How to Survive the End of the World
Episodes
Live Show, U of M
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hopefully this is better late than never. The sound quality on this show wasn't up to @muzachary's standards, but the cost/benefit analysis of having ...
Leaving Michael Jackson?
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Autumn and adrienne talk with DJs, @iamrimarkable, @djkuttinkandi, and @larumorosa about Michael Jackson in the wake of the Leaving Neverland document...
Is Hodor the Real Hero of GOT? (Let Them Eat Spoilers)
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
adrienne and Autumn discuss the highs and lows, surprises and disappointments, and the visionary fashion, of the final season of Game of Thrones. mus...
Browns at Brown: A Live Show
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Brown sisters, live at Brown University, with a special guest and lots of feelings. Happy Mother's Day to all who mother! music by Mother Cyborg ...
A Spoilerific Dive Into NK Jemisin's Apocalypse
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Brown Sisters read NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy and remembered they knew her and could maybe maybe get a real conversation. Here, they gush a...
Laurence McKeown, Prisoner to Playwright
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laurence McKeown was our gracious host and patient teacher in Northern Ireland - here he tells some of his epic awesome story from teenager to IRA rev...
An Uneasy Peace
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Autumn and adrienne share stories from their visionary fiction journey through Northern Ireland, what they learned from the legacy of the conflict, an...
Disability Justice for the Apocalypse: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha Gets Us Together
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Prolific writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha is a queer disabled femme writer, organizer, performance artist and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lank...
Wait, it's 2019!
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Brown sisters look ahead at 2019 with dreams of glory. music by Mother Cyborg and Tunde Olaniran and the song, "True Love" written by Michaela Ha...
The Practice of Freedom: A Conversation with Siwatu-Salama Ra and Rhonda Anderson
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We are humbled and honored to speak with Siwatu-Salama Ra, an environmental activist based in Detroit who was wrongfully imprisoned while pregnant, an...
Awww Shucks: How Do We Prepare for Climate Apocalypse?
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our first advice column! Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/ @e...
The Practices We Need: #metoo and Transformative Justice Part 2
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today the Brown sisters talk with transformative justice practitioner Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) and get our minds blown with frameworks and breakt...
Elections in End Times #BlackNovember
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join the Brown sisters for a conversation with Three Point Strategies' Jessica Byrd and Kayla Reed. We cover basically everything we need to know abou...
Apocalypse Survival Skills #1: Grow and Preserve
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our resident inexpert gardener, Autumn, talks us through the trials of garden management and the glory of food preservation. Music b...
The Apocalypse We Live In : State Violence and Repression
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a difficult conversation about how we sustain movements under state violence and repression. Music by Tunde Olaniran (his new album, "Str...
Dr. Ford's Dignity
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We must define our own victories in this daunting political climate. Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg - www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow e...
The Impossible Things About Us
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the brown sisters explore the impossible things about us, and how getting in right relationship with ourselves, our vulnerability, an...
Black Love: A Day at the Museum
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Autumn and adrienne are back from their summer break. In this episode, the Brown sisters share their powerful experience at the National Museum of Afr...
And We Out!
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
adrienne and Autumn check in around summer plans. (We're taking July and August off and will be back at it come September.) www.patreon.com/Endofthe...
How to Survive Live in Detroit
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every year in June, social justice organizers, artists, and media makers from around the country (and beyond) gather in Detroit for the Allied Media C...
The Apocalypse We Need: #metoo and Transformative Justice Part 1
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the first in a series of conversations about #metoo and the apocalypse of patriarchy and rape culture. In this first conversation, adr...
Your People Will Find You: The Octavia Butler Legacy Network
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
In the Pattern
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ou...
Reshaping Apocalypse
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, adrienne interviews Autumn about apocalypse in the popular imagination, the myths and realities of disasters and their aftermath, and...
4/20 SPECIAL: The People's Peanut Butter
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Get high with amb for 4ty minutes and 20 seconds (4/20 special). Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.or...
Taking Root Amongst the Stars with Chani Nicholas
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"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, Cha...
Future Economics Part 1: The Money Talk
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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-go...
There’s a New World Comin’ with Toshi Reagon
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Wisdom Body
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 survi...
44 Minutes on Wakanda
24 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Shitting Our Pants
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Grieving, Loving Ursula Le Guin
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Star Wars: A Spoiler Extravaganza
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
A Breathing Chorus with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
20 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"To get along with God, consider the consequences of your behavior." - Octavia Butler, Earthseed Verses We are so excited to bring to you a conversat...
Decolonize the Body
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Completion Matters
05 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"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 stren...
Let the Ancestors Speak
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We want you to know more about who we are. We thought one way to do that is to open a window on to our creative practices of writing fiction, which le...
God is Change
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the pilot season of How to Survive the End of the World. This first season is us learning what this show wants and needs to be, and giving ...
Trailer: This is how to survive the end of the world
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How to Survive the End of the World is a new podcast hosted by sisters Autumn and adrienne maree brown. The Brown Sisters are learning from the apoca...