Stay ConnectedJoin Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown, two sisters who share many identities, as writers, activists, facilitators, and inheritors of multiracial diasporic lineages, as well as a particular interest in the question of survival, as we embark on a podcast that delves into the practices we need as a community, to move through endings and to come out whole on the other side, whatever that might be.
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Join adrienne for a tender conversation with Kristiana Rae and Johnaé Strong about how they generated family as a verb in the wake of losing the father of their children in an accident in 2021. This episode originally ran on adrienne's IG. It's offered here as a resource in our collective work of grief and love.
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adrienne gets witchy with Makani Themba who was previously on the show (6/24/21) with her brother, Robin D.G. Kelly.
adrienne and Makani discuss incanting power, the way our voices vibrate when we’re chanting, when we make ourselves on body, re-membering, Betty Shabazz, patriarchal organizing, love as the ultimate witchy force, Sonia Sanchez, the power of the medicine we’re given, using music to shape ourselves, collective playlists, Egyptian astrology, the end of the patriarchal epic, how we bend the arc of justice and understanding abundance.Makani Themba is Chief Strategist at Higher Ground Change Strategies based in Jackson, Mississippi. A social justice innovator and pioneer in the field of change communications and narrative strategy, she has spent more than 20 years supporting organizations, coalitions and philanthropic institutions in developing high impact change initiatives. Higher Ground Change Strategies provides her the opportunity to bring her strong sense of history, social justice and organizing knowledge, and deft movement facilitation skills in support of change makers seeking to take their work to the next level. Higher Ground helps partners integrate authentic engagement, systems analysis, change communications and more for powerful, vision-based change.
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Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons
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adrienne welcomes Queer, non-binary, gender expansive, Two-Spirit human, Sara Flores to Witch School. They get into hot springs, presence-ing, “where intention flows energy goes”, mother’s backyard garden, picking red berries, making magic potions, being in a safe imaginary land, sacred kink, PLEASURE, surviving target violence, midwifery, the word “midwife”, unearthing what’s behind all of this, witch hunts on Turtle Island, children feeling magic, accessing your own divinity instead of someone else’s, the secret mission of this whole season being that we all have it, being specific, the plant you need is always nearest to you, yarro, spider medicine, not wanting to knock down wasp nests and safeguarding our attention!
Sara Flores (they/them) is a midwife who strives to forward the legacy of those who protected and passed on Indigenous Sacred Technology and who see health and bodily autonomy as key aspects of individual and collective liberation. They are a Registered Nurse, Certified Nurse Midwife, and Reproductive Justice Health Nurse Practitioner by way of the cis-heteronormative, racist education model that they are determined to disrupt. Sara has experienced joy and community accountability as co-author of “Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois”, being a founding member of the Healing Clinic Collective which provides free traditional healing clinics throughout Occupied Huichin(Bay Area California), and being a member of The Intergalactic Council of Midwives, a council that enhances the spiritual fortitude of midwives.
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adrienne takes a break from our regular program to bring us a very special bonus episode with a super special guest: AUTUMN, the band! Podcast cohost Autumn Brown comes back, this time as a guest to talk about her debut EP, The Animal in You. The Brown Sisters are joined by Autumn’s brilliant collaborators Nehemiah Luckett, Merrill Garbus, and Sterling Duns. Tune in to hear adrienne interview the team about the process of producing the EP, with intimate look at each song.
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adrienne is thrilled to welcome Adaku Utah to Witch School. Baltimore born, Nigeria, Maryland, raised in Festac, Nigeria, grounded in her legacy of organizers, farmers and healers, Adaku harnesses her seasoned skills as a grassroots strategist, holistic healer, transformative facilitator, somatics coach and ritual artist as an act of love and commitment to her community. They enjoy co-cultivating strategic, sustainable, and impactful social justice leaders and organizations. For over twenty years, their work has centered on movements for radical social change, with a focus on gender, reproductive, race, youth, and healing justice. They are the co-founder of Harriet's Apothecary.
