If you're miserable in your job, you need to be a part of the revolution.

You need to be a part of revolutionary work. You don't hate Mondays, you hate

capitalism. You hate that part. That part, all right?

I'm Autumn Brown, a middle manager at a major U.S. financial institution, longing to

be free to pursue a master's in urban design, living on Dakota and in a

Shinabe land, currently known as Minneapolis. I'm A.J. Marie Brown, a German folk

who is having to navigate the entire world and learning that people are germs.

I'm also a science fiction writer, a student of miracles and love, an emergent

strategist and pleasure activist living in the land of the Shakuri, Spirure,

Tuscarora, and Lundi people. People are germs and this is how to survive the end

of the world. Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.

I'm like, welcome back, sniffly right now. So that's what's happening as I was

around here, like the literal germs are inside your body. I look very cute. You do look

really cute with your bonnet. I'm like a bonnet and a sniffly nose is like a

whole other level of intimate beauty. It's a whole it's a whole look. People don't always know about it.

I'll take a picture and you can use that as the visual for this episode of How Cute I Look.

People are all going to go look. Okay, girl, I'm doing really good. I am doing good. I am,

I'll talk about this more in our flume of awe, but I am hosting friends in my home and it's my

first guest that are not family members staying in my new house. There's just something so fun

about in the wake of two years of pandemic time, getting to welcome people into my space,

and just the delight also of watching the way the kids are reacting to.

You know, it's like, okay, now we're sharing our space with other adults, and we have things to

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