Body as Homeland with Leila Awadallah
How to Survive the End of the World
How to Survive the End of the World
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | I'm Autumn Brown, Front Woman of the Soul Pop Band, Autumn, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of dragons, |
| 0:24.5 | and a healing justice facilitator for social movements living on Dakota and in Ashinaabe land, |
| 0:30.5 | currently known as Minneapolis. |
| 0:33.0 | And I'm Adrienne Marie Brown, a luscious black queer witch writer Auntie, an apocalyptic love scholar, a public conversationalist and a gardener of healing ideas. |
| 0:44.1 | I live in the land of the Okanichi, Shikori, Spurure, Tespora, Ino, and Lumbi peoples, currently known as Durham. |
| 0:54.2 | And this is how to surviveive the End of the World. |
| 0:58.3 | Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity. |
| 1:04.1 | As a reminder, we have no ads. |
| 1:07.3 | We are fully listeners supportive. |
| 1:10.7 | And since you're listening, we invite you to join our Patreon for exclusive content. |
| 1:15.2 | And we are so delighted today to be closing out our art solidarity season by welcoming our final guest of the season, |
| 1:28.2 | my dear beloved friend and practice partner, |
| 1:31.9 | Leila Awadela. |
| 1:34.2 | Leila, welcome to the show. |
| 1:36.5 | Hi, thank you. |
| 1:38.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:39.7 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:41.3 | We are so delighted and honored to have you on this show. |
| 1:47.9 | Leila is a dancer, a choreographer, and a community collaborator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, |
| 1:56.2 | and sometimes in Beirut, Lebanon. She dances with roots that hold firmly to Palestine and softly to Sicily, |
| 2:04.4 | born on Turtle Island, living in an Arab-American context with mixed Mediterranean ways and waves. |
| 2:12.2 | In 2021, she founded Badi Watanip Dance Project, which she holds as artistic director alongside her sister, Noelle. |
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