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How to Survive the End of the World

True Journey Is Return

How to Survive the End of the World

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Autumn and adrienne return to each other. Ursula le Guin wrote, "true journey is return", and in this conversation the sisters discuss the many ways they are returning to each other and this time, this podcast. They introduce new structures and segments for the coming season, including the Flume of Rage, Top Culture and more.

TRANSCRIPT: - https://www.dropbox.com/s/efkisqka5o2quwz/HTS%20-%20True%20Journey%20is%20Return.pdf?dl=0

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TOP CULTURE

Autumn's picks

TV: Orphan Black

MUSIC: Billie Eilish

IG: Benny Drama

BOOK: Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

adrienne's picks

MUSIC: Cardi B - WAP feat. Megan Thee Stallion 

TV: I May Destroy You

MUSIC: Tobe Nwigwe/The Pandemic Project

IG: majimb.o

TV: P-Valley

BOOK: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins

TV: Lovecraft Country

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HTS ESSENTIALS

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0:00.0

Return is a practice. Healing rupture is a practice and we're not the only ones on this planet right now.

0:10.0

Who are dealing with rupture, who are dealing with

0:12.8

dealing with distance from loved ones who are dealing with the pain of like

0:17.1

I don't even know how to connect anymore you know because the crisis has been

0:21.9

so deep or the distance has been so long. I'm Autumn Brown, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of dragons. a And I'm Aiger Marie Brown, author of Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activist Brood, Writer, Anti-Exordinaire, Dula and pleasure activists living in Detroit.

1:05.0

And this is how to survive the end of the world.

1:10.0

Our podcast about learning from Apocalypse with Grace, Rigor, and Curiosity.

1:17.0

And we're back!

1:22.0

Oh my gosh, we're really back.

1:25.0

Oh my gosh, we're really back sister.

1:28.0

I missed you. I missed you so much.

1:30.0

I missed you so much.

1:32.0

This feels very momentous to me. It feels very big. It's very big.

1:37.4

Like it's a huge deal. I mean first of all, anything that we continue to do, I think anything that anyone does during the pandemic is a big deal.

1:45.0

Like, right?

1:46.0

The male on the couch.

1:47.0

And that would be a justifiable behavior for the entirety of this time, but you still choose to do things well and then doing something like

1:56.4

this which is it's like turning and facing what is hard and I feel like when we started this podcast,

2:05.0

it was one level of apocalyptic things and unfolding.

2:09.0

And now to be doing this podcast in the midst of this moment is huge.

2:14.6

And it just feels very different.

2:17.1

So it's a whole other level of hard.

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