Decolonize the Body

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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We are Earthseed. We are flesh—self aware, questing, problem-solving flesh. We are that aspect of Earthlife best able to shape God knowingly. We are Earthlife maturing, Earthlife preparing to fall away from the parent world. We are Earthlife preparing to take root in new ground, Earthlife fulfilling its purpose, its promise, its Destiny. - Octavia Butler, Earthseed verses Our bodies, right now at this moment are both colonizers on this planet and our bodies are also colonized spaces on this planet. In this episode we get into talking about why getting in a right relationship with our bodies is key to getting in right relationship with the planet. Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions - endoftheworldshow.org https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow @endoftheworldPC

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0:00.0	It's too hot to sit around wondering like,
0:03.2	how does this, you know, do my thighs look okay to someone
0:05.6	once and then suffocate if I think that, you know?
0:08.6	And just like as soon as you start to step out of that thinking, it immediately appears ludicrous.
0:15.1	And then it makes you turn around and be like,
0:16.6	OK, who is protected by this?
0:19.3	Yes. I'm Autumn Brown and I'm Adam Brown and I'm Adrian Marie Brown and this is how to
0:30.1	survive the end of the world. Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.
0:38.0	Octavia Butler's work is a place where the body is reimagined over and over.
0:46.0	And science fiction as a genre is constantly asking us to consider which bodies can survive, which bodies do we value.
0:54.5	Octavia wrote so much about this and one of the things that she wrote
0:59.3	are the Earth Seed verses which are part of the Parable of the sower and the parable of the talents, and
1:04.6	there are verses of a belief system that the protagonist feels into.
1:10.6	And I just want to share a quote right now.
1:14.0	We are Earth Seed.
1:15.0	We are Flesh, Self-aware,
1:18.0	Questing, problem-solving Flesh.
1:20.0	We are that aspect of Earth Life best able to shape God knowingly.
1:25.0	We are Earth Life maturing, Earth Life preparing to fall away from the parent world.
1:32.0	We are Earth Life preparing to take root in new ground, Earth Life
1:36.2	fulfilling its purpose, its promise, its destiny. In this verse, Octavia Butler and her protagonist are asserting a directness in the
1:55.0	human body and the planet Earth, the human body in relationship with the planet.
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