Movement created a conversation while Barack Obama was president.

Movement responded to the rise of white supremacy.

Movement is the reason why Trump is holding on to the last, you know, you know, breaths of white nationalism.

Movement is the reason why the resistance had a blueprint.

Movement is the reason why Stacey Abrams could run in Georgia in 2018.

Movement is the reason why there are more black women mayors than ever before in the history of this country. 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,

anti-extrottanger, 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.

And we are so excited today because we have some very special guests who are going to guide us through how to engage in the electoral process in this corrupt-ass country.

And I thought to start off, I would read this quote from Octavia Butler that speaks about kind of the times we're in and the kind of leadership that might come from those times.

She says, When a parent might come from those times.

She says, when a parent stability disintegrates,

as it must, God is change, people tend to give in

to fear and depression, to need and greed. When no influence is strong enough to unify people, they

divide, they struggle one against one, group against group, for survival, position, power.

They remember old hates and generate new ones.

They create chaos and nurture it.

They kill and kill and kill until they are exhausted and destroyed, until they are conquered

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