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. visit us @ endoftheworldshow.org
Episodes
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 theater, opera, film, dance, installat...
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 guides us to reconsider how we...
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 CELEBRATORY EXPLOSION" and 1-minut...
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're both right, what's up th...
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.
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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, an initiative that asks a simple ye...
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 experience across a gamut of commu...
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 emerged, where its accretion of coll...
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 ideate, experiment with genre, and fi...
Originally recorded on IG live, adrienne and her friend, the author, activist and artist Sonya Renee Taylor process being a survivor in these times.
Loving shouts to Tarana Burke for all the portal opening and Amanda Doyle for clear history sharing.
Let it make us seeds of love, let us hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil.
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The sisters are THRILLED to build with their dear friend, Morgan Bassichis. Morgan is a comedian, musician, Anti-Zionist activist and writer who has been called “a tall child or, well, a big bird” by The Nation and “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker. Their show, Can I Be Frank? just won an Obie!
The trio discuss finding the funny in the sad and tragic, the life of a Jewish artist fighting for Palestine, being brought up in t...
The sisters are THRILLED to welcome poet, Zen master and Indigenous Hawaiian leader Roshi Norma Wong back to the show! Her new book is part story-poem-instruction manual. It's called Who We Are Becoming Matters and is now available wherever books are sold! CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT
AN INDIE BOOKSELLER.
In this conversation they discuss Minneapolis, Norma's cool hand clasp model to show how our minds and feelings can sync ...
adrienne and Autumn convened in Minneapolis at the end of January for a live taping of the show at The Great Northern Winter Festival. Every year The Great Northern puts on a winter festival that celebrates our coldest season as a time to gather, create, and connect. It’s an open invitation to engage with the outdoors, experience art and culture, and embrace winter, together
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Autumn was recently in conversation with Dr. Chera Reid and Dr. Trinel Torian on their wonderful podcast, Becoming the Vision where they invite visionaries from the field of philanthropy and beyond who believe and practice the idea that we must change ourselves in order to change the world. Subscribe to Becoming the Vision wherever you listen to HTS.
In this episode they talk through Autumn's creative origin story and then g...
The sisters are ecstatic to welcome Nnenna and Pierce Freelon to the show.
Nnenna is a GRAMMY nominated jazz singer, storyteller and grief sojourner. Her latest album is Beneath the Skin. Her new book is Beneath the Skin of Sorrow: Improvisations on Loss.
Nneena’s son Pierce is a GRAMMY nominated artist, picture book author and podcaster. His GRAMMY nominated children’s music albums AnceStars (2023) and Black to the Future (2021) ha...
The sisters describe how and why they build altars for creation and detail recalibrated writing nooks, work laptops, writing in the tub and car, vision boards, doodles for the self and bringing their creative and familial ancestors into the mix.
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The sisters nerd out on project (and self!) management, spreadsheets, procrastination, saving your work and ensuring you have adequate support for the art you're making.
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Autumn lives, works and organizes in Minneapolis, where, for over 6 weeks, ICE has escalated its tactics in abducting people from their home. adrienne asks her what's happening on the ground right now and how YOU can get involved.
https://defend612.com/
https://unidos-mn.org/
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Another year, another fractal! Autumn and adrienne revel in the majesty their respective weirdness in the artistic process and how improvisation and structure co-mingle.
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Another fractal! The sisters dive into the intricacies of storyboarding and structuring in their writing process and how visual mapping can aid in organizing thoughts and ideas. Also, how to balance structure vs. chaos.
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