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2017/11/07
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2026/11/04
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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
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Temper is a Template for Keeping Our Souls Intact
2026/11/04
We are so back!
adrienne and Autumn kick off season 10 with a long-overdue sisterly catch-up and then hey go deep on Autumn's new book, Temper, out November 10th. YOU CAN PRE-ORDER NOW.
Here's what the luminaries are saying about Temper.
"Every page in Temper sizzles with ancient truth and brand new, desperately needed hope. The world is on fire—it’s true. Temper is our emergency exit.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed“Temper is a template for keeping our souls intact while we navigate all that this moment serves up and all that is to come. Autumn Brown’s wisdom and dedication to this work shines through in every page.”—Chani Nicholas, New York Times bestselling author of You Were Born for This“Temper is challenging and heartbreaking, mystical and invitational, ancestral and glorious.”—Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother’s Hands
“Autumn Brown is the Zen Harriet Tubman, and this book is our North Star. We learn that getting free is much harder than we think yet more possible than we imagine.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
“In this moment of polycrisis, the medicine that is this book reminds us that if we are lost, then the antidote is to remember that we have always been free, even in an unfree world.”—Lama Rod Owens, author of The New Saints“Listening to what the body has to teach, to the power of Black Feminist resistance and fugitivity, to the wisdom of the land and Indigenous knowledge, to the wisdom held in martial arts, and to her experiences in supporting groups to come closer to their shared liberation, Autumn Brown offers frameworks, reflections, and practice that lift up both the softness and the hard edges of being free.”—Susan Raffo, author of Liberated to the Bone
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Join Autumn's Fortification Cohort
2026/06/29
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 dissociation and collapse.
Fugitivity is more than escape. It is making ourselves powerful, both individually and collectively. It is remembering a much longer timeline for our freedom fight, and holding connection to that reality no matter the conditions around us. It is a process of conditioning the soul for the righteous fight.This program is for you if:
You want to practice freedom in your own life, but you are not sure how.You have an existing practice for self-regulation and have already done some of your own healing work. You have a working understanding of trauma, but you find the victim/oppressor dichotomy to be limiting and overly simplistic. You want an updated framework for understanding conditions as they are. You want to make change in the world, but struggle to turn your values and wisdom into action. You desire to work in multiracial and multi-class formation using black feminist principles, without throwing anyone away.Head to Autumn's website for more information about the cohort: www.iambrown.org/fortificationHere is the direct link to the application: https://forms.gle/Zu4Cw8Ee7d1XCBJV8
Go Straight to the Most Uncomfortable Stuff and Bring That Out: Autumn and adrienne Serve Up a Digestif to Their Art as Solidarity Season
2026/06/19
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.
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Body as Homeland with Leila Awadallah
2026/06/12
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 relationships to land / place / peoples, rooted in the context of her own skin as a body and soul that holds indigenous Palestinian, Arab-American, SWANA, Sicilian and mixed Mediterranean worlds and ways. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of the Body Watani (body-as-homeland) dance project and practice in collaboration with Noelle Awadallah, Co-Artistic Director.
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How to Remember a Forgotten Paradise with Charlotte Brathwaite and Malick Welli
2026/06/05
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, installation, and site-specific performance, Brathwaite creates cross-disciplinary projects that bring narrative, sound, movement, and space into close relationship. Her genre-defying practice centers the histories, realities, and imagined futures of communities that have been historically excluded, engaging questions of power, race, social justice, and collective memory.
Malick is a Senegalese visual artist who lives and works in Dakar. His work lies at the intersection of fine art, photography and installation. His work has recently been shown at the National Museum of World Cultures in Leiden, Netherlands, and at the Chanel Fashion house’s 19M gallery. Welli is interested in religion, spirituality, power dynamics and how they shape visual culture. His work has been exhibited at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (USA); Art X Lagos ( Nigeria) EXPO CHGO (USA); Cairo Biennial (Egypt); AKAA (Also Known As Africa, France), among others. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Chazen Museum of Art (USA).
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Blackness is the Radical Incompleteness of the World with Báyò Akómoláfé
2026/05/29
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 relate to the world—and to internalize the fact that earth and all of nature are alive, relating to us. Selah is an ancient Indigenous orientation, poured through Báyò’s trickster poetry to make for a fresh agitation.”
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It's All Holy and it's All Ridiculous with The Bengsons
2026/05/22
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-minute critic called "One of the most TRANSCENDENT EVENINGS OF THEATER you’ll see this year.”
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Landscapes of Reactivity, an Epic Ask Us Anything!
2026/04/25
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 the “theologian” part of Autumn’s bio, favorite facilitation books, how they've brought forth their most authentic and most helpful selves, finding a discipline or practice to receive lineage not connected to earning money (like aikido for Autumn) and what's bringing the sisters joy and light in these dark times!
LINKS
-PRE-ORDER AUTUMN'S NEW BOOK!
-Holding Change
-Shit Facilitators Say
Black Feminist Futures-The Embodiment Institute-Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity
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Hot and Vibrant for the Apocalypse with Denée Benton
2026/04/17
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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If hope is a muscle, then how do I build it?
2026/04/10
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 yet radical question: What if we wrote stories not about what we fear but about what we hope to create? The discussion dives into how imagination connects with responsibility, how storytelling serves as a profound form of spiritual leadership, and why envisioning a new reality is essential for climate justice.
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Resources & Concepts Mentioned:
Thrutopia: Coined by philosopher Rupert Read and popularized by author Manda Scott through the Thrutopia Masterclass, a Thrutopian narrative threads the needle between utopia and dystopia. It focuses on writing grounded, plausible, and inspiring route maps that show exactly how we navigate through our current struggles to reach a future we’d be proud to leave behind.
Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler: Autumn quotes the legendary science fiction author—who was the first African American woman to reach mainstream success in the genre—and her collection Bloodchild and Other Stories, reflecting on how sci-fi stimulates necessary imagination and creativity.
North Woods by Daniel Mason: A novel mentioned by Nicole Diroff from The BTS Center’s Summer Fiction Book Club, highlighting how fiction can make the natural landscape the main character.
Humans of New York: The iconic photoblog that Tory credits with changing his perspective early in his career, teaching him the unparalleled power of human-centric storytelling over dry statistics.
Visionary Fiction: A framework of world-building and storytelling that Autumn Brown and her sister use in their writing retreats, which actively wrestles with the sacred and reclaims spiritual practices.
Dream Seeds: A term favored by Grist and Imagine 2200 to describe stories that plant concrete, hopeful visions of how society could be organized completely differently.
Eve Mosher & Creating Your Story of Tomorrow: An adult education facilitator guide and video created by renowned environmental artist Eve Mosher, available on the BTS Center’s Leadership Commons.
“Seven Sisters” by Susan Kaye Quinn; 3rd place winner of the 2022 Imagine 2200 contest.
The Case of the Missing Lake by Colby Devitt; published in November 2025 by Imagine 2200.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/torystephens
Bluesky: @torystephens.bsky.social
Imagine 2200 (Grist): About Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction
More from Tory: Shaping the Future Through Climate Fiction (Podcast Interview)
Read the Collections:
Thank Yous: We want to extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who made this episode possible:
Tory Stephens, for sharing his incredible vision, imagination, and wisdom with us.
Peterson Toscano, producer of Climate Changed, for producing this episode and for providing the wonderful grounding for this episode.
The BTS Center team, for your ongoing support and for providing the resources and platform that make this podcast possible.
A podcast by The BTS Center exploring some of the most pressing questions about faith, life, and climate change.
Produced by Peterson Toscano, the podcast features acclaimed guests such as Brian McLaren, Elizabeth Rush, Craig Santos Perez, and many more.
New Life and Joy, Death and Grief, Absolute Bewilderment and Confusion with Kaji Reyes and Sendolo Diaminah
2026/04/03
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 community organizing issues and spent seven years at Durham for All. Among other projects, he currently manages the land and animals of a budding community project called Owl Song.
Sendolo is the Co-Director of The Carolina Federation, where s/he works building governing power for working people and communities of color in North Carolina. S/he is a strategist with over 15 years of experience in community and electoral organizing, as well as experience winning and holding elected office.
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A Flirtation with Capitalism with Jenn Kidwell and Brandon Kazen-Maddox
2026/03/27
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 collaborators came from, mirror as metaphor and set-piece, the artistry of ASL and why everyone should learn it and how this striking work of art asks audiences to literally give Jenn money!
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Write The Next World With Us
2026/03/20
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 find a writing voice that creates more possibilities for our collective future, all while exploring the beautiful Connemara countryside and eating outstanding food.
The event is rooted in the lineages of visionary and speculative fiction and Black Feminist Praxis.
The next one is coming up JULY 5TH - JULY 10TH. APPLY HERE!
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Listen to WRITING THE NEXT WORLD: the album by duns
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Max's Egg Salad Recipe!
6 eggs
40 gm celery, diced
20 gm pickles, diced
60 gm mayo
30 gm red onion, diced
2 Tbsp parsley, finely chopped
2 scallions, sliced
Pinch MSG
plenty of salt and pepper
1. Bring pot of water to a boil. Add eggs and start a 10 minute timer, keep eggs at a low boil the entire time.
2. After 10 minute timer goes off, place eggs in ice bath until cool.
3. Chop eggs or break up with gloved hands.
4. Mix with remaining ingredients, adjust seasoning to taste.
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Moving Toward the Horizon of Love Together with Sonya Renee Taylor
2026/03/06
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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Building a Movement Full of Doors and Windows with Morgan Bassichis
2026/02/27
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 the cult of 'it's complicated', the clarity of doing what we can to disentangle Judaism and Zionism, tapping into compassion, how haters can't make good art, shared power vs. siloed power and the precipice of something big happening in OUR lifetime.
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hiamiapia 2026/09/29
my fav podcast ever
amb and Autumn are just full of so much brilliance, love, wisdom, and magic, and it really comes through!!! deeply grounding and inspiring, thank u fo...
Flakey226 2026/08/11
Amazing podcast!
Love this podcast so much. The hosts and guests are so insightful, and it will leave you feeling replenished in a world that can feel impossible
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Shurpas 2026/03/15
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The clarity, the thoughtfulness, the hope, the compassion this duo brings is abundant. Thank you for your work and for sharing it with the world. A m...
Natalierattlesnake 2026/03/04
This is the map!
I cannot praise this podcast enough! It is the antidote to the dystopia many of us foresee. They are prefiguring our way out of the present system by ...
ED8 2026/02/23
Deep and wise and heartful
This show helps me regain sanity with its fearless unveiling, wisdom, humor, love, and candor. It’s ahead of its time.
essa12dance 2026/02/13
So real and insightful
I love this podcast so much. I find it… Thoughtful, authentic, joyful, loving, responsable, enormously relevant to what’s going on in the world while ...
EB Mudd 2026/02/03
So alive and supportive
This show is so positive and hopeful and very real.
K8teeDid 2026/01/30
Soul food
Offering light, during tough times.
Herspiral 2026/01/30
How can I forget?
Every once and awhile I somehow forget this podcast exists. I don’t know how I could forget. It’s superbly warm, wise, cheeky, creative, and informati...
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