How to Survive the End of the World

"The act of writing itself was a kind of therapy." - Octavia Butler https://www.patreon.com/oeblegacy The Brown sisters sat down with the brilliant team at the Octavia E Butler Legacy Network to learn about their Octavia scholarship, digging into Octavia's papers at the Huntington Library, weaving the pattern, and upcoming ways to engage your Octavia love. Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

"When her enemies came to kill her, she knew more about surviving than they did about killing." - Octavia Butler, Wild Seed The Brown sisters geek out over Octavia Butler's Patternist series, finding lessons and practices around technology, telepathy, relationships, morality and how novels lead to each other. Spoilers! Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

In this episode, adrienne interviews Autumn about apocalypse in the popular imagination, the myths and realities of disasters and their aftermath, and shaping a family towards survival, cooperation, and hospitality. Music from Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

Get high with amb for 4ty minutes and 20 seconds (4/20 special). Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

"Our destiny is to take root amongst the stars." - Octavia Butler The Brown sisters go behind the night sky with one of our favorite astrologers, Chani Nicholas. We reflect on how to relate to and draw upon astrology as we move through change, relationship and movement building. http://chaninicholas.com/ Music from Mother Cyborg - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

For this episode, Autumn and adrienne peel back the layers of story, assumption and shame around class, debt and money. This is the first of an on-going series that will look at post apocalyptic economics. Additional music from Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

In today’s episode, 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 caught Toshi in the midst of the New York premiere of the opera, and we talked with her about turning earthseed into song, lessons from her mother, and the necessity of creative practice. https://www.parableopera.com/ https://toshireagon.com/ Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

In this episode the Brown sisters explore their shared practice of tarot reading, from what it is, to how they use it, to what it has to do with survival and justice. Episode includes 2018 readings! Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

The Brown sisters went to Wakanda! Afterwards we recorded 44 minutes of gushing, SPOILERIFIC processing of the movie! Why 44? Because that's how much room we had on our SD card, and Shuri wasn't there to help us. Come, listen to us cover mad topics breathlessly! - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC - Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions

The Brown Sisters are back! In our kickoff of Season 2, we share our gratitude and lessons from the pilot season, teasers of what is coming your way this year, and let you in on the way this podcast is transforming our sistership. - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC - Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions

Writer Ursula K. Le Guin died last week. She was 88. adrienne reflects on her relationship with the god, the writer, the thinker, the mother. (with an excerpt from Ursula K. Le Guin accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 65th National Book Awards on November 19, 2014). endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC - Music by Blue Dot Sessions

Bonus Episode! Autumn and adrienne went to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi and couldn't let the year end with a somewhat tipsy spoiler extravaganza on this radical cultural offering. Join them in their parents basement AFTER seeing the movie. - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC - Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions

"To get along with God, consider the consequences of your behavior." - Octavia Butler, Earthseed Verses We are so excited to bring to you a conversation with our amazing comrade, our inspirational thought-leader, Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Alexis is a prolific writer, collage artist, lover and one of the black feminist thinkers we look to most to guide our own thinking and processes. Her latest opus is M Archive: After the End of the World. Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

We are Earthseed. We are flesh—self aware, questing, problem-solving flesh. We are that aspect of Earthlife best able to shape God knowingly. We are Earthlife maturing, Earthlife preparing to fall away from the parent world. We are Earthlife preparing to take root in new ground, Earthlife fulfilling its purpose, its promise, its Destiny. - Octavia Butler, Earthseed verses Our bodies, right now at this moment are both colonizers on this planet and our bodies are also colonized spaces on this planet. In this episode we get into talking about why getting in a right relationship with our bodies is key to getting in right relationship with the planet. Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

"To survive, let the past teach you. Past customs, struggles, leaders and thinkers. Let these help you. Let them inspire you, warn you, give you strength. But beware, God is change. Past is past. What was cannot come again. To survive, know the past, let it touch you, then let the past go." - Octavia Butler, Earthseed When we talk about the end of the world, we need to think about what is ending. This episode is about exploring endings large and small. Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions - https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/ https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow