Sibling Miniseries #2: Naina and Navina Khanna
How to Survive the End of the World
How to Survive the End of the World
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🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The Brown sisters get to spend time with Naina and Navina Khanna, sisters who are transforming the realm of AIDS/HIV women and food justice through their organizing. Their politic is clear and compelling, and they give us powerful insight on what's unfolding in their homeland of India - see ways to get involved below (compiled/curated by DiasporaCo.)
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1. Athrout x Kashmir Box: providing daily rations AND medical supplies to Kashmir that is systematically underfunded and neglected, and currently has a ban on most NGOs ability to receive foreign funds. Athrout has found a fantastic workaround in a time of dire need.
https://www.kashmirbox.com/collections/kashmirfightscovid
2. Parivar Bay Area: partnering with on-the-ground partners across 26 locations 8 states to bring health kits and food to the Trans community - this
https://gofund.me/6c10dd07
3. Adventures Without Boundaries Foundation: organising vaccination access and support for folks with disabilities across Mumbai
https://gocrowdera.com/c/2kOLVRhc
4. People for Change: battling hunger through daily rations to the trans community and sex workers in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Sex workers are battling a complete loss of income, high HIV rates that increase susceptibility to the virus, and so many other challenges right now, these are folks we really want to rally for!
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-people-for-change
5. Khaana Chahiye: distributing meals to the most vulnerable in the city of Mumbai. Has distributed 60,000 meals so far in this phase of the lockdown.
https://fundraisers.giveindia.org/fundraisers/khaanachahiye-mumbai-is-battling-hunger-along-with-covid-19-again
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Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Otto Brown, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of dragons, and |
| 0:24.5 | the killing justice facilitator for social movements, living on Dakota and in a |
| 0:29.8 | Shinobi land currently known as Minneapolis. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Paige Marie Brown, I'm also queer. I'm a writer, a student of miracles, love, and |
| 0:43.0 | emergent strategist, and pleasure activist, and radical imaginarium, living on |
| 0:48.3 | Anishinaabe Territory, currently known as Detroit University. And this is how to |
| 0:54.3 | survive the end of the world. |
| 0:57.6 | Our podcast about learning from a populist with grace, rigor, and curiosity. And today |
| 1:04.3 | we continue our sibling mini-series with a pair of humans who I am so mored by their |
| 1:12.1 | existence, their magical, magical humans. We have for you today Nana and Naveena |
| 1:18.4 | and I think I've known them a combination of 87 years. So Nana and I met a long time ago |
| 1:26.8 | doing electoral organizing. We were there at the grounding of the League of Pistoph |
| 1:33.0 | voters and then Nana has gone on to found the Positive Women's Network and do all kinds |
| 1:40.0 | of incredible organizing for positive women. And I've gotten to witness the growth and |
| 1:47.1 | the stepping into a massive leadership in the world and watched her change the world. |
| 1:52.3 | And then Nana and I got to be in all kinds of fellowship together, but particularly |
| 1:57.1 | a very special early interdependence kind of fellowship. And we've been in scholarship |
| 2:03.5 | and study, but Nana is basically transforming the landscape of the food justice realm. |
| 2:09.4 | And I'm like, I wonder, I want to hear from you all. Like, is that how you still roll? |
| 2:13.9 | I'm like, these are just the things I know about you, but that's part of why we wanted |
| 2:18.3 | to bring you on here. And these two are siblings. They feel like twins, but have reminded me |
| 2:25.9 | that that's not true. That's not the case. And what we want to do today with you all is |
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