG, a national experiential archive project, Ṣangodare amplifies generations of Black LGBTQ brilliance. Ṣangodare's most recent exhibition called Inherit Light: An Evolutionary Practice of Love Consciousness (including a month long gallery exhibition at UMN in 2018) engages Black southern preaching and singing legacies, sound, altars, sacred implements through sculpture and installations, film and nature. It also features small and large-scale ruminations on round sculpture and buildings - domes. The dome in Inherit Light is the multi-sensory and interactive sacred space where Ṣangodare's invocations and sermons are ignited through the site-specific exhibits of Inherit Light. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities has held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Alexis's co-edited volume Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016) has shifted the conversation on mothering, parenting and queer transformation. Alexis has transformed the scope of intellectual, creative and oracular writing with her triptych of experimental works published by Duke University Press (Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity in 2016, M Archive: After the End of the World in 2018 and Dub: Finding Ceremony, 2020.) Unlike most academic texts, Alexis's work has inspired artists across form to create dance works, installation work, paintings, processionals, divination practices, operas, quilts and more. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
adrienne welcomes yoga teacher Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen to Witch School. Sign up for her newsletter here. They discuss A-ha moments during yoga, subtle shifts, the somatic experience of being alive, the miraculous mundane, remembering childhood magic, growing up in Nairobi, the beauty of the cycles of the land in the US, the structure of ashtanga yoga, how the threads of dominant culture show up in our spiritual and wellness spaces, Lama Rod Owens, a great web of potential liberation, light feminine and dark feminine energy, parenting as world-building + a future-shaping spell to close out the episode. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
adrienne welcomes Dori Midnight, a community care practitioner, ritual leader, writer, and deep listener oriented towards healing and liberation. They discuss how everything is a ritual, palm reading, holding community stories, ancestral healing practices, creative ritual spaces, spell writing, having agency in our presence, prophecy, translations for G-d, reading about ancient prophets, feeling grief and adorned, golden, jewelry mouths. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
Z Griss is the founder of EmbodyMoreLove.com, a spiritual kinky dance community for personal & cultural liberation. On this episode adrienne and Z discuss what time is it on the clock of the world, veils being pulled back, flapping your knees like butterfly wings, being comfortable around our own magic, moments of discomfort in the presence of our children's magic, Z's chutzpah companion, transforming pain into love, the moment you thought you were able bodied and had your first big injury, an initiation into how to be with apocalypse and the opening that sex-magic can offer us. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
adrienne is joined by The Free Will Astrologer, Rob Brezsny. They discuss ecocide, the 6 or 7 genocides going on in the world, holding each other tight, the duality of the moment, abiding in the paradox, finding the ways that life moves toward life, daddy witchcraft, adoring our stories, arguing with people who want nothing but transcendence, celebrating the privilege of being in this miraculous and mysterious mode, recording dreams as a child, Feral Paradise University and cultivating a state of ecstatic altered awareness as a way of life. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
Join adrienne for a tender conversation with Kristiana Rae and Johnaé Strong about how they generated family as a verb in the wake of losing the father of their children in an accident in 2021. This episode originally ran on adrienne's IG. It's offered here as a resource in our collective work of grief and love.--- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- Music by Tunde Olaniran --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
adrienne gets witchy with Makani Themba who was previously on the show (6/24/21) with her brother, Robin D.G. Kelly. adrienne and Makani discuss incanting power, the way our voices vibrate when we're chanting, when we make ourselves on body, re-membering, Betty Shabazz, patriarchal organizing, love as the ultimate witchy force, Sonia Sanchez, the power of the medicine we're given, using music to shape ourselves, collective playlists, Egyptian astrology, the end of the patriarchal epic, how we bend the arc of justice and understanding abundance.Makani Themba is Chief Strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies based in Jackson, Mississippi. A social justice innovator and pioneer in the field of change communications and narrative strategy, she has spent more than 20 years supporting organizations, coalitions and philanthropic institutions in developing high impact change initiatives. Higher Ground Change Strategies provides her the opportunity to bring her strong sense of history, social justice and organizing knowledge, and deft movement facilitation skills in support of change makers seeking to take their work to the next level. Higher Ground helps partners integrate authentic engagement, systems analysis, change communications and more for powerful, vision-based change. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
adrienne welcomes Queer, non-binary, gender expansive, Two-Spirit human, Sara Flores to Witch School. They get into hot springs, presence-ing, “where intention flows energy goes”, mother's backyard garden, picking red berries, making magic potions, being in a safe imaginary land, sacred kink, PLEASURE, surviving target violence, midwifery, the word “midwife”, unearthing what's behind all of this, witch hunts on Turtle Island, children feeling magic, accessing your own divinity instead of someone else's, the secret mission of this whole season being that we all have it, being specific, the plant you need is always nearest to you, yarro, spider medicine, not wanting to knock down wasp nests and safeguarding our attention! Sara Flores (they/them) is a midwife who strives to forward the legacy of those who protected and passed on Indigenous Sacred Technology and who see health and bodily autonomy as key aspects of individual and collective liberation. They are a Registered Nurse, Certified Nurse Midwife, and Reproductive Justice Health Nurse Practitioner by way of the cis-heteronormative, racist education model that they are determined to disrupt. Sara has experienced joy and community accountability as co-author of “Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois”, being a founding member of the Healing Clinic Collective which provides free traditional healing clinics throughout Occupied Huichin(Bay Area California), and being a member of The Intergalactic Council of Midwives, a council that enhances the spiritual fortitude of midwives. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
adrienne takes a break from our regular program to bring us a very special bonus episode with a super special guest: AUTUMN, the band! Podcast cohost Autumn Brown comes back, this time as a guest to talk about her debut EP, The Animal in You. The Brown Sisters are joined by Autumn's brilliant collaborators Nehemiah Luckett, Merrill Garbus, and Sterling Duns. Tune in to hear adrienne interview the team about the process of producing the EP, with intimate look at each song. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg, The Bengsons & AUTUMN --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
adrienne is thrilled to welcome Adaku Utah to Witch School. Baltimore born, Nigeria, Maryland, raised in Festac, Nigeria, grounded in her legacy of organizers, farmers and healers, Adaku harnesses her seasoned skills as a grassroots strategist, holistic healer, transformative facilitator, somatics coach and ritual artist as an act of love and commitment to her community. They enjoy co-cultivating strategic, sustainable, and impactful social justice leaders and organizations. For over twenty years, their work has centered on movements for radical social change, with a focus on gender, reproductive, race, youth, and healing justice. They are the co-founder of Harriet's Apothecary. On this episode adrienne and Adaku talk about sabbatical, life beyond what we thought, abundance, the core roots of the magic we're holding. witchwork as an expression of awe, the taste of joy, the texture of despair, the rhythm of earth seasons, the cycles of the moon, the sounds of drumming and humming and feet on land, receiving the touch of a loved one, the wisdom of ancestors from the underground railroad, mushrooms and crushing on your first babysitter. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
adrienne is joined by Southern born, Queer, Black, Bay Area based somatic healer, awakener, bodyworker, ritualist, & song weaver, MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo. They dig into setting up a witch school for your heart, fat phobia in the medical industrial complex, healing what is wounded, being a bridge, GAYTE-keeping, patriarchal bullshit, finding that divine mirror, manifesting heaven on earth, being put here to relieve suffering, the fertility blessings of Oshun, digging into our divine purpose, being the holiest expression of ourselves, pacing ourselves and so much more. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message
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