
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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Sep 7, 2021 • 23min
We Not Ready
The sisters drop in with an update on the second half of the season, and a moment of celebration.
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Jun 24, 2021 • 1h 37min
Sibling Miniseries #5: Makani and Robin
In this episode, the Brown Sisters had the honor of interviewing two siblings who are giants of the social justice movement: Makani Themba and Robin D.G. Kelley. Makani is an organizer and movement strategist, who recently stepped into co-leadership of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Robin is a historian, scholar of African American history and struggle, and author of Race Rebels, among many other titles. We enter their sweet story of solidarity and sibling love, which they are telling for the very first time.
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Jun 10, 2021 • 1h 17min
Sibling Miniseries #4: Una and Michi
The Brown Sisters continue the Sibling Miniseries with pleasure and joy mavens Una and Michi Osato, sister performer artist healers who teach burlesque for liberation. We enter their sibling reverie and leave changed and transformed.
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May 30, 2021 • 1h 15min
Sibling Miniseries #3: Cole and Karissa
From land ownership to Black liberation to father loss to love upgrades, Karissa Lewis and Cole B.
(Transcript is on its way - sorry for the delay!)
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In Conversation: Lynell George and adrienne maree brown on Octavia E. Butler
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May 14, 2021 • 1h 11min
Sibling Miniseries #2: Naina and Navina Khanna
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 compelling, and they give us powerful insight on what's unfolding in their homeland of India - see ways to get involved below (compiled/curated by DiasporaCo.)
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1. Athrout x Kashmir Box: providing daily rations AND medical supplies to Kashmir that is systematically underfunded and neglected, and currently has a ban on most NGOs ability to receive foreign funds. Athrout has found a fantastic workaround in a time of dire need.
https://www.kashmirbox.com/collections/kashmirfightscovid
2. Parivar Bay Area: partnering with on-the-ground partners across 26 locations 8 states to bring health kits and food to the Trans community - this
https://gofund.me/6c10dd07
3. Adventures Without Boundaries Foundation: organising vaccination access and support for folks with disabilities across Mumbai
https://gocrowdera.com/c/2kOLVRhc
4. People for Change: battling hunger through daily rations to the trans community and sex workers in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Sex workers are battling a complete loss of income, high HIV rates that increase susceptibility to the virus, and so many other challenges right now, these are folks we really want to rally for!
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-people-for-change
5. Khaana Chahiye: distributing meals to the most vulnerable in the city of Mumbai. Has distributed 60,000 meals so far in this phase of the lockdown.
https://fundraisers.giveindia.org/fundraisers/khaanachahiye-mumbai-is-battling-hunger-along-with-covid-19-again
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Apr 29, 2021 • 1h 16min
Sibling Miniseries #1: Naima and Leah
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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Apr 15, 2021 • 1h 19min
One Drop: A Conversation with Yaba Blay
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 scholar-activist Yaba Blay, who created a gorgeous photo book project called One Drop, exploring the way historical definitions of blackness shape contemporary racial identity and experience.
TRANSCRIPT: - https://www.dropbox.com/s/zhl8qevg0cc9sof/HTS_One%20Drop_%20A%20Conversation%20with%20Yaba%20Blay.pdf?dl=0
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Apr 8, 2021 • 1h 23min
Organizers in Space: What Movement Organizing & Space Exploration Can Learn From One Another
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 strategist for progressive campaigns along with The Movement School and the Forge.
You can watch the entire event HERE.
Building a more just, reflective democracy and landing a spacecraft on another planet are both epic, deeply collective human endeavors - and practitioners of both crafts faced huge tests in 2020 and 2021. In the midst of a global pandemic, a reckoning around white supremacist violence, racialized capitalism, and what it means to have a truly reflective democracy - what can movement organizing and space exploration teach each other right now? With the recent successful Mars Perseverance Mission Landing as a jumping-off point, and pulling from some of the ideas of Octavia Butler, the visionary writer and now the namesake of the official landing site on Mars, we discuss what these crafts have in common.”
We talk about predictable emergencies, radical imagination, and contingency planning; about creating structures that unearth collective genius, to do things that may have not been done before; about scalability, effective metric-setting, and competing priorities; about holding on to a sense of awe, in the face of challenges and unknowabilities, and about what it means to, as JPL’s slogan says, “Dare Mighty Things”.“
Anoa Changa moderates this amazing conversation featuring Cj Giovingo and Autumn Brown. CJ is an organizer-turned-rocket-scientist and Jet Propulsion Lab systems engineer, who served as NASA/JPL’s Entry, Descent and Landing Activity Lead for Perseverance.
TRANSCRIPT: - https://www.dropbox.com/s/jz01r9ntltvdaqv/HTS_Organizers%20in%20Space.pdf?dl=0
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Apr 5, 2021 • 1h 15min
Fifth Season
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 guide interviews this season. Welcome back listeners!Also, read The Fifth Season!
TRANSCRIPT: - https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xutc443yhyfqbn/HTS_Fifth%20Season.pdf?dl=0
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Mar 11, 2021 • 23min
Centering at the End of the World
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 journey with generative somatics, learning about healing trauma in and through the body. One key practice in somatics is centering, having a center within ourselves to which we can continuously return and from which we can embody and shape the world and relationships and healing we need.
TRANSCRIPT: - https://www.dropbox.com/s/dummhmqa5rtqdw2/HTS_Centering%20at%20the%20End%20of%20the%20World.pdf?dl=0
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