How to Survive the End of the World

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 :...

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 bo...

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 Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cy...

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...

The Brown sisters give each other permission to rest, reflect on lessons and appreciations for the year, and ask for feedback! Note : When they recorded this episode, the sisters thought they were finishing early, not realizing that they were ahead of recording schedule and had the year done. So without any additional labor after recording this episode, they made it thru the full season. In case y...

The sisters share a bit of their interwoven and distinct race stories as daughters of an interracial love story. TRANSCRIPT : - https://www.dropbox.com/s/fl1gsitoi8rt2iq/HTS_Tip%20of%20the%20Iceberg.pdf?dl=0 Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg  HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow PEEP us on IG https://www.instagram.com/endofthew...

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 and saving what we love. note: adrienne critiques the term 'people of color' in this episode, and to be clear, she is speaking not of the phrase in its original purpose of solidarity, but of the collapsing us...

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 about spells that backfire, mycelia as metaphor for life force, and of course, Stevie Nicks. TRANSCRIPT : - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecm506ahklfhjmf/HTS_To%20Witch%20or%20Not%20to%20Witch.pdf?dl=0 Musi...

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 critique. Look to @wejointhefrontline , @choosedemocracy , @blackdirectaction , @theruckussociety , @ip3action , @wejointhefrontline , @visionchangewin . Protect yourselves materially, emotionally and spiritually....

Today we are joined by two of the most brilliant humans I know to debrief this election so far. Kat Aaro n (@kataaron), podcast producer for Octavia's Parables, power mom, as well as voter engagement volunteer extraordinaire. Our other guest is University of Delaware professor Janine de Novais , one of adrienne's favorite race thinkers.  TRANSCRIPT - https://www.dropbox.com/s/15ip7hv23zslqtg/...

In today’s episode, a re-run from last year, 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 Octavia E. Butler. We talked with her about turning earthseed into song, lessons from her mother, and the necessity of creative practice. In this episode Toshi makes it clear and pla...

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 warriors for justice - 313 Liberation Zone's PG Watkins (ultimate_paygee) and Detroit Justice Center's Amanda Alexander (@A_S_Alexander). We discuss visions, abolition, and the unique ground that Detroit is for practicing our beliefs. TRANSCRIPT -https:/...

We are reposting this episode to help you prepare for and understand the ways to engage electoral politics. We are also committing this week to honoring the indigenous peoples of the lands we live on in future intros. The Brown Sisters sit down with the brilliant Charlene Carruthers (@CharleneCarruthers), author of Unapologetic and founder of the Chicago Center for Leadership and Transformation, t...

For this week's episode, Autumn and adrienne sit down with Ejeris Dixon (@ejeris) and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ( @brownstargirl), the editors of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement . We discuss book touring, their journeys to this work, and transformative justice in this time. TRANSCRIPT - https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vm1kk16nfrsbkt/HTS_Beyond%20S...

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 transition and turning. We call in special guest Malkia Devich Cyril (@culturejedi) to help us learn to hold grief. TRANSCRIPT - https://www.dropbox.com/s/5yxbqdm4sdczl4t/HTS_Being%20with%20Terror%20.pdf?dl=0 HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT...

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 we need to know about engaging in the electoral process, especially this corrupt age, with our eyes on freedom. https://actionstl.org/ https://www.threepointstrategies.org/ TRANSCRIPT - https://www.dropbox....

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 time, this podcast. They introduce new structures and segments for the coming season, including the Flume of Rage , Top Culture and more. TRANSCRIPT : - https://www.dropbox.com/s/efkisqka5o2quwz/HTS%20-%20True...

Before we come back with a full fall slate of episodes, we want to share this episode of Your Attention Please from Hulu and IHeartRadio. In 2019, Tomi Adeyemi followed up her best-selling debut novel,  Children of Blood and Bone , with another installment in the Legacy of Orïsha series,  Children of Virtue and Vengeance . Readers have fallen in love with Adeyemi's stories, which are mag...

adrienne and Autumn were recipients of Auburn Seminary’s 2020 Lives of Commitment Award , which celebrates women of moral courage. This episode is an audio recording of the Auburn Conversation, a live event bringing the honorees together to discuss how we use our power to build liberated futures. This conversation is moderated by Minister Candace Simpson, and features honorees Autumn Brown, gina B...

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 2020 Allied Media Conference . Their giddy, love-filled conversation spans the gamut from how we sit with hard astrology, to how we work with and shape our collective purpose using the queer feminist technology of the stars...

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 the other on listening for white people. We hope it is of use. 1) A Word for White People + Resources http://adriennemareebrown.net/2020/06/28/a-word-for-white-people-in-two-parts/ https://docs.google.com/...

As our summer break continues, we're so excited to feature an episode from our friends at the Fortification podcast.  Future: Spiritual and political mandates for our future The conversation began with these questions: Where is this present moment taking us? What can we radically imagine for our future survival knowing what we know now? In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas become im...

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 , hosted by Sarah Cargill , to give us some sense of what we're facing and what we are feeling. SUBSCRIBE to Tarot for the End of Times, wherever you listen to pods.  --- The Emperor's sacred fire has the capacity to assist in performing great act...

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. SUBSCRIBE TO OCTAVIA'S PARABLES WHEREVER YOU LISTEN TO PODCASTS. Support the show.

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 process of creating the miniseries. And we discuss the incredible transformation unfolding in this very moment, from the epicenter of Minneapolis outward across the globe. Music by Tunde Olaniran , Chad Cr...