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How to Survive the End of the World

Sibling Miniseries #4: Una and Michi

How to Survive the End of the World

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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The Brown Sisters continue the Sibling Miniseries with pleasure and joy mavens Una and Michi Osato, sister performer artist healers who teach burlesque for liberation. We enter their sibling reverie and leave changed and transformed.

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0:00.0

Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, so I'm Una, Aya Osacho, aka Exhotic Other, aka Norms. Those are my

0:07.4

birthless names. And I'm Michielona Osacho, aka Sister Selva, aka Lil' Willie.

0:13.9

I'm Autumn Brown, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of dragons, and healing

0:34.6

justice facilitator for social movements living on Dakota and in a Shinobi land currently

0:40.5

known as Minneapolis. And I'm Aja Marie Brown, a writer, student of miracles, and love,

0:47.4

emergent strategists, and pleasure activists living on a Shinobi land with my eyes on Durham.

0:53.8

She got to learn all things about, including whose land it is. And this is how to survive

1:01.4

the end of the world. Our podcast about learning from apocos with grace, rigor, and curiosity.

1:08.7

And now you've got everybody wondering about Durham. I know. They should wonder. So, here we are,

1:18.0

we are so excited today to be continuing in our sibling miniseries. Today we have the honor and

1:31.3

pleasure to welcome to our show Una and Michi Osacho. And I'm so excited about this because I met

1:42.3

Una many years ago back in 2007 when we briefly overlapped at this organization called the City

1:53.9

Kids Foundation in New York City. And we didn't really, we didn't get to work together. It's just

2:00.4

you're kind of working in proximity. And Una was on her way out. And I was like there for a year

2:07.8

on a short-term gig. Wow. And then we didn't see each other again for years. And the next time

2:15.0

we saw each other was in Detroit at the Allied Media Conference. Yeah. Which some of our listeners will

2:21.2

know is this at the time it was an annual, now it's by annual social justice conference for

2:28.2

organizers, media makers, and artists. And when I ran into Una years later in Detroit, Una and her

2:36.0

sister Michi were leading a workshop on burlesque dance and liberation. And I was like, hold on. Wait. Wait a second.

2:49.8

When my mind is blown, trying to understand and catch up to where you are on the liberation path. And

2:56.0

too, there's a whole other side of you that I did not know. Three, you have a sister? Hold on a second.

3:02.8

So basically my whole mind was blown. And since then, I've been following all on Instagram,

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