Back in the day when Adrian Marie Brown was in high school, she wrote an anonymous

advice column in the school newspaper called Aw Shucks. And the advice column was really cute because basically there were two people

giving advice and one was called awe and the other was called shucks and

whatever the question was usually the person who was

awe was like giving really sweet advice that was like actually helpful and whoever was writing Shucks would give,

like, it would be like getting advice

from Kidfury and Crystal on the Reed.

So in that spirit, we are launching a new segment on our show called Aw Shucks where Adrian and

Autumn give y'all advice straight out of the 90s.

Enjoy. I'm Autumn Brown, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of dragons, and a healing justice

facilitator for social movements living in rural Minnesota.

And I'm Adrian Marie Brown, author of Emergent Strategy, co-editor of Octavia's Brood,

writer, facilitator, Auntie Extraordinaire, Dula, and pleasure activist living in Detroit.

And this is How to Survive the End of the World.

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

Ah, shucks!

That works.

Okay, that'll do.

All right, so this is our first ever Aw Shucks.

Advice episode.

Exactly.

That's very exciting. So we are going to do this question today. What do you think is necessary to prepare for the next 10 years,

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