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How to Survive the End of the World

A Breathing Chorus with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

How to Survive the End of the World

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

"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

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Harriet Tubman said my people are free in the middle of slavery. I'm saying that. We're saying that together. We have access to more than just the power of our individual lives, more

0:19.6

than just the power of what linear facts we think have made up our day.

0:24.4

We actually have access to incredible power and power that people have used to do things that

0:30.9

are miraculous.

0:33.2

I'm

0:34.7

miraculous.

0:38.7

I'm Autumn Brown.

0:42.1

I'm Adem Brown. And I'm Autumn Brown and I'm Adrian Marie Brown and this is how to survive the end of the world

0:49.1

our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.

0:57.0

In today's episode we are so excited!

1:00.0

So excited!

1:02.0

So excited to bring to you a conversation with our amazing comrade, our inspirational thought leader, Alexis Pauline Gums.

1:18.0

Alexis is a prolific writer,

1:25.0

inspirational collage artist,

1:28.2

a lover, a thinker, she is one of the black feminist thinkers that I look to most to guide my own thinking, my own process.

1:38.0

She has, and yeah, Adrian, you too.

1:42.0

And she has written so many so much but we wanted to highlight a little bit of the

1:48.4

work that she's done just by way of introducing her her latest publication spill scenes from Black Feminist

1:57.6

Fugitivity just came out this last year. It's a collection of prose and poetry that is just

2:06.4

astounding. She's also the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering, Love on the Front Lines,

2:12.1

which is an anthology of writing from mothers who

2:16.7

are mothering on the margins of society.

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