The Apocalypse We Need: #metoo and Transformative Justice Part 1

How to Survive the End of the World

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🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This episode is the first in a series of conversations about #metoo and the apocalypse of patriarchy and rape culture. In this first conversation, adrienne and Autumn share about the personal impact of the #metoo movement on our lives and the questions it is spurring in us. Content warning that this episode includes discussion of sexual violence. HEADS UP: Become a patron this month to get a limited run Apocalypse Potion, handcrafted by Dori Midnight! (If you're already a patron, you get the potion too! We'll be in touch.) http://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg - endoftheworldshow.org @endoftheworldPC

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0:00.0	This really speaks to how we value life.
0:03.2	And I think in our culture, in American culture,
0:07.3	how we value life or don't value it
0:10.6	is directly related to our
0:13.8	invisibilized history of genocide and enslavement. I'm Autumn Brown, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of dragons, and a healing justice facilitator for social movements
0:35.8	living in rural Minnesota. And I'm Adrian Marie Brown, author of Emergent
0:41.5	Strategy, co-editor of Octavia's brood, writer, facilitator
0:46.7	of Black Liberation Work, Anti- Extraordinaire, Dula, and Pleasure Activ activist living in Detroit.
0:53.4	And this is how to survive the end of the world.
0:56.6	Our podcast about learning from Apocalypse with Grace,
1:01.0	rigor, and curiosity.
1:04.6	And today we're going to be talking about some things
1:08.6	that will probably be really intense for folks to listen to, where this is going to be the first of our conversations
1:15.6	around Me Too and Times Up and the work that has been happening to bring down the patriarchy and misogyny and the
1:28.5	culture of rape culture in this country. So we know this is going to be a tender conversation. We just
1:34.1	want to let people know up front that that's the territory we're heading into.
1:37.4	Yeah. And should we start off with the quote?
1:45.0	Yeah, yeah, we found an Earth Seed verse that is actually very related to this moment that we're in.
1:52.0	Adrian, do you want to read it?
1:54.0	Sure.
1:55.0	So, Octavia wrote,
1:58.0	Civilization is to groups,
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