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How to Survive the End of the World

Sibling Miniseries Finale: adrienne and Autumn (interviewed by Dani McClain) Pt. 2

How to Survive the End of the World

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Brown sisters realized halfway thru this series that they had to be interviewed, and the interviewer had to be Dani McClain (journalist, author, mother, caretaker and chosen sibling). The sisters remember things differently and tenderly, in perhaps their most vulnerable public conversation to date. This is part 2 of that conversation. 

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, I'm Adrienne, and this is part two of our conversation with Danny McClain,

0:20.1

where she is giving us the sibling interview.

0:23.3

If you didn't hear the first part, you probably should.

0:26.2

Go back and listen to that first.

0:28.1

It's one big conversation, and we're just sharing in two parts because it lasted for quite

0:33.7

a while.

0:34.7

All right.

0:35.7

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0:40.0

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0:43.6

So you want to check it out patreon.com slash into the world show.

0:48.2

So here's some more Danny with Autumn and I.

0:54.6

So it's funny, Adrienne, you are one of the first people who I met who really like emphasized

1:01.3

your identity as being biracial because when not where I grew up, mixed people were black.

1:07.4

Like that was just kind of how I what was going on in the 90s in Cincinnati, in like rural

1:14.4

Cincinnati where I was from.

1:15.4

And so you were one of the first people I met who pushed back and said, I'm not black.

1:20.8

My mom is white and I don't reject her identity in my own identity.

1:25.4

Can you guys talk about kind of your own racial identity formation and what it's meant in

1:31.1

your personalizing and your movement work to be biracial or black by racial or however

1:35.5

you identify?

1:36.9

Yeah.

1:37.9

It's, well, it's so interesting to hear that now to be like, oh, yeah, that's, that's

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