FRACTAL #6: Altars as/for Your Art
How to Survive the End of the World
How to Survive the End of the World
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
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The sisters describe how and why they build altars for creation and detail recalibrated writing nooks, work laptops, writing in the tub and car, vision boards, doodles for the self and bringing their creative and familial ancestors into the mix.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Autumn Brown, front woman of the sole pop band Autumn, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of |
| 0:23.7 | dragons, and a healing justice facilitator for social movements living on Dakota and in Shannabe land, |
| 0:31.0 | currently known as Minneapolis. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Adri Marie Brown. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm a writer. |
| 0:36.3 | Let's get straight to it. |
| 0:44.6 | I live in the land of the Okunichi, Shikori, Skruri, Tuskora, Ino, and Lumbi peoples where we say, bless her heart. |
| 0:52.3 | And this is how to survive the end of the world. Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity. |
| 0:55.4 | As a reminder, we have no ads. |
| 0:57.4 | We're listeners supported. |
| 1:01.6 | You can join our Patreon for exclusive content. |
| 1:07.7 | And we are back for another one of our artistic fractal episodes where we are just giving you like tiny morsels about processes, our creative processes, |
| 1:14.4 | our artistic processes, because we're deep in them right now. And we're, this is helping us stay in |
| 1:20.3 | them, re-inspire ourselves in them and able to be able to share something with you that's |
| 1:25.6 | meaningful. So I want to start with you on this one. |
| 1:28.5 | And I would love for you to share, you know, we both have altar building practices as part of our |
| 1:34.8 | writing and creative lives. And we approach it, I think, in somewhat aligned and somewhat different |
| 1:41.5 | ways. But I'm always blown away by the altars you make for your work. |
| 1:45.0 | And I would love for you to talk a little bit about the altars you did for your album, |
| 1:49.9 | the altars you keep for your writing processes and anything else. |
| 1:54.1 | Yeah, thank you. |
| 1:54.6 | Yeah, I'm a really big believer in creating altars to our creativity. |
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