On this episode adrienne and Adaku talk about sabbatical, life beyond what we thought, abundance, the core roots of the magic we’re holding. witchwork as an expression of awe, the taste of joy, the texture of despair, the rhythm of earth seasons, the cycles of the moon, the sounds of drumming and humming and feet on land, receiving the touch of a loved one, the wisdom of ancestors from the underground railroad, mushrooms and crushing on your first babysitter.
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adrienne is joined by Southern born, Queer, Black, Bay Area based somatic healer, awakener, bodyworker, ritualist, & song weaver, MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo. They dig into setting up a witch school for your heart, fat phobia in the medical industrial complex, healing what is wounded, being a bridge, GAYTE-keeping, patriarchal bullshit, finding that divine mirror, manifesting heaven on earth, being put here to relieve suffering, the fertility blessings of Oshun, digging into our divine purpose, being the holiest expression of ourselves, pacing ourselves and so much more.
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For our first episode of 2024, join adrienne as she digs deep with the curator, scholar, critic, filmmaker, institution builder and founder of BEAUCOUP HOODOO,Shantrelle P. Lewis. They get into violent reactions to sugar, talking to our body, moon cycles, negotiating pleasure, saying you're a witch 35 times a day, being New Orleans, Hoodooism, becoming a Priestess, going to Catholic school, Philadelphia, seeing Haiti become a free republic, The Spirit of Agatha Lewis, witchcraft as freedom practice, and instructing people how to communicate with their ancestors.
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Join us for a conversation with Chani Nicholas, a best-selling author and astrologer. She and adrienne get into how astrology lives in all of us, building a world together, learning as we go, wisdom gathering, the way things could be, running a digital astrology company, and grieving fully.
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Join adrienne as she dives deep with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina. They discuss rooted energy, looking back, bruja-ness, plant magic, the Tao Te Ching, the snake skin of the way, childhood memories as stepping stones to where we are, growing up between two city parks, Mamá Tingó, being another beginning, burrowing under ground and using your unique skills and finally, figuring it out before it's too late.
Suhaly (she/they/we/us) is an Afro Dominican herbalist, artist, cultural worker, and community organizer whose work lives intentionally at the intersection of plant power and people power. Before joining the American LGBTQ+ Museum as Director of Public Programs and Partnerships in 2023, Bautista-Carolina served as Senior Managing Educator of Audience Development and Engagement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she led MetFest! and the Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence program. Bautista-Carolina is a 2021 Women in Power Fellow, an executive board member of ArtTable and Weeksville Heritage Center, and has worked in various capacities with organizations including the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Brooklyn Museum, the Laundromat Project, and Creative Time. Through her practice, Moon Mother Apothecary, Bautista-Carolina centers care, collective wisdom, and ancestral legacy, while creating spaces of agency to facilitate healing. She is based in her native home of New York City, (Lenapehoking) where she lives with her wife and their baby girl, Luna.
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Music by Tunde Olaniran, Mother Cyborg and The Bengsons
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A special bonus episode organized by Hala Alyan with adrienne maree brown, Spenta Kandawalla, Adaku Utah, Sepideh Moafi, Noor Tagouri and Layla Feghali. With gratitude to CTZNWELL.
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LEARN MORE FROM OUR HOSTS:
adrienne maree brown
https://adriennemareebrown.net/
IG: @adriennemareebrown
Hala Alyan
IG: @hala.n.alyan
Spenta Kandawalla
https://www.jaaduacupuncture.com/about
IG: @spentawalla
Adaku Utah
IG: @soularbliss
Sepideh Moafi
IG: @sepidehmoafi
Noor
IG: @noor
Layla Feghali
IG: @RiverRoseRemembrance
GO DEEPER: Here are some resources to deepen your inquiry, build your capacity and engage in embodied activism for the healing and liberation of all:
Li Beirut Herbal and Healing Guide + virtual resilience resources
Social change ecosystem framework
26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets (June 2020 update)
Caring for Ourselves as Political Warfare
A Brave Community Approach to discussing Gaza
REP Investigative Podcast Series
12-Steps of Jewish Zionists Anonymous
REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR EMBODIED CARE & ENDURANCE:
What is my/our commitment?
Where am I/we aligned/misaligned with my commitment?
What conditions are keeping me/us from alignment?
What do I/we need to stop/start practicing to get in formation with my commitment?
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