Bending Towards the Future with Toshi Reagon

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Brown Sisters are coming to you live from the Majestic Theater in Boston, in a gorgeous event sponsored by Emerson College. We welcome back to the show the brilliant musician, composer and activist Toshi Reagon to discuss the Parable Opera and what Octavia Butler’s work can teach us about finding each other and bending towards a just future. music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg - www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow www.endoftheworldshow.org/ www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/ @endoftheworldPC @adriennemaree @meansagittarius --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message

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0:00.0	We're not buying anything for the holidays this year in my family.
0:05.0	We're putting all our money towards, you know, frontline activists and artists and institutions, and we're not buying anything.
0:15.4	We don't need anything.
0:17.1	We have everything. Good evening. I'm Eliano Uyoa and I am the president of the Emerson College
0:28.5	Skin Tones. On behalf of Emerson College's Office of Intercultural Student Affairs, the Social Justice
0:36.2	Centers, a flawless brown artist collective for self-identifying women of color and Arts Emerson,
0:41.5	I would like to welcome you to the live taping of Adrian Marie Brown and Autumn Browns,
0:45.8	How to Survive the End of the World Podcast featuring special guest, Toshi Reagan.
0:50.0	Oh! We are excited to be joined today by three special guests.
0:57.0	Adrian Marie Brown is the author of Pleasure Activism, the Politics of Feeling Good, and
1:05.0	Emergent Strategy shaping change, changing worlds.
1:08.1	Yes.
1:10.5	She is a writer, a social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer, and Dula living in Detroit.
1:16.0	Autumn Brown is a mother organizer, theologian, artist, and facilitator.
1:21.0	Autumn brings over 10 years of experience facilitating organizational and strategic
1:25.3	development with community-based and movement organizations and training organizers in consensus
1:30.2	process, facilitation, and racial justice.
1:35.0	And last but not least, we have the incomparable singer, songwriter, and musician
1:39.3	Toshi Reagan, who has been a mainstay in the entertainment and music industry for more than 30 years.
1:45.0	Toshi is considered a one-woman celebration of all that's dynamic, progressive, and uplifting in American music. Reagan's musical adaptation with her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagan of the Sci-Fi
2:02.0	Afro-Futurist masterpiece, Octavia E Butler's
2:05.0	Parable of the Sewer brings together over 30 original musical anthems and recoreums drawn from 200
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