Welcome back to how to survive the end of the world, a podcast about learning from

apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity. We are back, sort of. Adrian and I continue to have a lot going on.

So while we are recording brand new content for the second half of our 2019 season,

we wanted to come back from our break with a recording from the archives. In this episode you will hear a

speech I gave in 2018 when I was invited to offer the keynote address at the

Indigenous Women and Women of Color Student Summit, an event that is curated and hosted every

other year by the Women's Center at the University of Minnesota.

The theme of the 2018 summit was This World is Ours to Build.

We hope you enjoy this blast from the not too distant past,

focused on how we build a cooperative and holistic future.

Stay tuned on our podcast feed for upcoming episodes about the solidarity economy, elections,

black love, and more. Thanks for listening.

I'm really used to white people wanting to tell me about myself. I'm really used to white people wanting to correct me. And in fact, I'm so

used to it that I can see it coming before it happens, right? You know what I mean, right? You can see the facial expression,

the body language, you know, and so this woman, she steps out in front of me.

She kind of moves right at the last minute

and she can see that I'm like, I'm not stopping.

Like here and there are some chairs.

And the first thing she says to me,

the first words out of her mouth are, I don't think you should ever give a talk like that idea.

Unless you have a plan for everyone to sit at their tables and talk about it afterwards and have a process around it.

Because otherwise it's just too painful.

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