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How to Survive the End of the World

How to Survive the End of the World

How to Survive the End of the World 242 Episodes Jun 29, 2026

Join Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown, two sisters who share many identities as writers, activists, facilitators, and inheritors of multiracial diasporic lineages, as they explore the practices needed to move through endings and come out whole. This podcast delves into community survival strategies and resilience in the face of collapse.

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Join Autumn's Fortification Cohort Jun 29, 2026 00:04:20 Beloved survivor, if you are feeling depleted, defeated, lost and confused, we here at the show see you and feel you and invite you to apply to sister Autumn's fall program, The Fortification Cohort. It's an 8-week process of collective and self study, where we learn how to practice fugitivity, and in so doing, map a new internal landscape defined by agency and courage, instead of dissocia
Go Straight to the Most Uncomfortable Stuff and Bring That Out: Autumn and adrienne Serve Up a Digestif to Their Art as Solidarity Season Jun 19, 2026 00:32:36 The sisters wrap up their Art as Solidarity season with some hopeful reflections. They discuss their creative processes and the season's highlights including the centrality of art in resistance movements in Minneapolis, partnerships and collaborations among artists and the role of art in processing grief, trauma, and hope. And then they plant seeds for next season.---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TRAN
Body as Homeland with Leila Awadallah Jun 12, 2026 01:06:09 Since Autumn first met Leila Awadallah at her aikido dojo, she's wanted to have her on the show. We are blessed to learn Leila's story on our penultimate episode of our art as solidarity season!Leila Awadallah (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and film wanderer based between Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce and Beirut, Lebanon. Her research in dance centers movement that activates relation
How to Remember a Forgotten Paradise with Charlotte Brathwaite and Malick Welli Jun 5, 2026 01:03:51 The sisters are elated to dialogue with two revolutionary artists, Charlotte Brathwaite and Malick Welli. They share their love for art and one another and how their practices intersect with community, history, and transformation.Charlotte is an award-winning artist, creative director, and theater director whose work moves across performance, spectacle, and immersive experience. Working across the
Blackness is the Radical Incompleteness of the World with Báyò Akómoláfé May 29, 2026 01:01:49 The sisters are ecstatic for this long overdue convo with Báyò Akómoláfé, Chief Curator of The Emergence Network, a speaker, author, fugitive neo-materialist com-post-activist public intellectual and Yoruba poet.Bayo's new book is Selah, about which adrienne writes, "Báyò Akómoláfé is a philosopher who is pushing us to think outside of every narrative we take for granted. In this text, he
It's All Holy and it's All Ridiculous with The Bengsons May 22, 2026 01:01:53 Abigail and Shaun Bengson are a married composing and performing duo raising two children in NYC and Vermont. Abigail was previously on the show in 2023 during our Witch Season. In this raucous and tender convo, The Bengsons trace the origins of their love and their most recent musical, My Joy is Heavy (watch an excerpt on Fallon!), which the New York Theatre Guide called "A MIND-BLOWING CELE
Landscapes of Reactivity, an Epic Ask Us Anything! Apr 25, 2026 01:12:18 Hey hey hey, it's a sister-sister AMA! Today on the show, adrienne and Autumn answer questions from our Patreon supporters. To access exclusive content and ask your own questions for future AMA episodes, become a BELOVED SURVIVOR TODAY! On this episode the sister's address questions that touch on the intersection of their sisterhood, how they engage in conflict, what happens when they'
Hot and Vibrant for the Apocalypse with Denée Benton Apr 17, 2026 01:00:21 Denée Benton (Eliza Hamilton in Hamilton! Cinderella in Into the Woods! Peggy Scott on The Gilded Age!) joins the sisters Brown to explore how creative work can serve social movements, the importance of community rituals, the evolving role of celebrity in activism, the strategic importance of joy, feeling panicked less and feeling vibrant more.--⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TRANSCRIPT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠---⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
If hope is a muscle, then how do I build it? Apr 10, 2026 00:30:32 Autumn is hosting another show and you're gonna love it! In the Season Four premiere of the Climate Changed podcast, Autumn talks with Tory Stephens, a storyteller, cultural worker, and climate justice advocate.They explore the transformative power of climate fiction and its role in helping us envision the future. Tory discusses his groundbreaking work at Grist, where he founded Imagine 2200,
New Life and Joy, Death and Grief, Absolute Bewilderment and Confusion with Kaji Reyes and Sendolo Diaminah Apr 3, 2026 01:01:05 adrienne and Autumn are thrilled to explore the intersection of spirit, ritual and movement organizing with dear friends of the show, Kaji Reyes and Sendolo Diaminah. The conversation touches on creativity and art in ritual and ceremony, the role of geography and land in spiritual work and the challenge and potential of balancing political activism with ritual practice.Kaji has over two decades of
A Flirtation with Capitalism with Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox Mar 27, 2026 01:08:18 The sisters are ecstatic to welcome OBIE Award-winning artist Jenn Kidwell and ASL artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox to discuss “we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism,” a play which invites "you to roll in the pigsty of American consumerism." The New Yorker calls Kidwell "a comic genius in a leopard-print bra and puffball coat."In this episode, we learn how the play emerg
Write The Next World With Us Mar 20, 2026 01:06:02 adrienne and Autumn are joined by Kate McCabe (Founder and Executive Director of Bog & Thunder), Max Sussman (Culinary Director of Bog & Thunder) and Dwight Dunston (facilitator, hip-hop artist, educator, and activist) to chronicle and celebrate their majestic time on a private island in the wilds of West Cork for a writing workshop unlike any other. Writing the Next World is a space to id

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