Let the Ancestors Speak

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We want you to know more about who we are. We thought one way to do that is to open a window on to our creative practices of writing fiction, which leads into a conversation about channeling our ancestors. We believe we're in an imagination battle right now and that we're living in a world, and in power dynamics, someone else created. So, it's our responsibility to counter-imagine what we actually want and need to create futures that are viable for more and more of us. And some of the work of creating those futures is writing fiction. -- Music by Tunde Olaniran and Blue Dot Sessions https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/ https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow

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0:00.0	She was pointing out to me that the sounds that our ancestors made as they were like jumping from ships
0:11.5	during the middle passage and drowning in the ocean are still in the ocean, right?
0:17.2	They're still in the bodies of water that we like exist in now.
0:21.2	But and so there's right it's like it's like it's like it gives me chills even to like
0:24.7	think about and and so there's this way in which like oh yeah ancestral memories are coming
0:29.3	through me and also ancestral memories didn't go anywhere. I'm Autumn Brown. I'm Adam people.
0:43.0	Thunder people.
0:45.0	Thunder people. Thunder people.
0:46.0	Thunder people.
0:48.0	Thunder people. Thunder people.
0:50.0	Last minute.
0:51.0	Last minute.
0:52.0	I'm Autumn Brown and I'm Adrian Marie Brown and this is how to survive the end of the world
0:58.9	our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.
1:05.0	In today's episode, we wanted you to know more about who we are,
1:10.0	and we thought one way to let you see us is to open the window on our creative practices.
1:14.9	In this episode we end up diving deeply into the practice of writing fiction, which leads
1:20.9	us into a conversation about channeling our ancestors.
1:25.0	We really felt it was important to have this episode early in our season
1:30.0	because we really believe that we're in an imagination battle right now,
1:34.0	that we're living in a world that someone else created,
1:37.6	in power dynamics that someone else created,
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